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Simpson Thacher Female Partners Guide Top Private Equity Deals of 2018
07.31.18
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Corporate Partners Elizabeth Cooper, Celia Lam and Marni Lerner advised on three of the five largest private equity transactions of the first half of 2018, according to data from Mergermarket.
The data highlighted a Blackstone-led consortium’s $20 billion partnership agreement with Thomson Reuters for Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk Business as the largest PE deal of 1H 2018. Ant Financial’s $14 billion Series C equity financing was ranked as the second largest transaction and KKR’s $9.9 billion acquisition of Envision Healthcare was ranked fourth. The transaction teams were led by Elizabeth, Celia and Marni, respectively.
The deals were also featured in a recent Law360 article titled “11 Firms Sculpt 5 Largest PE Deals Of 2018’s 1st Half.”
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