Louis H. Argentieri

Lou Argentieri is a Partner in the Firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. He advises public and private companies, financial institutions and private equity sponsors on a wide range of corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, carve-outs, strategic investments and corporate governance matters. Lou’s practice spans a variety of industries, including financial services and technology.

Lou’s representative experience while at Simpson Thacher includes:

• AGCO in its $2 billion acquisition of Trimble Ag assets and technologies through a joint venture
• Apple Leisure Group in its sale to Hyatt Hotels Corporation for $2.7 billion
• A consortium led by Blackstone in the acquisition of a majority stake in Emerson Electric’s Climate Technologies business for $14.0 billion
• Blackstone in its $4.6 billion acquisition of Cvent
• Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust in its $3.7 billion acquisition of Resource REIT
• Charlesbank in connection with its $250 million commitment to Rise Growth Partners
• Corsair Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in Aurora Payments
• EverBank in its pending acquisition of Sterling Bank & Trust from Sterling Bancorp Inc. for $261 million
• Silver Lake in its pending $1.7 billion acquisition of Zuora, Inc., in partnership with GIC
• Snap One in its acquisition by Resideo Technologies in a $1.4 billion transaction
• Stonepeak in its $2.4 billion acquisition Intrado Corporation’s Safety business
• TD Bank in its $13.5 billion acquisition of First Horizon (terminated)
• TransUnion in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Neustar
• U.S. Bank in its $8 billion acquisition of Union Bank from MUFG, and related carve-out of assets remaining with MUFG
• World Insurance Associates in connection with the $1 billion debt and equity investment by Goldman Sachs

Lou received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard University.