Corporate Partner Alan Klein was featured in a Law360 article on advising some of the year’s largest deals, steering $120.2 billion in transactional enterprise value during the first half of 2016. Alan, along with fellow Simpson Thacher colleagues, helped advise ChemChina on its $43 billion acquisition of Swiss pesticides company Syngenta, Ireland-based Tyco in its $36 billion combination with Johnson Controls in an inversion transaction, ADT Corp. in its $15 billion acquisition by Apollo and Microsoft in its $26.2 billion play for LinkedIn.
In the article, titled “Atty Credits Close Ties For $120B Worth Of M&A Work,” Alan credits the Firm’s success on its ability to build strong, long-standing relationships. “There’s a bit of happenstance in the fact that each of them have done major transactions in the first half of the year. But our relationship with them and the fact that we were asked to assist them was not happenstance,” Alan said. “These transactions are really the culmination of many, many people here at the Firm across a wide range of disciplines over a long period of time proving ourselves over and over again to each of these clients and developing their confidence in us and developing their trust,” he adds.
Along with Alan, Law360 also recognizes Shaolin Luo and Chris May as advisers on the ChemChina deal; Elizabeth Cooper on the Tyco deal; Anthony Vernace on the ADT deal; and Anthony Vernace, Greg Grogan, Bill Brentani, Lori Lesser, Jonathan Goldstein and Joyce XU on the Microsoft deal.
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