Richard A. Fenyes

Richard Fenyes is a Partner who has advised clients for more than twenty years on equity and debt capital markets transactions as well as general corporate and securities law matters. He regularly advises the Firm’s clients, including private equity sponsors such as KKR, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, and their portfolio companies, in connection with IPOs, acquisition financing, refinancings, debt restructuring and other registered and private offerings of equity and debt securities.

Richard’s representation of clients in equity offerings includes advising on the:

• IPO of Bentley Systems, Inc.
• IPO of ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.
• IPO of Shift4 Payments, Inc.
• IPO and secondary offerings of Gardner Denver Holdings, Inc. 
• IPO and secondary offerings of First Data Corporation
• IPO and secondary offerings of TransUnion
• IPO and secondary offerings of PRA Health Sciences, Inc. 
• IPO and secondary offerings of Pinnacle Foods Inc.
• IPO of Graham Packaging Company, Inc.
• IPO of Education Management Corporation
• IPO and secondary offerings of Nalco Holding Company
• secondary offerings of common stock of Gartner, Inc.
• IPO of Pinnacle Airlines, Inc.
• IPO Peabody Energy Corporation

Richard has represented issuers in high yield offerings and bridge financings in connection with acquisitions and refinancings, including many of the largest LBOs ever completed. Richard’s acquisition finance experience includes the:

• $9.9 billion acquisition of Envision Healthcare Corporation by KKR
• merger of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. with WMIH Corp.
• acquisition of a majority interest in Heartland Dental by KKR
• $4.3 billion acquisition of USI Insurance Services by KKR and CDPQ
• $1.6 billion acquisition of PRA International and ReSearch Pharmaceutical, Inc. by KKR
• $3.9 billion acquisition of Gardner Denver Holdings, Inc. by KKR
• $11.8 billion acquisition of Cooper Industries by Eaton Corporation
• $3.3 billion acquisition of TransUnion Corporation by Advent International and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners 
• acquisition of a controlling interest in Academy Sports + Outdoors by KKR
• $2.4 billion acquisition of Capsugel by KKR
• $3.4 billion acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus
• $1.4 billion acquisition of Bird’s Eye Holdings LLC by Pinnacle Foods
• $629 million acquisition of GL TRADE, S.A. by SunGard Data Systems Inc.
• $1.6 billion acquisition of DJO Incorporated by ReAble Therapeutics, Inc.
• $29 billion acquisition of First Data Corporation by KKR
• $2.3 billion acquisition of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, CanWest Global Communications Corp. and EdgeStone Capital Partners
• $1.4 billion acquisition of USI Holdings Inc. by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
• $22 billion acquisition of Kinder Morgan Inc. by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, AIG, Carlyle, Riverstone, company founder and management
• $2.2 billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Group Inc. by Blackstone
• $33 billion acquisition of HCA Inc. by KKR, Bain Capital Partners and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity
• $870 million acquisition of Encore Medical Corp. by Blackstone
• $3.4 billion acquisition of EDMC by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Providence Equity Partners
• $825 million acquisition of Activant Solutions Inc. by Hellman & Friedman and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners
• $2.5 billion acquisition of LPL Financial Services by Hellman & Friedman and Texas Pacific Group
• $2.6 billion acquisition of Avago Technologies by KKR and Silver Lake
• $11.3 billion acquisition of SunGard Data Systems Inc. by Silver Lake, Bain Capital, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, KKR, Providence and Texas Pacific Group
• $1.2 billion acquisition of Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. by The Cypress Group and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
• $1 billion acquisition of Affinia Group Inc. by The Cypress Group
• $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
• $4.7 billion acquisition of TRW Automotive by Blackstone

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