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Simpson Thacher was named a Mergers & Acquisitions “Practice Group of the Year” for 2024 by Law360. The Firm was recognized for its work on “some of the biggest deals that reshaped the technology and media landscapes in the past year,” including advising Cisco Systems in its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk, guiding Paramount in its $28 billion merger with Skydance Media, and advising Karuna Therapeutics in its $14 billion acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Eric Swedenburg, Head of Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, credited the Firm’s success over the past year to its deep and wide-ranging experience as well as the forward-looking, strategic perspective it brings to transactions: “The breadth of our experience combined with our ability to provide clients with holistic commercial advice is what has made us the go-to law firm for clients on their most important deals," he said.

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