Wall Street leader Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has made a rare London hire after recruiting high-profile Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Ben Spiers to boost its M&A practice.
Spiers’ practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate restructurings, particularly within the TMT sector. Recent mandates include advising Hewlett-Packard Enterprises on the sale of its software business for $8.8bn to UK tech firm Micro Focus, and acting for SoftBank this summer on its £23.4bn deal to acquire UK tech flagbearer ARM Holdings, the largest public M&A deal in the UK in 2016 so far.
