Malik Ladhani

Malik Ladhani is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. He regularly advises private equity sponsors and public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and other significant corporate transactions.

He has experience representing clients across a variety of industries, including technology and software, financial services, consumer products, healthcare and industrials. His clients have included, among others, Blackstone, Cvent, Microsoft, TIH and TransUnion.

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

• TIH in its $7.75 billion sale of its McGriff Insurance Services business and the sale of its Crump Life Insurance Services business
• Liftoff Mobile and Blackstone in Blackstone’s sale of a minority stake in Liftoff
• Alight in the $1.2 billion the sale of its Payroll and Professional Services business
• Medline in its $950 million acquisition of the global surgical solutions business of Ecolab
• GTCR in its strategic investment in Winged Keel Group
• Cvent in its acquisitions of Prismm, Splash and Reposite
• Grant Thornton Advisors in the expansion of its multinational platform through its announced acquisitions of Grant Thornton Poland and Grant Thornton New Zealand
• TransUnion in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Neustar
• Blackstone in its $4.6 billion acquisition of Cvent
• Apax Partners in its acquisitions of Ole Smoky Distillery and Homeowner Services Group
• First Data Corporation in its $22 billion merger with Fiserv
• Microsoft in its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance Communications

Malik received his J.D. from Harvard Law School where he served as Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Negotiation Law Review. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Ottawa.