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Simpson Thacher Advises Texas Pacific Group in $1.04 Billion Consumer Packaging Acquisition

05.15.06

Simpson Thacher is representing Texas Pacific Group in its acquisition of the consumer packaging division of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation for approximately $1.04 billion in cash. The Smurfit Stone consumer packaging division employs approximately 6,600 employees in the United States and Canada and includes folding carton, multiwall bag, flexible packaging, label, contract packaging and lamination businesses.

The Simpson Thacher team includes David Sorkin, Andrew Smith, Andrew Sossen, Atif Azher and Ellen Hong (M&A), James Cross and Brian Steinhardt (Credit), Alvin Brown, Jamin Koslowe, Michael Richman and Andrew O’Brien (ECEB), Julie Levy (Labor), Krista McManus (Real Estate), Michael Isby and Timothy Mulvihill (Environmental), Lori Lesser, Mark Solomon and Matthew Katz (IP), Steven Todrys and Tamika Cushenberry (Tax), and paralegal Maximillian Amster.