Lisa Morales

Based in the Firm’s New York office, Lisa Morales is Counsel in the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. She advises corporate and private equity clients in connection with a variety of complex transactions, including public and private mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, distressed M&A and joint ventures. Lisa has experience representing clients across a variety of sectors including consumer products, retail, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, energy, insurance, industrials, technology and telecommunications.

Lisa’s notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Merck KGaA in its pending acquisition of SpringWorks Therapeutics for an equity value of approximately $3.9 billion
• Neiman Marcus Group, parent company of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, in its $2.7 billion acquisition by HBC, parent of Saks Fifth Avenue
• Subway in its acquisition by Roark Capital
• CBRE Group in its acquisition of Direct Line Global from Guardian Capital
• The Special Committee of Independent Directors of SciPlay in its acquisition by Light & Wonder
• SVB Financial Group in its sale of SVB India
• United Rentals in its $2 billion acquisition of Ahern Rentals
• BP in its $1.3 billion acquisition of TravelCenters of America
• Goldman Sachs Group in its €1.7 billion acquisition of NN Investment Partners from NN Group
• AT&T in its spin-off of WarnerMedia into Discovery, under which WarnerMedia combined with Discovery in a $106.5 billion transaction to create a premier, standalone global entertainment company
• Temasek Holdings in connection with its investment in Creative Artists Agency
• Blackstone in connection with Precision Medicine Group’s major investment and recapitalization, led by funds managed by Blackstone
• Anheuser-Busch InBev in its acquisition of the remaining Craft Brew Alliance shares it did not already own and its divestiture of Craft Brew Alliance’s Kona Brewing operations in Hawaii to PV Brewing Partners
• L3Harris Technologies in the $1.05 billion sale of its Military Training business to CAE
• Tokio Marine Holdings in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Pure Group
• Fletcher Building in its $840 million sale of the Formica Group to Broadview Holding
• Amgen in its $167 million acquisition of Nuevolution
• Bayer in its $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto

Prior to joining the Firm, Lisa Morales was an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at another international law firm. She also worked as a Judicial Intern to the Honorable Albert Diaz at United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Earlier in her career, Lisa served as a legal analyst at a large investment banking firm.

She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2017 and her B.A. in Social Anthropology with a minor in Economics from Harvard University in 2010.