Tony Y. Rim

Tony Rim is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department, where he focuses on capital markets transactions. He advises corporate issuers, private equity sponsors and investment banks in a wide range of complex debt and equity transactions, including IPOs and follow-on equity offerings, as well as 144A/Reg S high yield and SEC-registered debt offerings. Tony also has significant experience in acquisition financings and provides securities law advice in connection with M&A transactions. Additionally, Tony advises clients in liability management, restructuring and refinancing transactions, as well as on corporate governance and general corporate and securities law matters.

Tony’s recent transactions have included advising:

• Dell Technologies in its return to public markets in 2018 through its Class V tracking stock exchange transaction, as well as a series of refinancing transactions;
• Finance of America in its debut high yield debt offering and on financing aspects of its de-SPAC transaction valued at $1.9 billion;
• AMC Entertainment in its $500 million first lien secured notes offering;
• J.P. Morgan and underwriters in the $10 billion of financing for Sinclair Broadcast Group’s acquisition of 21 regional sports networks and Fox College Sports from The Walt Disney Company;
• First Data in its $2.94 billion IPO, as well as a series of debt and equity follow-on transactions and on financing aspects of its merger with Fiserv;
• Hovnanian Enterprises in a series of secured debt restructuring transactions;
• Underwriters in IPOs for Weber and Mister Car Wash, as well as investment grade debt offerings for FedEx, Berkshire Hathaway, Broadcom and Texas Instruments;
• Underwriters in debt and equity financing transactions for financial services companies, including Reinsurance Group of America, EverBank Financial Corporation, Opus Bank, Symetra Financial and Aspen Insurance, as well as Eastern Bank’s $1.8 billion mutual-to-stock conversion;
• Ingersoll Rand in its spin-off of Allegion and the related financing transactions, and the underwriters in the financing transactions related to the spin-off of Frontdoor from ServiceMaster; and
• Vista Equity in connection with the financing for its $6.5 billion acquisition of Solera Holdings.

Tony received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, in 2011 and a B.A., cum laude, from UCLA in 2008, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Tony joined Simpson Thacher in 2011. He is admitted to practice in New York.