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Simpson Thacher Transaction Wins IFLR M&A Deal of the Year

03.24.10

The Firm was recently awarded the M&A Deal of the Year at the International Financial Law Review Europe M&A Awards dinner on March 22, 2010 for our role representing the majority shareholders of Paris Re in the $2 billion sale of Paris Re to Partner Re.  The deal was recognized for the complexity involved with the plurality of jurisdictions (France and Bermuda) and because it was a rare multi-jurisdictional stock-for-stock takeover in France.  To read more about this transaction, please click here