Simpson Thacher represented Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BXMT) in connection with its public offering of 6,900,000 shares of class A common stock, inclusive of shares...
Blackstone Mortgage Trust’s $223 Million Common Stock Offering
Planet Fitness’ $1.275 Billion Securitized Financing Facility
Planet Fitness, Inc., one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the United States, has completed a financing transaction involving the...
Vista Equity Partners’ Acquisition of Alegeus Technologies Holdings Corp.
BofA Merrill Lynch and TripleTree acted as financial advisors in the transaction, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett acted as legal advisor to Alegeus. Kirkland & Ellis...
MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc.’s $170.3 Million Acquisition of ATBancorp
Piper Jaffray & Co. acted as financial advisor and Shapiro Bieging Barber Otteson LLP served as legal counsel to MidWestOne. Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. acted...
Spin-Off of Frontdoor from ServiceMaster
Simpson Thacher recently represented the initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, in the Rule 144A / Regulation S offering of $350 million aggregate principal...
MGM’s $400 Million Second Lien Term Loan Facility
Simpson Thacher represented JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, in connection with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.’s (MGM) $400 million second lien term loan facility. The credit facility...
TSG Partner Company Duckhorn Wine Company’s Acquisition of Kosta Browne
Ropes & Gray advised TSG Consumer Partners, a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on the branded consumer sector, and its partner company Duckhorn Wine Company,...
Seritage Growth Properties’s $2 Billion Term Loan Facility
Simpson Thacher represented Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company of Nebraska in providing a $2 billion senior secured term loan facility (the “Term Loan Facility”) to a...
Alinda’s $350 Million acquisition of a 49% interest in SemGroup Corporation’s Maurepas Pipeline
Simpson Thacher advised investment funds managed by Alinda Capital Partners (“Alinda”) in connection with Alinda’s acquisition of a 49% interest in SemGroup Corporation’s Maurepas Pipeline. The...
Waters Corporation’s Acquisition of Prosolia DESI Technology
Ropes & Gray advised Waters Corporation, a leading specialty measurement company, in its acquisition of the exclusive rights to Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) technology for all...
American Enterprise Bank’s Acquisition of Wintrust
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, LLP acted as AEB’s transaction counsel, and Schiff Hardin LLP served as transaction counsel to Wintrust. Wintrust Financial Corporation’s subsidiary Northbrook...
Carlyle Partners VII’s $18.5 Billion Fundraising
Simpson Thacher represented The Carlyle Group L.P. (“Carlyle”) in the establishment of Carlyle Partners VII, an $18.5 billion fund that makes majority and strategic minority investments...