Erica M. Egenes

Erica Egenes is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, where she regularly advises private equity sponsors and public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, investments, dispositions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions across a wide range of industries. Erica’s clients have included, among others, Blackstone, KKR, Karuna Therapeutics, EQT, TD Bank and TPG Rise Climate.

Selected notable M&A transactions on which Erica has advised include representing:

• Blackstone in multiple transactions, including its: proposed majority growth investment in NetBrain Technologies; acquisition of a majority ownership in Jersey Mike’s; A$24 billion acquisition of AirTrunk; acquisition of Tropical Smoothie Café; majority investment in Supergoop!; acquisition of a majority stake in Spanx; acquisition of DCI; equity investment in FireEye; and carve-out acquisition by ARKA (f/k/a AMERGINT Technologies) of Raytheon’s space-based precision optics business; among others
• Chamberlain Group in its acquisitions of Arrow Tru-Line and Multi-Fab Products-Nova Technology 
• EQT and Aldevron in the sale of Aldevron to Danaher Corporation for $9.6 billion
• ILC Dover and New Mountain Capital in the $2.325 billion sale of ILC Dover to Ingersoll Rand
• Karuna Therapeutics in its $14 billion acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• KKR in multiple transactions, including in its acquisition of Barracuda, its sale of Audiobooks.com and OverDrive’s acquisition of Kanopy
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of TRAC Intermodal
• TD Bank in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Cowen Inc.
• TPG Rise Climate in its acquisition of AmSpec Group

Prior to joining the Firm, Erica completed a clerkship with Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III on the Delaware Court of Chancery. Erica received her J.D., cum laude, from Duke University School of Law, where she was elected to Order of the Coif.  She received her B.A. with honors from Northwestern University.