Carleigh Rodriguez

Carleigh Rodriquez is Co-Head of the Firm’s Environmental Practice. Carleigh advises private equity and corporate clients on environmental issues arising in the full array of commercial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, securities and financing transactions, bankruptcies and restructurings, among others. Her work extends across a broad range of U.S. and international industries, from real estate, technology and commercial, to energy, infrastructure, waste, chemicals, manufacturing and other industrials. In the transactional context, Carleigh identifies, evaluates and manages environmental liabilities and risk, including managing environmental due diligence and consultants, negating environmental indemnities and other contractual language and procuring environmental insurance, and coordinates environmental regulatory approvals. She also provides pre-deal counseling and manages post-closing resolution of environmental issues. Recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a leading lawyer in Environment: Transactional, Carleigh provides practical and commercial advice for managing environmental liabilities and risks.  

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners in their approximately $3 billion acquisition of TRIUMPH Group, Inc.
• Oaktree Capital Management and Richards Manufacturing Co., in the sale of Richards Manufacturing Co. to TE Connectivity plc for approximately $2.3 billion
• Carlyle in its $3.8 billion acquisition of the kidney care segment of Baxter International Inc.
• JBT Corporation in its €3.5 billion acquisition of Marel hf
• TPG Rise Climate in its acquisition of Olympus Terminals
• Celanese Corporation in its $11 billion acquisition of DuPont’s mobility and materials business and its $1.15 billion acquisition of ExxonMobil’s Santoprene® business
• GTCR in its $1.6 billion acquisition of ADT’s Commercial fire and security segment
• HanesBrands on the sale of its Champion business to Authentic Brands Group for $1.2 billion
• Peak Rock Capital in its approximately $788 million acquisition of the dental segment (“HuFriedyGroup”) of STERIS plc
• Huntsman Corporation in the sale of its Textile Effects business to Archroma for approximately $718 million, its $300 million acquisition of CVC Thermoset Specialties, and the sale of its chemical intermediates businesses to Indorama Ventures for approximately $2.1 billion

Prior to her career in law, Carleigh spent several years advising on federal and state coastal and ocean management and policy matters with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Carleigh received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2013, cum laude, where she was Managing Editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. She received her M.E.M. in Coastal Environmental Management from Duke University in 2004 and her B.A. in Biology & Environmental Studies from Vanderbilt University in 2000. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.