Greg Grogan is a Partner in the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group.  His practice focuses on executive compensation, employee benefits, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters, particularly in connection with private equity and leveraged buyout transactions. Mr. Grogan also advises numerous boards of directors and compensation committees with regard to CEO succession matters, including recently at Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Hilton Hotels, Apria Healthcare and Pinnacle Foods.  In addition, he frequently works with senior executives of public and private companies with respect to their compensation arrangements.

Mr. Grogan's transaction experience includes:

• Blackstone’s acquisitions of Equity Office Properties, Hilton Hotels, Sea World Parks (f/k/a Busch Entertainment), GSO Capital, Apria Healthcare, Performance Food Group, RGIS, Pinnacle Food Group, Birds Eye Foods, Alliant Insurance, Travelport, AlliedBarton, Bayview Financial, ReAble Therapeutics/DJO, and China National Bluestar;
• Investment by Carlyle, Centerbridge and Blackstone in a newly chartered federal savings bank that acquired the banking operations of BankUnited FSB from the FDIC;
• Anheuser-Busch's all-cash merger with InBev (advising Anheuser's outside directors);
• Tyco International’s pending part-stock, part-cash merger acquisition of Broadview Security (f/k/a Brink’s Home Security);
• Bowne & Co.’s pending all-cash merger sale to R.R. Donnelley & Sons;
• J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Water Asset Management’s pending take-private acquisition of Southwest Water Company;
• Ameriprise’s pending acquisition of Bank of America’s long-term asset management business Columbia Management;
• AOL's acquisition of Bebo;
• Dongwon's acquisition of StarKist from Del Monte;
• S.A.C. Private Capital's acquisition of Taiwan's Cosmos Bank;
• Linde Group's sale of its retail gas operations to Airgas;
• LPL Financial Services’ sale to TPG and Hellman & Friedman and LPL's acquisition of Pacific Life's broker-dealer business;
• financing of Cerberus Capital's acquisition of Chrysler; Warner Chilcott’s acquisition of P&G’s pharmaceutical business; and Kraft Foods’ acquisition of Cadbury; and
• Blackstone's initial public offering.

Prior to joining the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group, Mr. Grogan had extensive experience advising principals and financial advisors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, including the independent directors of Fox Entertainment in connection with News Corp’s unsolicited tender offer for Fox; Coors in its merger of equals with Molson; the Santo Domingo family in its sale of Latin American brewer Bavaria S.A. and Washington Mutual in the sale of its consumer finance business to Citigroup.  He also represented the Firm's private equity clients KKR and Blackstone in numerous M&A transactions.

Mr. Grogan is active in the Firm’s corporate governance practice, having advised JPMorgan Chase, Toronto Dominion, Time Warner, Lehman Brothers, KKR, Blackstone, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Alpharma and others in connection with Sarbanes-Oxley, NYSE, executive compensation and governance matters.

Mr. Grogan joined Simpson Thacher in 2000 and became a partner in 2007.  He received his J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1998, where he was Senior Editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business, and his B.A., in Journalism and Political Science, from California State University, Northridge, in 1995.

Publications

•	IRS Issues Final Regulations Relating to Employee Stock Purchase Plans and the Reporting Requirements for Employee Stock Purchase Plans and Incentive Stock Options
•	IRS Establishes Corrections Program to Cure Deferred Compensation Defects Under Code Section 409A
•	December 31, 2009 Deadline Approaches for Amendments to Comply with Section 162(m) and to Correct Certain Section 409A Operational Failures
•	Federal Reserve Issues Proposed Incentive Compensation Guidance for All Banking Organizations
•	Treasury Issues New Employee Compensation and Corporate Governance Standards for TARP Recipients
•	Navigating the Swift Currents of “Underwater” Stock Options
•	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Provision of Premium Subsidy for COBRA Beneficiaries
•	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Restrictions on Employee Compensation Arrangements of TARP Recipients
•	New IRC Section 457A Prohibits Deferral of Compensation Paid by Offshore Funds and Certain Partnerships
•	Reminder: Transition Relief for Code Section 409A Deferred Compensation Arrangements Expires on December 31, 2008
•	Update: IRS Issues Transition Relief, but Affirms Its New Position under Section 162(m) Regarding “Good Leaver” Provisions
•	Client Alert: IRS Reverses Position under Section 162(m) Regarding “Good Leaver” Impact on Performance-Based Compensation Provisions
•	Client Alert: Transition Relief for Code Section 409A Deferred Compensation Arrangements Extended Until December 31, 2008
•	Client Alert: Transition Relief for Code Section 409A Deferred Compensation Arrangements Partially Extended Until December 31, 2008, Subject to Key Limitations
•	Fundamentals of ESOPs
•	Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, SEC Initiatives and NYSE Listing Standards: A Compliance Checklist
•	SEC Adopts Final Rules Concerning Executive Compensation and Related Disclosure
•	SEC Amends Form 8-K Disclosure Requirements and Accelerates Filing Deadline
•	Corporate Alert: SEC Amends Form 8-K Disclosure Requirements and Accelerates Filing Deadlines
•	Corporate Governance Alert: SEC Proposes Rules Granting Large Long-Term Shareholders Access to the Company's Proxy Statement for Director Nominees
•	Corporate Governance Alert: Preparing for the SEC's Proxy Access Proposals
•	Corporate Governance Alert: Complying with the SEC's Final Disclosure Rules Regarding the Director Nomination Process and Shareholder-Director Communications
•	Corporate Governance Alert: SEC Proposes Rules To Provide Shareholders Access To Company Proxy Statements for Director Elections
•	CEO/CFO Certification Update: New Section 302 Certification Text and New Exhibit Requirements for Section 302 and 906 Certifications
•	Application of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to Voluntary Filers of Periodic Reports with the SEC
•	SEC Adopts Auditor Independence, Audit Committee Communication and Record Retention Rules Pursuant to Sarbanes-Oxley
•	CEO/CFO Certification Update: SEC Proposes Procedures for Certifications Under Sections 302 and 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
•	SEC Proposes Rules Pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Financial Experts, Codes of Ethics, Internal Controls Assessments and Improper Influence on Auditors
•	SEC Adopts New CEO / CFO Certification Rules Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
•	Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Supplemental Memorandum No. 2: The Insider Lending Provisions
•	Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Supplemental Memorandum No. 1
•	Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: CEO/CFO Certifications, Corporate Responsibility and Accounting Reform

Admissions

•	New York 2001

Education

•	Georgetown University Law Center, 1998 J.D. cum laude; Journal of Law and Policy in International Business, Editor, Senior Editor, 1996 - 1998
•	California State University, Northridge, 1995 B.A.