Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advises on a variety of environment-related transactions. This encompasses environmental risk assessment, regulatory advice on sustainability and climate change, as well as involvement in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and lending matters, for which practice co-head Mike Isby in New York is a key contact, routinely advising private equity clients and portfolio companies on complex environmental transactions and environmental regulatory compliance. The team also includes Toby Chun, co-head of the practice from the Washington DC office, who routinely assists clients with the full range of environmental aspects of complex and often cross-border transactions.
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Key clients
- AGCO
- Bank of America
- Blackstone Inc.
- BofA Securities, Inc.
- BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
- Centerbridge Partners
- Chile’s Sudamericana, Agencias Aéreas y Marítimas S.A.
- Citigroup
- Dell Technologies Inc.
- DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
- Goldman Sachs
- Global Infrastructure Partners
- Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.
- HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
- IFM Investors
- ITC Holdings Corp.
- Johnson Controls International
- J.P. Morgan
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- KKR
- KSL Capital Partners
- Mars, Incorporated
- Mattress Firm Group
- MB Aerospace
- Melrose Industries PLC
- MUFG Securities Americas Inc.
- New Mountain Capital, LLC
- Stone Point Capital LLC
- Vivint Smart Home, Inc.
- Wells Fargo Securities
Work highlights
- Assisted underwriters, led by BofA Securities, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, with a registered offering of $31 billion in Notes by Pfizer, Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte. Ltd.
- Advised a consortium led by Blackstone Inc. in a transaction in which private equity funds managed by Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Emerson Electric Co.’s Climate Technologies business, in a transaction valuing Climate Technologies at $14 billion.
- Assisted DigitalBridge Group, Inc. and IFM Investors in their approximately $11 billion acquisition of Switch, Inc.
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Michael Isby, Toby Chun