Brandon Adoni

Brandon Adoni is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Public Company Advisory Practice. He primarily advises companies on their compliance with U.S. securities laws, U.S. stock exchange listing requirements and general corporate governance matters. Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Brandon was a Vice President on Blackstone Inc.’s Real Estate Legal and Compliance team, where he primarily counseled the real estate unit’s externally managed public vehicles. Prior to focusing his practice on public company matters, he had a broad capital markets practice where he represented both issuers and underwriters on a wide range of capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary and follow-on equity offerings and various debt offerings.

Experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes representing:

• Cerberus Capital Management in its $435 million PIPE investment in Avon Products, Inc.
• Nexstar Media Group, Inc. in various securities matters related to its approximately $4.6 billion acquisition of Media General, Inc., including a $900 million offering of senior notes
• Cott Corporation in its $575 million high-yield notes offering, consent solicitation regarding outstanding notes and exchange offer to register outstanding notes
• Infor, Inc. in its approximately $2.5 billion (equivalent) high-yield offerings
• Renewable Energy Group in $335 million underwritten sale of common stock and $550 million “green bond” offering
• Penn Virginia Corporation in various securities matters related to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
• Multiple issuers of notes in note redemptions, satisfactions and discharges of indentures, automatic CUSIP exchanges and other related matters

Brandon received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2011. He received his B.S. from New York University – Leonard N. Stern School of Business in 2008.