Richard Fenyes is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department.  He represents several leading private equity sponsors, including The Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners, in connection with acquisition financing, focusing on high yield offerings and bridge financing.  He also advises the Firm's issuer clients, including sponsor portfolio companies, in connection with IPOs and other registered and private offerings of debt and equity securities, as well as general corporate and securities law matters, and advises investment banking clients on underwritten offerings, including high yield debt offerings.

Mr. Fenyes’s acquisition finance experience includes:

• the $629 million acquisition of GL TRADE, S.A. by SunGard Data Systems Inc.
• the $29 billion acquisition of First Data Corporation by KKR
• the C$2.3 billion acquisition of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, CanWest Global Communications Corp. and EdgeStone Capital Partners
• the $1.4 billion acquisition of USI Holdings Inc. by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
• the $22 billion acquisition of Kinder Morgan Inc. by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, AIG, Carlyle, Riverstone, company founder and management
• the $2.2 billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Group Inc. by Blackstone
• the $33 billion acquisition of HCA Inc. by KKR, Bain Capital Partners and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity
• the $870 million acquisition of Encore Medical Corp. by Blackstone
• the $3.4 billion acquisition of EDMC  by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Providence Equity Partners
• the $825 million acquisition of Activant Solutions Inc. by Hellman & Friedman LLC and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners.
• the $2.5 billion acquisition of LPL Financial Services by Hellman & Friedman LLC and Texas Pacific Group
• the $2.6 billion acquisition of Avago Technologies by KKR and Silver Lake
• the $11.3 billion acquisition of SunGard Data Systems Inc. by Silver Lake, Bain, Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, KKR, Providence, and Texas Pacific Group
• the $1.2 billion acquisition of Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. by The Cypress Group and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
• the $4.2 billion acquisition of Nalco Company by Blackstone, Apollo Management and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and a subsequent discount note offering by Nalco Finance Holdings
• the $4.7 billion acquisition of TRW Automotive by Blackstone

Mr. Fenyes’s representation of issuers in equity offerings includes:

• the Initial Public Offering and secondary offerings of common stock of Nalco Holding Company
• secondary offerings common stock of Gartner, Inc.
• the Initial Public Offering of Pinnacle Airlines, Inc.
• the Initial Public Offering of Peabody Energy Corporation

Mr. Fenyes’s representation of investment banks includes:

• a $1.6 billion notes offering by FedEx Corporation
• a $750 million notes offering by USA Interative
• a $405 million high yield offering by Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation
• a $112 million high yield offering by Cornell Companies Inc.
• a $127 million high yield offering by Vicorp Restaurants, Inc.

Mr. Fenyes received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1995 and his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. Mr. Fenyes joined Simpson Thacher in 1995.

Publications

•	Private Equity Investments in Portfolio Company Debt: An Overview of Legal Issues, 2009
•	Restructuring Public Debt – An Overview of the Legal Framework

Admissions

•	New York 1996

Education

•	Harvard Law School, 1995 J.D.
•	University of California at Berkeley, 1992 B.A.