James Campisi is a Partner in the Firm’s London Corporate team. He advises private equity firms and corporate clients on a variety of complex, cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take private transactions and auction processes. His clients have included private equity firms such as Apax Partners, Blackstone, KKR, CVC and Silver Lake Partners.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in 2019, James practiced at a top-tier Australian law firm in Sydney.
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Work Highlights
- CVC in its acquisition of M Group Services
- Apax Partners in their agreement to sell their interest in idealista to Cinven for €2.9 billion
- Silver Lake-backed Software AG in the sale of StreamSets and webMethods to IBM for €2.13 billion
- Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, in partnership with the Benetton family, in its takeover of Atlantia SpA, valuing the company at approximately $59 billion
- KKR on multiple engagements, including the disposal of a majority stake in A-Gas to TPG Rise Climate, the £1.75 billion take private acquisition of ContourGlobal plc, the acquisition of Hyperoptic and the acquisition of a majority stake in Coty Inc.’s professional beauty and retail hair businesses (now known as Wella), with an enterprise value of $4.3 billon
- Apax Partners on multiple engagements, including the €5.1 billion consortium acquisition of T-Mobile Netherlands, the sale of Engineering Group and the €1.3 billion sale of idealista to EQT
- Blackstone on multiple engagements, including the take private acquisitions of Industrials REIT Limited and Hansteen Holdings plc and its investment in Currencies Direct
- BC Partners and GardaWorld in the unsolicited £3.7 billion takeover offer for G4S plc
Education
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University of Technology, Sydney, 2015 LL.B. (Hons.)
First Class Honors
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University of Technology, Sydney, 2015 Bachelor of Business
with Distinction
James Campisi is a Partner in the Firm’s London Corporate team. He advises private equity firms and corporate clients on a variety of complex, cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take private transactions and auction processes. His clients have included private equity firms such as Apax Partners, Blackstone, KKR, CVC and Silver Lake Partners.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in 2019, James practiced at a top-tier Australian law firm in Sydney.
James’ experience includes the representation of:
- CVC in its acquisition of M Group Services
- Apax Partners in their agreement to sell their interest in idealista to Cinven for €2.9 billion
- Silver Lake-backed Software AG in the sale of StreamSets and webMethods to IBM for €2.13 billion
- Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, in partnership with the Benetton family, in its takeover of Atlantia SpA, valuing the company at approximately $59 billion
- KKR on multiple engagements, including the disposal of a majority stake in A-Gas to TPG Rise Climate, the £1.75 billion take private acquisition of ContourGlobal plc, the acquisition of Hyperoptic and the acquisition of a majority stake in Coty Inc.’s professional beauty and retail hair businesses (now known as Wella), with an enterprise value of $4.3 billon
- Apax Partners on multiple engagements, including the €5.1 billion consortium acquisition of T-Mobile Netherlands, the sale of Engineering Group and the €1.3 billion sale of idealista to EQT
- Blackstone on multiple engagements, including the take private acquisitions of Industrials REIT Limited and Hansteen Holdings plc and its investment in Currencies Direct
- BC Partners and GardaWorld in the unsolicited £3.7 billion takeover offer for G4S plc
- Bridgepoint Group plc in its £907 million IPO on the London main market
- EQT Infrastructure in its $4.6 billion acquisition of First Student and First Transit from FirstGroup plc
- Melrose Industries PLC in its demerger of the GKN Automotive, GKN Powder Metallurgy and GKN Hydrogen businesses from the Melrose group into a new independent holding company, Dowlais Group plc
- KKR in its combination of NielsenIQ and GfK SE