James Campisi is a Partner in the Firm’s London Corporate team. He advises private equity firms and corporate clients on a variety of complex, cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take private transactions and auction processes. In addition, James advises clients on a variety of equity capital markets transactions (including IPOs) and general corporate matters.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in 2019, James practiced at a top-tier Australian law firm in Sydney.
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Work Highlights
- Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, in partnership with the Benetton family, in its takeover of Atlantia SpA, valuing the company at approximately $59 billion
- KKR on multiple engagements, including the disposal of a majority stake in A-Gas to TPG Rise Climate, the £1.75 billion take private acquisition of ContourGlobal plc, the acquisition of Hyperoptic and the acquisition of a majority stake in Coty Inc.’s professional beauty and retail hair businesses (now known as Wella), with an enterprise value of $4.3 billon
- Apax Partners on multiple engagements, including the €5.1 billion consortium acquisition of T-Mobile Netherlands, the sale of Engineering Group and the €1.3 billion sale of idealista to EQT
- Silver Lake-backed Software AG in the sale of StreamSets and webMethods to IBM for €2.13 billion
- Blackstone on multiple engagements, including the take private acquisitions of Industrials REIT Limited and Hansteen Holdings plc and its investment in Currencies Direct
- BC Partners and GardaWorld in the unsolicited £3.7 billion takeover offer for G4S plc
Education
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University of Technology, Sydney, 2015 LL.B. (Hons.)
First Class Honors
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University of Technology, Sydney, 2015 Bachelor of Business
with Distinction
James Campisi is a Partner in the Firm’s London Corporate team. He advises private equity firms and corporate clients on a variety of complex, cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take private transactions and auction processes. In addition, James advises clients on a variety of equity capital markets transactions (including IPOs) and general corporate matters.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in 2019, James practiced at a top-tier Australian law firm in Sydney.
James’ experience includes the representation of:
- Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, in partnership with the Benetton family, in its takeover of Atlantia SpA, valuing the company at approximately $59 billion
- KKR on multiple engagements, including the disposal of a majority stake in A-Gas to TPG Rise Climate, the £1.75 billion take private acquisition of ContourGlobal plc, the acquisition of Hyperoptic and the acquisition of a majority stake in Coty Inc.’s professional beauty and retail hair businesses (now known as Wella), with an enterprise value of $4.3 billon
- Apax Partners on multiple engagements, including the €5.1 billion consortium acquisition of T-Mobile Netherlands, the sale of Engineering Group and the €1.3 billion sale of idealista to EQT
- Silver Lake-backed Software AG in the sale of StreamSets and webMethods to IBM for €2.13 billion
- Blackstone on multiple engagements, including the take private acquisitions of Industrials REIT Limited and Hansteen Holdings plc and its investment in Currencies Direct
- BC Partners and GardaWorld in the unsolicited £3.7 billion takeover offer for G4S plc
- Bridgepoint Group plc in its £907 million IPO on the London main market
- EQT Infrastructure in its $4.6 billion acquisition of First Student and First Transit from FirstGroup plc
- Melrose Industries PLC in its demerger of the GKN Automotive, GKN Powder Metallurgy and GKN Hydrogen businesses from the Melrose group into a new independent holding company, Dowlais Group plc
- KKR in its combination of NielsenIQ and GfK SE