Sean Dougherty

Sean Dougherty is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department, focusing his practice on capital markets transactions. He represents clients in numerous industries, including fintech, infrastructure, information technology, healthcare, retail and others. Sean regularly represents issuers, private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and underwriters on various financings, IPOs, preferred equity issuances, restructurings, follow-on offerings, and other securities transactions.

Sean’s representative transactions have included:

• Apollo in the organization, SEC registration, closing and operation of its infrastructure conglomerate, AIC
• Blackstone, New Mountain and one of their large SaaS portfolio companies in the company’s dual track IPO and acquisition
• Silver Lake in its acquisition of convertible notes issued by Unity Software for its acquisition of ironSource
• Oaktree Infrastructure Fund in its acquisition of preferred shares of Watco companies
• Laborie Medical / AB Investor in various preferred share acquisition transactions
• Mattress Firm in its proposed IPO and merger agreement with Tempur Sealy
• Flutter and FanDuel Group in the U.S. platform’s proposed IPO
• TPC in its restructuring
• Initial purchasers in the restructuring of LATAM airlines
• Initial purchasers/underwriters in three concurrent offerings by Carnival Corporation
• Initial purchasers in the inaugural green bond and other offerings by the owner of Circle K
• CBRE Acquisition Holdings in its SPAC IPO and de-SPAC
• TradeStation in its proposed de-SPAC

Sean received his J.D., cum laude, in 2013 from Fordham University School of Law. He received his B.A. in 2004 from University of Vermont, Phi Beta Kappa.