Mark Myott

Mark Myott is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice with broad experience representing corporate and private equity clients in complex and high-profile transactions. He frequently advises clients in connection with leveraged buyout transactions, mergers, spin-offs, recapitalizations, restructurings, growth equity and venture capital investments and other complex transactions across a wide variety of sectors, with numerous representations in the technology and healthcare sectors.

Recently, Mark was named among 2022’s “Lawyers on the Fast Track” by The Recorder, honoring the next generation of legal leaders aged 40 and under in California. He was also recognized by Law360 as a “Rising Star” in Mergers and Acquisitions for 2022.

Mark’s experience includes the representation of:

• Silver Lake Partners in its announced acquisition of Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. at an equity value of $13 billion and enterprise value of $25 billion
• Cohesity in its announced acquisition of Veritas’ data protection business
• Hellman & Friedman in multiple transactions, including its majority investment in Medline Industries with Carlyle and Blackstone; acquisitions of Ultimate Software, Checkmarx and SnapAV; combination of ABRa Auto Body & Glass and Caliber Collision; minority strategic investment in PointClickCare Technologies; and sales of Openlink to ION and Renaissance Learning to Francisco Partners
• EQT in multiple transactions, including in its acquisitions of: Parexel for $8.5 billion, Cast & Crew, Certara, Heritage Environmental Services, Radius Global Infrastructure, Storable, Waystar with CPPIB, and Zeus Industrial Products; its investment in Cirba solutions; and its sale of Press Ganey
• Blackstone in its acquisition of a majority stake in MagicLab (the parent company of Bumble), acquisition of a significant minority equity interest in Walker Edison and investments in Chainalysis and Cylance
• Silver Lake in SoFi’s $8.65 billion merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. V, a SPAC
• Silver Lake in investments in Carta, Entrata, Plaid, Clari and Unity Software
• Dell Technologies in the spin-off of VMware, as well as in VMware’s earlier acquisition of Pivotal Software
• PPD in its $17.4 billion acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Apollo in its $5 billion acquisition of The Michaels Companies
• Warburg Pincus in its investments in Clearwater Analytics, Helix, Silk Road Medical and Outset Medical
• TCV in its strategic partnership with Sportradar and acquisition of a controlling interest in Watermark Insights
• Waystar in its acquisitions of eSolutions and Patientco

Mark received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.S. from Gannon University. He is admitted to practice in New York and California.