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Transportation

Simpson Thacher counsels clients across the spectrum of transportation sectors—from airline to automotive, freight to logistics, railroad to shipping to toll roads.
75+
Transactions across the transportation, roads, bridges and ports sector in the past five years alone (2020 – 2024)

#1 Legal Advisor in Transportation M&A Globally
Infralogic, 2024

Working collaboratively across the full array of our corporate practice areas, we advise clients involved in transportation on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, banking and credit matters, joint ventures, lease financing matters and project and structured financing transactions.

Our transportation transactions include:

  • Stonepeak in its $7.4 billion acquisition of Textainer Group Holdings, which was named the 2024 Transport Acquisition of the Year in North America by IJInvestor, and its acquisitions of logistics assets strategically based near Port Houston and the Port of Jacksonville
  • Stonepeak in the acquisition and related financing of 9 logistics assets totaling 1.8 million square feet strategically based near the Port of Jacksonville
  • Stonepeak in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Air Transport Services Group, Inc.
  • Stonepeak in its $6.2 billion financing acquisition of Teekay LNG Partners including approx. 36 million common units owned by Teekay Corp. and 100% of Teekay Corp.’s ownership in Teekay LNG Partners L.P.’s, Teekay GP L.L.C.
  • KKR in its acquisition of The Parking Spot from an affiliate of Green Courte Partners, LLC.
  • KKR in the acquisition and related financing of Hitachi Transport System
  • KKR in their acquisition of Dawsongroup plc, made as part of KKR’s Global Climate Strategy to support the electrification of Dawsongroup’s fleet
  • Depot Connect International in the sale of the tank truck assets of Linden Bulk Transportation
  • TIP Group in the sale of its Canadian business, TIP Canada, to Transportation Equipment Network
  • Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) in its $8.4 billion sale to affiliates of Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC and in the majority investment by Grupo México Transportes in G&W’s CG Railway joint venture
  • Grupo Romero in the sale of a 50% stake in Trabajos Maritimos S.A. (“Tramarsa”) to Global Infrastructure Partners
  • Carrix in the debt financing for its purchase of Ceres Terminals from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III

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