Linda Barrett has a broad practice as a member of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. She has experience advising a variety of clients, private equity funds and public companies, on executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in mergers, takeovers, sales, spin-offs, IPOs and other transactions. Linda’s clients include Silver Lake Partners, Alibaba, Alegeus Technologies, KKR, Ellucian, Hellman & Friedman, Dell, JPMorgan and KeyCorp.
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Work Highlights
- Dell’s acquisition of EMC
- Alibaba's initial public offering
- KeyCorp’s $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara
- Yahoo’s $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr
- Experience prior to rejoining Simpson Thacher includes representing:
- Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. V’s $6.6 billion acquisition of Social Finance, Inc.
- Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II’s $3.7 billion acquisition of Clover Health Investments Corp.
- Builders First Source in its $5.5 billion stock acquisition of BMC Stock Holdings
- GS Acquisition Holdings Corp. in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Vertiv Holdings Inc.
Education
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Rutgers School of Law, 2002 J.D.
Editor, Rutgers Law Review
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Hofstra University, B.A.
Admissions
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California 2005
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New York 2003
Linda Barrett is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s New York office and a member of the Firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Linda concentrates her practice in the areas of executive compensation, employee benefits and ERISA. She has extensive experience advising a wide variety of clients, including private equity funds and publicly held corporations, with respect to the executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in corporate mergers, takeovers, sales, spin-offs, initial public offerings and other corporate transactions.
Select representations include advising on:
- Silver Lake Partners’ $250 million investment in Red Ventures
- Dell’s acquisition of EMC
- Alibaba's initial public offering
- Alegeus Technologies’ sale of its Payment and Communication Solutions business
- Initial Purchasers in a $500 million senior notes offering by VeriSign
- J.P. Morgan Securities in a secondary offering of common shares by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.
- KeyCorp’s $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara
- Yahoo’s $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr
Select experience prior to rejoining Simpson Thacher includes representing:
- Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. V’s $6.6 billion acquisition of Social Finance, Inc.
- Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II’s $3.7 billion acquisition of Clover Health Investments Corp.
- Builders First Source in its $5.5 billion stock acquisition of BMC Stock Holdings
- GS Acquisition Holdings Corp. in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Vertiv Holdings Inc.
Linda received her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in 2002, where she was Editor of Rutgers Law Review. She received her B.A. from Hofstra University.