Mary Touchstone is Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where she is a member of the Banking and Credit Practice Group.  She specializes in domestic and international bank finance transactions, with an emphasis on leveraged acquisition finance, recapitalization and debt restructuring transactions, principally advising equity sponsors and corporate borrowers.  She also has extensive experience representing sponsors of private equity, mezzanine, energy/infrastructure and real estate funds in connection with secured subscription credit facilities.

Ms. Touchstone received her A.B. from Duke University, cum laude, in 1985 and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1988, where she was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review.  She is admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Admissions

•	New York 1989
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1993

Education

•	Vanderbilt University Law School, 1988 J.D. Vanderbilt Law Review
•	Duke University, 1985 A.B. cum laude