Simpson Thacher is representing Nordic Capital in its acquisition of BMLL, a leading independent provider of harmonised historical order book data and analytics.
BMLL sources raw market data from more than 120 venues and, through its proprietary engineering process, delivers the most granular Level 3, 2 and 1 order book data and analytics spanning global equities, ETFs, futures and U.S. options in a standardised, globally consistent format for banks, asset managers, hedge funds, exchanges and other market participants for use in research, trading, analytics and compliance.
The Simpson Thacher team includes James R. Howe, Chris Vallance, James Campisi, Andrew Cho and Julia Conzen (Corporate); Caleb McConnell, Chris Dorman and Daniel Griffiths (Tax).