Alden Millard

Alden Millard is Chair of Simpson Thacher’s Executive Committee, the governing body of the Firm. He has served for more than a decade as a member of the Executive Committee and previously served a three-year term as one of the Firm’s Co-Administrative Partners. Alden also serves as a member of the Firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and its Women’s Committee.

Alden regularly represents leading leveraged buyout sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with a variety of financings, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations and refinancings. Alden’s primary clients include The Blackstone Group and First Reserve Corporation, and their respective portfolio companies. Alden has also performed significant work for several other leading LBO sponsors, and he regularly represents public and privately held corporations in connection with acquisition financings.

Alden’s experience includes representation of:

• Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman in the financing for their majority investment in Medline Industries, Inc.
• Blackstone in the financing for its $5 billion acquisition of The Chamberlain Group from The Duchossois Group
• Blackstone in connection with the financing for its $20 billion partnership with Thomson Reuters for the acquisition of Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk Business 
• The E.W. Scripps Company in the debt financing related to its $2.65 billion acquisition of ION Media  
• First Reserve and Crestwood Midstream Partners LP in a series of financings for the acquisitions of Quicksilver Gas Services and Arrow Midstream Holdings and for the merger of Crestwood and Inergy Midstream, L.P.
• Blackstone and Hilton Worldwide Holdings in connection with a comprehensive refinancing, including $8.6 billion of senior secured bank facilities
• Blackstone and its portfolio companies in the financings for dozens of acquisitions and refinancings, including those for AlliedBarton Security Services, Apria Healthcare, Bumble, Catalent Pharma Solutions, Gates Corporation, GCA Services Group, Liftoff, Performance Food Group, Pinnacle Foods, RGIS, SeaWorld Entertainment, Service King, Sphera, Summit Materials, Tradesmen International, Travelport, Vivint and Vungle
• First Reserve and its portfolio companies in the financings of multiple acquisitions and refinancings, including those for AFGlobal Corporation, Blue Racer Midstream, CHA Consulting, Dixie Electric, Dresser Utility Solutions, Eagle Infrastructure Services, The Goldfield Corporation, LineStar Integrity Services, Refuel, Saxon Energy Services, TNT Crane & Rigging, TPC Group and Trillium Flow Technologies, and the financings for First Reserve’s investments in First ECA Midstream, Plains All American Pipeline and Glencore Xstrata