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Chairman, Executive Committee
Pete Ruegger is Chairman of the Executive Committee of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Mr. Ruegger advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate governance, investigations, corporate finance and general corporate and securities law matters.
Mr. Ruegger has represented principals on a number of significant merger transactions and advises many of the firm’s regular clients, including Blackstone, Travelers and Accenture among others.
Mr. Ruegger joined Simpson Thacher in 1974 and became a Partner in 1981. He became head of the Corporate Department in 2002. He has been a member of the Firm's Executive Committee since 1993 and became Chairman of the Executive Committee in 2004. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude, in 1971 where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1974. Mr. Ruegger is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Ruegger is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the Board of Henry Street Settlement House.
Honors/Associations
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York |
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Member, Board of Henry Street Settlement House |
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Member, Board of Trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council |
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Publications
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Private Equity and LBOs-Trends in Financing and Exit Structures, PLI 37th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, November 2005 |
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The Juggernaut Rolls On, Going Global, How To Do an International Deal, The M&A Journal, Vol. 1, No. 6 |
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M&A of High Technology Companies, Stanford Law School Directors' College 2000, June 2000 |
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Structuring International Acquisition Transactions, Third Annual Institute on Mergers and Acquisitions, University of Miami School of Law Center for the Study of Mergers & Acquisitions, February 18, 1999 |
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Structuring and Negotiating a Telecommunications Deal, for Practising Law Institute, July 1998 |
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Admissions
Education
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University of Virginia School of Law, 1974 J.D. |
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Dartmouth College, 1971 B.A.
Magna Cum Laude;
Phi Beta Kappa |
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