Simpson Thacher is representing Goldman Sachs (“Goldman Sachs”) in connection with the announced formation of a new AI-native enterprise services firm by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, that will work with companies to rapidly bring Claude into their core business operations. Alongside the founding partners, the new firm is backed by a consortium of leading alternative asset managers.
The new firm is a standalone entity with Anthropic engineering and partnership resources embedded directly within its team. The new firm will serve as an accelerant in bringing AI solutions to mid-size companies, helping to drive adoption across an initial customer base of both portfolio companies of the investment firms and independent companies that can benefit from the platform. The new firm will benefit from the consortium’s broad network of hundreds of companies to design, build, and maintain enterprise AI deployments, establishing a scalable platform for sustained growth.
The Simpson Thacher team representing Goldman Sachs includes Katherine Krause, Timothy Gaffney, Jordan Czelan and Matthew Molinsky (M&A); Hui Lin (Capital Markets); Jonathan Goldstein and Jessica Berman (Tax); Caroline Geiger, Kate Mirino, and Chandler Gerard-Reimer (Intellectual Property); and Peter Guryan and Max Fischer-Zernin (Antitrust).