Gregory W. Conway is the Managing Partner of Simpson Thacher’s London office and is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee.  His practice focuses on merger and acquisition transactions as well as international corporate finance transactions.  Mr. Conway regularly advises private equity clients such as First Reserve, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners in connection with acquisitions and consortia arrangements, high yield debt financings and initial public offerings and other exits.  For example, Mr. Conway has represented KKR in connection with the acquisition of Pets at Home and Northgate Information Solutions in the U.K., NXP B.V. (the Semiconductors Business of Philips NV) and Koninklijke Vendex in the Netherlands, Legrand in France, and Kion Group, MTU Aero Engines and Wincor Nixdorf in Germany, among other transactions. Mr. Conway has acted for the issuer or selling shareholder in connection with the initial public offerings of Demag Cranes AG, Zumtobel AG, MTU Aero Engines AG, Alea Group Holdings plc, Wincor Nixdorf AG and Willis Group Holdings.  Mr. Conway has also acted for various investment banks as initial purchasers and underwriters of high yield debt, convertible bonds and equity offerings.

Mr. Conway joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 1987.  He was based in the Firm’s London office from 1990-1993 and then returned to New York, where he became a partner in 1997.  He received his B.A. from Brown University in 1984 and his J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law in 1987, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  He has been a panelist at several IBA and PLI conferences on private equity and leveraged buyouts.  He is the co-author of “Counseling Directors in a Spin-Off” prepared for the 9th Tulane Corporate Law Institute (1997).  Mr. Conway serves on the Boards of Travelers Insurance Company Limited and Travelers Syndicate Management Limited as well as various not-for-profit organizations. 

Publications

•	Counseling Directors in a Spin-off, (Co-Author), 9th Tulane Corporate Institute, 1997
•	Due Diligence in Offerings by Non-U.S. Issuers, PLI Program on International Securities Markets, 1995
•	Non-U.S. Issuers to Become Subject to EDGAR
•	SEC Adopts Exemptions for Cross-Border Tender Offers, Exchange Offers and Rights Offerings
•	SEC Launches “Aircraft Carrier” Release: Proposed Major Changes in Regulation of Securities Offerings in the United States
•	SEC Proposes Exemptions for Cross-Border Tender Offers and Rights Offerings
•	Amendments to Regulation S: New Restrictions on Offshore Equity Offerings by U.S. Issuers

Admissions

•	New York 1988

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 1987 J.D. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
•	Brown University, 1984 B.A. With Honors International Relations