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UK/global turnover: |
£27m/£415.4m |
UK/global PEP: |
£1.35m/£1.35m |
UK/global revenue per lawyer: |
£563,000/£537,000 |
UK revenue per partner/equity partner: |
£2.7m/£2.7m |
Global revenue per equity partner: |
£2.6m |
UK/global number of equity partners: |
10/158 |
UK/global number of partners: |
10/158 |
| UK/global number of lawyers: |
48/774 |
| UK number of staff: |
84 |
| UK/global leverage ratio: |
3.8/3.9 |
SIMPSON THACHER& Bartlett’s London turnover
rose by 30 per cent in 2005, mainly off the back of
private equity instructions from clients such as
Blackstone Partners. The firm also secured Kohlberg
Kravis Robert as a client following the hire of star
leveraged finance partner Tony Keal from Allen &
Overy.
Leanly staffed in Europe (it has just 10 partners in
London), Simpson Thacher nevertheless appears
regularly on major transactions and the loyalty of its
clients is unparalleled. For example, the firm advised
the Apax-led consortium on its winning €10.2bn
(£7.02bn) bid for Danish telecoms operator TDC in
Europe’s largest leveraged buyout to date, proving
the firm’s dominance in acquisition finance.
Meanwhile, in New York the firm represented
Swiss Re in the World Trade Center insurance
trial, one of the largest and most high-profile cases
of the past five years. But it is for corporate that
Simpson Thacher is best known. Swiss Re was
again the firm’s client on one of this year’s biggest
deals – the insurer’s £4bn takeover of GE Insurance
Solutions.
Simpson Thacher operates a modified lockstep.
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