Mark A. Brod

Mark Brod is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department, where he concentrates on capital markets transactions involving U.S. and foreign companies. Mark regularly represents companies, investment banks and sponsors on IPOs, PIPE offerings, other equity offerings, high yield financings, investment-grade debt offerings and other capital-raising transactions. In addition, he regularly advises clients with respect to SEC matters, corporate governance, U.S. securities laws and general corporate matters.

Recent matters on which Mark has worked include:

• The Travelers Companies: issuer’s counsel on $750 million offering of investment grade notes
• Roche Holdings: underwriters’ counsel on $5 billion offering of debt securities
• Humana: underwriters’ counsel on $1.25 billion investment grade notes offering
• AstraZeneca: underwriters’ counsel on $5 billion notes offering
• KKR Infrastructure Conglomerate LLC: company counsel in connection with its Form 10 registration statement
• KKR Private Equity Conglomerate LLC: company counsel in connection with its Form 10 registration statement
• CBRE Acquisition Holdings: company counsel on its $402.5 million IPO and business combination with Altus Power, Inc.
• Alliant Insurance: initial purchasers’ counsel on $1.25 billion senior secured high yield notes offering
• Rakuten Group: initial purchasers’ counsel on $450 million senior notes offering
• Ambipar Emergency Response in connection with its NYSE listing and business combination with HPX Corp.
• Equifax: underwriters’ counsel on $1 billion notes offering
• KfW: underwriters’ counsel since 2013 on SEC registered offerings of debt securities collectively raising over $100 billion (equivalent)
• True Wind Capital and its portfolio company Nebula Caravel Acquisition Corp. in its business combination with Rover Group, Inc.
• True Wind Capital and its portfolio company TWC Tech Holdings II Corp. in its merger with Cellebrite DI Ltd.
• Verisk Analytics: underwriters’ counsel on a $500 million notes offering
• EJF Acquisition Corp.: company counsel on its $250 million IPO and its business combination with Pagaya Technologies Ltd.

Mark received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Duke University. Mark was a Fulbright Scholar in Osaka, Japan, and also studied for one year in Berlin, Germany. Mark is admitted to practice in New York.