Tony Y. Rim

Tony Rim is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Practice, where he focuses on corporate finance transactions.  For more than a decade, Tony has regularly advised public and private companies, private equity sponsors and other investors as well as financial institutions in connection with the full spectrum of equity and debt capital raises – including IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, high-yield and leveraged finance transactions, among others.  His clients span across several industries, including technology, media & telecom, financial services, fintech, healthcare, energy and consumer & retail.

In addition, Tony helps clients structure and execute innovative and complex hybrid capital solutions to fit their needs, including multi-lien capital structures and private placements of structured products such as equity-linked securities and convertible preferred stock, for general corporate purposes as well as in special situations involving liability management or restructurings.  Tony also has significant experience in acquisition financings and provides securities law advice in connection with M&A transactions, and he regularly advises corporate clients on securities laws, corporate governance and other general matters.

Tony’s experience has included advising:

• Hovnanian Enterprises in its multi-lien secured debt financing transactions;
• First Data in a variety of capital structure management transactions, culminating in the largest IPO of 2015, and on the financing aspects of its merger with Fiserv in 2019 (consisting of over $9.5 billion of secured, unsecured and subordinated debt offerings, $3.5 billion private placement of equity investment by KKR, and $8.9 billion of registered secondary equity offerings);
• HCA Healthcare in its SEC-registered offerings of over $8.6 billion of high-yield debt and over $4.4 billion of common equity;
• Dell Technologies in its return to public markets on the NYSE through its Class V tracking stock exchange transaction, and subsequent offerings of $4.5 billion of senior first lien notes;
• Masonite International in its nearly $1 billion of senior notes offerings in the aggregate, as well as the direct listing of its common stock on the NYSE;
• Pyxus International in its prepackaged chapter 11 financial restructuring and subsequent debt exchange transactions; and
• Underwriters in investment grade debt offerings valued at over $35 billion in the aggregate for Berkshire Hathaway, Broadcom, FedEx and Texas Instruments, among others.

In addition, Tony has advised issuers and underwriters in connection with:

• IPOs and follow-on equity offerings by Weber, Aramark, SeaWorld Entertainment, Planet Fitness and Mister Car Wash, among others;
• High-yield debt offerings by AMC Entertainment, Hub International, Cimpress, Crescent Energy and Home Point Capital, among others;
• Acquisition financing transactions in connection with LBOs of regional sports networks and Fox College Sports by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Solera Holdings by Vista Equity Partners, among others; and
• Spin-offs and related financing transactions, including Ingersoll Rand’s spin-off of Allegion, ServiceMaster’s spin-off of American Home Shield and Aramark’s spin-off of Vestis.

Tony received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2011, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and received his B.A., cum laude, from UCLA in 2008, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  Tony joined Simpson Thacher in 2011 and serves on the Firm’s Recruiting Committee.  He is admitted to practice in New York.