Kristy Fields is Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Houston office, and a member of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Kristy focuses her practice on compensation and benefit-related issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, new and joint ventures and other corporate transactions. She regularly advises private equity firms, public companies and senior executives on the design, negotiation and implementation of employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections and management participation in buyouts and new ventures.
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Work Highlights
- Blackstone Real Estate Partners X in its $4 billion proposed acquisition of Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.
- Paramount Global in its proposed $28 billion merger with Skydance Media, LLC
- Blackstone Real Estate Partners X in its $10 billion acquisition of Apartment Income REIT Corp.
- Cisco Systems, Inc. in its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk Inc.
- Blackstone Core+ perpetual capital vehicles in their $12.8 billion acquisition of American Campus Communities
Education
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New York University School of Law, 2013 J.D.
cum laude; New York University Law Review, Senior Executive Editor
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Sam Houston State University, 2008 M.A. Forensic Clinical Psychology
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University of California at San Diego, 2005 B.A. Cognitive Science
Kristy Fields is Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Houston office, and a member of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Kristy focuses her practice on compensation and benefit-related issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, new and joint ventures and other corporate transactions. She regularly advises private equity firms, public companies and senior executives on the design, negotiation and implementation of employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections and management participation in buyouts and new ventures.
Kristy’s recent clients have included Blackstone, New Mountain Capital, Goldman Sachs, and others such as:
- Blackstone Real Estate Partners X in its proposed $4 billion acquisition of Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.
- New Mountain Capital in its majority investment in Salute Holdings, LLC
- New Mountain Capital in its strategic investment in Datassential
- BharCap Partners, LLC in its acquisition of Electronic Merchant Systems, LLC
- Private Equity business of Goldman Sachs Alternatives in its acquisition of a majority stake in TAIT from affiliates of Providence Equity Partners and other existing investors
- Paramount Global in its proposed $28 billion merger with Skydance Media, LLC
- Blackstone Real Estate Partners X in its $10 billion acquisition of Apartment Income REIT Corp.
- Cisco Systems, Inc. in its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk Inc.
- Blackstone Core+ perpetual capital vehicles in their $12.8 billion acquisition of American Campus Communities
- KKR in its $1.62 billion acquisition of Simon & Schuster from Paramount Global
- New Mountain Capital’s $2.45 billion acquisition of PerkinElmer’s Applied Food and Enterprise Services businesses
- Manchester Energy’s partnership with EnCap Flatrock Midstream to develop a large scale, diversified midstream business
- Corsair in its acquisition of a majority stake in HungerRush
Kristy received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego in 2005 and her M.A. in Forensic Clinical Psychology from Sam Houston State University in 2008. She received her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2013 where she was a Senior Executive Editor of New York University Law Review. She is admitted to practice in Texas and New York.