Kristy Fields focuses her practice on compensation and benefit-related issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, new and joint ventures and other corporate transactions. She regularly advises private equity firms, public companies and senior executives on the design, negotiation and implementation of employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections and management participation in buyouts and new ventures.
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Work Highlights
- Blackstone Core+ perpetual capital vehicles in their $12.8 billion acquisition of American Campus Communities
- New Mountain Capital’s $2.45 billion acquisition of PerkinElmer’s Applied Food and Enterprise Services businesses
- Corsair in its acquisition of a majority stake in HungerRush
- KKR’s majority investment in Alchemer
- Manchester Energy’s partnership with EnCap Flatrock Midstream to develop a large scale, diversified midstream business
Education
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New York University School of Law, 2013 J.D.
cum laude; New York University Law Review, Senior Executive Editor
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Sam Houston State University, 2008 M.A. Forensic Clinical Psychology
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University of California at San Diego, 2005 B.A. Cognitive Science
Kristy Fields is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Houston office, and a member of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice. Kristy focuses her practice on compensation and benefit-related issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, new and joint ventures and other corporate transactions. She regularly advises private equity firms, public companies and senior executives on the design, negotiation and implementation of employment agreements, equity compensation, performance incentives, deferred compensation, change in control protections and management participation in buyouts and new ventures.
Kristy’s recent representations include:
- Global Infrastructure Partners’ sale of 50% of its interest in Clearway Energy Group to TotalEnergies
- Stonepeak’s $2.4 billion acquisition of Intrado Corporation’s Safety Business
- New Mountain Capital’s $2.45 billion acquisition of PerkinElmer’s Applied Food and Enterprise Services businesses
- Manchester Energy’s partnership with EnCap Flatrock Midstream to develop a large scale, diversified midstream business
- Funds advised by Apax in their sale of MyCase to AffiniPay
- Corsair in its acquisition of a majority stake in HungerRush
- KKR’s majority investment in Alchemer
- First Student’s acquisition of Total Transportation Corp.
- Blackstone Core+ perpetual capital vehicles in their $12.8 billion acquisition of American Campus Communities
- Initial purchasers and J.P. Morgan Securities and Goldman Sachs & Co as selling security holders in the 144A/Regulation S offering by Magallenes, Inc.
- Riverstone Credit Partners and Summit Partners Credit Advisors’ launch of R3 Renewables in a joint venture with Peabody
Kristy received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego in 2005 and her M.A. in Forensic Clinical Psychology from Sam Houston State University in 2008. She received her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2014 where she was a Senior Executive Editor of New York University Law Review. She is admitted to practice in New York and Texas.