Based in the Firm’s London office, Jenny Leung is Counsel in the Corporate Practice. Jenny focuses on matters across the energy and infrastructure industries. She advises private equity funds, infrastructure funds and corporate clients on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border private M&A and take private transactions, carve-outs and bolt-ons, joint venture and consortium transactions and restructurings, among other corporate matters.
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Work Highlights
- KKR on multiple engagements, including in connection with its recommended offer to acquire ContourGlobal plc for total offer consideration of £1.75 billion; recommended offer to acquire John Laing Group plc for total offer consideration of £2 billion; 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, and Wella in its acquisition of Briogeo; and various sales of minority stakes in Viridor’s energy from waste business to sponsors and infrastructure investors, including Equitix and TCorp
- Oakley Capital in its acquisition of Construction Testing Solutions from Palatine and certain minority shareholders and acquisition of Phenna Group from Inflexion and certain minority shareholders
- Viridor on multiple engagements, including in its acquisition of the Westfield Energy Recovery Facility alongside Equitix; acquisition of the rights to develop, construct and operate the Thameside Energy Recovery Facility at Tilbury Docks and reaching financial close; the complex carve-out of its collections business and the majority of its recycling locations and its sale to Biffa plc; and the sale of its landfill and landfill gases business to Frank Solutions
- Zayo Group in connection with the separation and carve-out of its European business and its global network business
- John Laing in its acquisition of a portfolio of assets comprising Towercom, Valley Healthcare and The Convention Centre Dublin from the Irish Infrastructure Fund
- Silver Lake in its sale and business combination of Global Blue with Far Point Acquisition Corp
- A consortium including GIP, OTPP, Brookfield, SNAM and GIC in its investment in the gas pipeline assets of The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Education
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University of Sydney, 2016 LL.M.
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University of Sydney, 2013 LL.B.
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University of Sydney, 2011 Bachelor of Commerce
Jenny Leung is Counsel in the Corporate Practice. Jenny focuses on matters across the energy and infrastructure industries. She advises private equity funds, infrastructure funds and corporate clients on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border private M&A and take private transactions, carve-outs and bolt-ons, joint venture and consortium transactions and restructurings, among other corporate matters.
Jenny’s recent work highlights include:
- KKR in connection with its recommended offer to acquire ContourGlobal plc for total offer consideration of £1.75 billion
- KKR in connection with its recommended offer to acquire John Laing Group plc for total offer consideration of £2 billion
- KKR in its 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 billion, and Wella in its acquisition of Briogeo
- Oakley Capital in its acquisition of Construction Testing Solutions from Palatine and certain minority shareholders and acquisition of Phenna Group from Inflexion and certain minority shareholders
- Viridor (a portfolio company of KKR) in its sale of minority stakes in Viridor’s energy from waste business to sponsors and infrastructure investors, including Equitix and TCorp
- Viridor in its acquisition of the Westfield Energy Recovery Facility alongside Equitix
- Viridor in its acquisition of the rights to develop, construct and operate the Thameside Energy Recovery Facility at Tilbury Docks and reaching financial close
- Viridor in the complex carve-out of its collections business and the majority of its recycling locations and its sale to Biffa plc
- Viridor in the sale of its landfill and landfill gases business to Frank Solutions
- John Laing in its acquisition of a portfolio of assets comprising Towercom, Valley Healthcare and The Convention Centre Dublin from the Irish Infrastructure Fund
- Zayo Group (a portfolio company of EQT and DigitalBridge) in connection with the separation and carve-out of its European business and its global network business
- Silver Lake in its sale and business combination of Global Blue with Far Point Acquisition Corp
- A consortium including GIP, OTPP, Brookfield, SNAM and GIC in its investment in the gas pipeline assets of The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
- CSL in its exclusive license of a novel late-stage gene therapy candidate for hemophilia B patients from uniQure
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in 2020, Jenny practiced at a top-tier Australian law firm in Sydney and spent time on secondment to a magic circle firm in Hong Kong.
Jenny received her LL.M. from the University of Sydney in 2016. She received her LL.B. in 2013 and her Bachelor of Commerce in 2011 from the University of Sydney.