Carol Daniel

Carol Daniel is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s London office and a member of the Firm’s Corporate Department. Carol’s primary area of concentration is capital markets, an area in which the Firm has a preeminent U.S. and international presence. Carol advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on complex capital markets, leverage finance and other corporate finance transactions. She has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors in a variety of transactions across capital markets, including IPOs, high-yield debt offerings and hybrid capital transactions, as well as banking and leverage finance transactions. Carol has represented a range of private equity firms and financial sponsors and their portfolio companies, including TDR Capital, I Squared Capital, KKR, Blackstone and Wren House.

Carol has been recognized as a “Leading Partner” in her field by The Legal 500 UK. Her recent transactions include:

• TDR Capital and I Squared Capital in its £2 billion equivalent acquisition financing of Aggreko comprised of high yield senior secured notes, senior notes, English law governed revolving credit facility and New York law governed term loan
• Aggreko in its subsequent acquisition and add-on term loan financings
• Energia, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, in its high yield senior secured notes offering in and subsequent refinancing transaction
• TDR Capital and I Squared Capital in its €1.7 billion equivalent acquisition financing of Applus
• TDR Capital in its acquisition financing of LeasePlan Corporation and its follow-on debt offerings totalling over €1.85 billion (aggregate)
• Constellation, a portfolio company of TDR Capital, in its leverage financing and subsequent refinancing comprising of an issuance of senior secured notes, senior term loans and second lien term loans
• TDR Capital in its acquisition financing of Hurtigruten, including an offering of €455 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes and a €65 million revolving credit facility agreement
• Lowell, a portfolio company of TDR Capital, in its high yield Senior Secured Notes offerings and subsequent private placement of senior secured notes
• KKR in its €5.5 billion equivalent acquisition financing of Telecom Italia’s landline network assets comprising of 12 concurrent Euro and USD exchange offers
• Q-Park, a portfolio company of KKR, in its tender offer and high yield senior secured notes offerings
• Voyage Care, a portfolio company of Wren House, in its senior secured notes offering
• NorthWall Capital in Synamedia’s notes offerings

Carol started her career at Simpson Thacher in 2007 and was made partner in 2016. She received her B Com and LL.B from the University of New South Wales in 2005.