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Kathryn King Sudol is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and a member of the Firm’s Corporate Department where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Sudol has advised corporate, private equity and other clients in connection with a variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions, leveraged buyouts, minority and strategic investments and other corporate matters.
Selected transactions while based in Hong Kong include representations of:
- KKR in its investment in Ma San Consumer Corporation in Vietnam and its investment in Magma Fincorp Limited in India
- Blackstone in its acquisition of Antares Restaurant Group in New Zealand and its investments in Moser Baer Projects and Monnet Power Company in India
- PAG Asia Capital in connection with the $443 million going private transaction involving Funtalk China Holdings Limited
- CDH Growth Capital in its proposal with a consortium led by TPG for a potential going private transaction involving CNinsure Inc.
- Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) in connection with the $2.3 billion going private transaction involving Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
- China National Agrochemical Corporation in its $2.4 billion acquisition of Makhteshim Agan Industries in Israel
- MMI Holdings Limited in its acquisition of Intriplex Technologies, acquisition of Precision Magnetics Singapore and acquisition of the Metalform Group in China, Thailand and Singapore
- Primus Pacific Partners in its sale of a stake in New China Life Insurance Co.
- Blum Capital Partners in its investment in Pacific Alliance Group in Hong Kong in connection with a tender offer to acquire Secured Capital Japan Ltd. in Japan
- Swire Pacific in its HK$6.8 billion tender offer for Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company
Selected transactions while based in New York include representations of:
- Gas Natural SDG in its $28.5 billion unsolicited exchange offer for Endesa in Spain
- Mars, Incorporated in its $23 billion acquisition of Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company
- Rinker Group in the $15.3 billion unsolicited tender offer in Australia launched by CEMEX
- Sirius Satellite Radio in its $13 billion merger with XM Satellite Radio
- Manulife Financial Corporation in its $11 billion merger with John Hancock Financial Services
- Blackstone in its $9 billion acquisition of Trizec Properties
- adidas AG in its $3.8 billion acquisition of Reebok and its sale of The Greg Norman Collection
- Vivendi in its €2.8 billion takeover of GVT (Holding) in Brazil
- Claire’s Stores, Inc. in its $3.1 billion sale to an affiliate of Apollo Management
- Grey Global Group Inc. in its $1.5 billion sale to WPP Group plc
- PRIMEDIA Inc. in the $1.2 billion sale of its Enthusiast Media business
- KKR in its C$3 billion acquisition of the Yellow Pages Group from Bell Canada
- Lion Capital in its investment in American Apparel
- Evercore Partners in multiple transactions, including its initial public offering and investments involving Mizuho Corporate Bank, CITIC Securities and Trilantic Capital Partners
Ms. Sudol is currently located in our Hong Kong office, after practicing in our New York office from 1998 through 2010. She received her B.S., with honors, from Northwestern University, School of Speech, in 1995 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1998. Ms. Sudol has served a trustee of The First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York and on the National Women’s Law Center Leadership 35 advisory committee. Ms. Sudol has been recognized by The New York Times as one of the next generation of dealmakers in “The Facebook of Wall Street’s Future,” and has been named as a leading Private Equity M&A lawyer in Hong Kong by IFLR1000.
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New York University School of Law, 1998 J.D. |
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Northwestern University, 1995 B.S.
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