Simpson Thacher represented KKR & Co. Inc. (“KKR”) in connection with a series of transactions involving KKR and KKR Holdings L.P. (“KKR Holdings”), an entity through which certain current and former KKR employees held interests in KKR, which resulted in the creation of a new parent holding company for KKR’s business and the acquisition of KKR Holdings by the new holding company.
The Simpson Thacher team included Joe Kaufman, Sung Bum Cho, Ignacio Perez, Yelim Hyon, Asha Amin, Wang Chen, Jieun Lim and Haley O’Connor (Capital Markets); Katie Sudol, Matthew Gabbard and Haixuan Yang (M&A); Marcy Geller and Jasmine Hay (Tax); David Rubinsky and Alisa Tschorke (Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits); Jennifer Nadborny and Arielle Katzman (Public Company Advisory Practice); Justin Lungstrum, Jessica O’Connell and Abdul Fasinro (Credit); Jason Herman (Funds); Étienne Renaudeau, Kelly Karapetyan and Henry Llewellyn (Antitrust); and Ian C. Ho, David Yun, Jiazhen Yan and Shirley Foo (Corporate – Hong Kong and Beijing).