Sunny Cheong is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Capital Markets Practice. She represents issuers, private equity sponsors and investment banks on a wide range of securities transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary offerings of common and preferred equity, high yield debt offerings, acquisition financings, liability management and other complex structuring matters. Sunny also has extensive experience in convertible securities transactions and private investments in public equity (PIPEs). She represents clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, retail and technology. Sunny’s client representations include KKR, Silver Lake, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Acelity, Avantor, National Vision and PTC.
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Work Highlights
- KKR in its issuances of US Dollar and Japanese Yen- denominated senior notes
- Affiliates of KKR as selling stockholders in secondary offerings of common stock of US Foods, AppLovin and Coty
- Affiliates of Silver Lake in various PIPEs in convertible notes of Splunk, Global Payments, Unity Software and Zuora
- Academy Sports and Outdoors in its IPO, secondary offerings and high yield debt refinancing
- National Vision in its IPO, secondary offerings and convertible note offering
- Avantor in its offering of mandatory convertible preferred stock, concurrently with its IPO of common stock
- Cooper-Standard Automotive in a comprehensive set of refinancing transactions, including a backstopped private offering of secured notes, an exchange offer and consent solicitation
- PetSmart in high yield notes issuances to finance its acquisition of Chewy and also in connection with BC Partners-led consortium’s acquisition of the company
- Global Medical Response in its preferred equity issuance to finance its combination with American Medical Response and in its high yield notes issuance to finance KKR’s acquisition of the company
- Envision Healthcare in its high yield notes offering in connection with KKR’s acquisition of the company
- Nationstar Mortgage in high yield notes issuances in connection with its merger with Mr. Cooper
- Issuers in convertible note offerings for Bentley Systems, K2M Group and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust
Education
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University of Chicago Law School, 2009 J.D.
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Yale University, 2005 B.S.
Sunny Cheong is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Capital Markets Practice. She represents issuers, private equity sponsors and investment banks on a wide range of securities transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary offerings of common and preferred equity, high yield debt offerings, acquisition financings, liability management and other complex structuring matters. Sunny also has extensive experience in convertible securities transactions and private investments in public equity (PIPEs). She represents clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, retail and technology.
Sunny’s representative transactions have included advising:
- KKR in its issuances of US Dollar and Japanese Yen- denominated senior notes
- Affiliates of KKR as selling stockholders in secondary offerings of common stock of US Foods, AppLovin and Coty
- Affiliates of Silver Lake in various PIPEs in convertible notes of Splunk, Global Payments, Unity Software and Zuora
- Academy Sports and Outdoors in its IPO, secondary offerings and high yield debt refinancing
- National Vision in its IPO, secondary offerings and convertible note offering
- Avantor in its offering of mandatory convertible preferred stock, concurrently with its IPO of common stock
- Cooper-Standard Automotive in a comprehensive set of refinancing transactions, including a backstopped private offering of secured notes, an exchange offer and consent solicitation
- PetSmart in high yield notes issuances to finance its acquisition of Chewy and also in connection with BC Partners-led consortium's acquisition of the company
- Global Medical Response in its preferred equity issuance to finance its combination with American Medical Response and in its high yield notes issuance to finance KKR's acquisition of the company
- Envision Healthcare in its high yield notes offering in connection with KKR's acquisition of the company
- Nationstar Mortgage in high yield notes issuances in connection with its merger with Mr. Cooper
- Issuers in convertible note offerings for Bentley Systems, K2M Group and KKR Real Estate Finance Trust
- Initial purchasers in convertible note offerings for IMAX, CONMED and Uniti Fiber
Sunny received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.S. from Yale University. She is admitted to practice in New York.