Joshua Ford Bonnie is a partner in Simpson Thacher's Corporate Department. Mr. Bonnie is active in the firm's Public Company Advisory Practice and regularly advises a number of public companies on general corporate and securities law matters. Mr. Bonnie also routinely represents issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.

Mr. Bonnie advised The Blackstone Group L.P. on its $4.8 billion initial public offering and on its concurrent sale of $3 billion of non-voting common units to a sovereign wealth fund established by the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Bonnie also advised MasterCard Incorporated on its $2.6 billion initial public offering and Accenture Ltd on its worldwide reorganization and $1.9 billion initial public offering. The initial public offerings of Blackstone, MasterCard and Accenture were the largest U.S. IPOs of 2007, 2006 and 2001, respectively. Mr. Bonnie also represented FXCM Inc. (2010), DynaVox Inc. (2010), Evercore Partners Inc. (2006), Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (2005) and Cohen & Steers, Inc. (2004) on those firms’ initial public offerings. Mr. Bonnie also advised The Carlyle Group on the 2007 and 2010 investments in that firm by Mubadala Development Company, the Abu Dhabi-based strategic development and investment company.

Mr. Bonnie has also represented major investment banking firms, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.  Mr. Bonnie was featured in the American Lawyer’s “Dealmakers of the Year” in 2008, is recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as one of the leading capital markets practitioners in the United States and is endorsed by PLC Which Lawyer.  Chambers USA 2011 says “[a]s a young up-and-coming name, Joshua Ford Bonnie is considered one of the sector's future stars. Numerous sources refer to his ‘tremendously knowledgeable and calm demeanor’ as well as his ‘practical sense and deep understanding of his client's issues.’”

Mr. Bonnie graduated from the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law where he was an editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law. After serving as a law clerk to the Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr. (E.D. Va.), Mr. Bonnie joined Simpson Thacher in 1996.

Publications

•	Going Public: A Guide for North American Companies to Listing on the US Securities Markets
•	The Impact on Private Equity and Hedge Funds of the Financial Regulatory Reform Bills: A Legislative Update
•	2010 Annual Meeting Handbook
•	SEC Re-Proposes Proxy Access
•	RiskMetrics Policy Updates Suggest Increased Risk of Withhold/Against Vote Due to Poor Performance

Admissions

•	New York 1997

Clerkships

•	Hon. Robert B. Merhige, Jr., 1995 - 1996

Education

•	University of Virginia School of Law, 1995 J.D. Virginia Journal of International Law, 1993 - 1995
•	University of Virginia, 1991 B.A.