Hui Lin

Hui Lin is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department. Hui focuses her practice on corporate finance, particularly in capital markets and securities law matters. She has experience in a broad range of transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, registered and 144A high yield and investment grade debt offerings and liability management transactions. Hui also has significant experience in acquisition financings and regularly provides securities law advice in connection with mergers and acquisitions. Her diverse practice spans a broad range of industries, from media and technology, healthcare, financial services to oil and gas.

Her clients include private equity sponsors, such as Silver Lake Partners, EQT, Sixth Street, Global Infrastructure Partners and The Invus Group, corporate issuers including CAVA, Dell Technologies, First Advantage, Waystar and Zayo Group, as well as financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. She also represents major investment banks in connection with various capital markets transactions. Hui is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Hui is recognized in Chambers USA, where clients praise that “Hui has great substantive expertise on capital markets and is incredibly responsive; she is a good problem-solver.” Additionally, she has been named to Crain’s New York Business’ “40 Under 40” in 2023 and honored as a Law360 “Rising Star” in Capital Markets and a “Notable Practitioner” in Capital Markets by IFLR1000. 

Representative transactions include:

• Waystar in its $1.1 billion initial public offering and $920 million secondary offering 
• CAVA Group in its $340 million initial public offering
• First Advantage in its $440 million initial public offering and follow-on equity offering
• NeueHealth (f/k/a Bright Health Group) in its $924 million initial public offering
• Blue Buffalo in its $780 million initial public offering and multiple follow-on equity offerings
• $34 billion of debt financing related to the announced acquisition of Kellanova by Mars
• Preferred equity financing related to the $25 billion take-private of Endeavor by Silver Lake Partners and the announced $8.75 billion joint venture with respect to Altera, between Intel and Silver Lake Partners
• Preferred equity financing related to the $5.1 billion take-private of Enstar Group by Sixth Street
• Silver Lake Partners in various investments, including Global Payments Network, Unity Software, GlobalFoundries, SoFi Technologies and Carta
• Consortium led by Digital Colony Partners and EQT Infrastructure in their $14.3 billion acquisition of Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. 
• Dell Technologies in its spin-off of VMware and numerous investment grade debt offerings totaling over $18.8 billion, in addition to its mega-sized $20 billion secured investment grade bond offering and $3.25 billion unsecured high yield bond offering in connection with Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC
• BellRing Brands in its spin-off from Post Holdings and multiple secondary offerings
• Broadcom in connection with $100 billion of committed debt financing for its proposed acquisition of Qualcomm
• Underwriters in the $489 million IPO of Paycor and multiple follow-on equity offerings
• Underwriters in the $465 million IPO of Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. and multiple follow-on equity offerings
• Weight Watchers in its strategic collaboration with Oprah Winfrey
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. and JPMorgan Chase Bank in connection with multiple registered and unregistered offerings of debt securities and preferred stock, including a $13 billion bond offering, one of the largest bond offerings by a bank holding company on record

Hui joined Simpson Thacher following her graduation in 2007 from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her LL.B. from University College London, also in 2007. Hui is admitted to practice in New York.