Gillian Emmett Moldowan

Gillian Emmett Moldowan is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Based in the New York office, she advises companies, boards of directors, executives and investors across a spectrum of transaction-related compensation and benefits matters, with emphasis on issues arising in mergers and acquisitions for public companies and private equity firms, as well as initial public offerings and other capital markets transactions. She also advises on governance, securities laws and disclosure related to public company compensation matters and insider transactions, including beneficial ownership reporting, interactions with regulators and shareholders and the negotiation of executive employment and separation arrangements.

Chambers has described Gillian as “exceptionally smart and highly talented. She is excellent at thinking into the future and what the impacts of taking a certain route will be down the road. She is unquestionably a terrific lawyer,” and as “super responsive and so nice to work with. She is practical and can answer the most complex questions. A true expert.”

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Altice USA in its sale of 49.99% of its LightPath fiber enterprise business to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners for an implied enterprise value of $3.2 billion
• American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings in its acquisition of NYSE-listed automotive components manufacturer Metaldyne Performance Group Inc
• Anglo American plc on the combination of its nuGen™ Zero Emissions Haulage Solution with First Mode Holdings
• Ardagh Group S.A. in connection with numerous transactions including its: formation of a joint venture, combination of its Food & Specialty Metal Packaging business, combination of its metal packaging business with a special purpose acquisition company and acquisition of a manufacturing facility from a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
• Bluespring Wealth Partners, a subsidiary of Kestra Financial, Inc., in its acquisitions of various independent investment advisors
• Boston Scientific Corporation in its: pending acquisition of Axonics Inc.; acquisition of Apollo Endosurgery; and acquisition of Baylis Medical Company for $1.75 billion
• Chesapeake Utilities Corporation in its acquisition of Florida City Gas
• Cisco Systems Inc. in its acquisition of Singularity Networks
• Citi in its divestiture of foreign banking assets
• Ecopetrol on its joint venture with Occidental Petroleum Corporation to develop 97,000 net acres in the Permian Basin
• Evolute Capital, LLC, in various acquisitions including Enabling Technologies Corp. of Florida
• Exscientia plc on its pending business combination with Recursion
• GE Healthcare on the acquisition of IMACTIS, a provider of computed tomography interventional guidance
• General Electric in its combination of GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes and subsequent transactions with Baker Hughes
• Genmab A/S in connection with its initial public offering and listing of ADSs on the Nasdaq
• Goldman Sachs and Everstone Group in their acquisition of a majority stake in Infostretch
• Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. in its merger with Support.com
• J.F. Lehman & Company in various acquisitions and dispositions, including Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc., Lone Star Disposal, Narda-MITEQ and Narda Safety Test Solutions
• Kroll Bond Rating Agency in its acquisition by Parthenon Capital Partners
• Liberty Global plc in its purchase of full control of Telenet Group Holding NV
• Magris Resources Canada in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Imerys Talc America Inc., Imerys Talc Vermont Inc. and Imerys Talc Canada Inc.
• Passage Identity, Inc. in its acquisition by AgileBits Inc.
• Prairie Farms in connection with its acquisition of certain assets of Dean Foods under a bankruptcy court approved sale procedure
• Stone Point Capital in its sale of Hodges-Mace to Alight Solutions
• Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited in its sale of a 6.3% stake in Virtu Financial, Inc.
• TPG Inc. on executive compensation and related governance and securities matters in connection with its $1 billion initial public offering and in connection with its $2.7 billion acquisition of Angelo Gordon
• Wafra Inc. in connection with its launch of Global Container International Holdings LLC
• On executive compensation, disclosure and governance advice to corporate and financial institution clients, including Antares Capital, Bank of America, Bridgewater, ConocoPhillips, Energizer, IMAX, Morgan Stanley, Paramount and TPG

Gillian has been recognized among the leading executive compensation lawyers in New York by Chambers USA since 2021, and she is an active speaker on topics related to her practice.  

Gillian received her J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 2007, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, a George Washington Scholar and a member of The George Washington Law Review. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 2002, Phi Beta Kappa.