Ignacio Perez is a Partner in the Firm’s Capital Markets Practice. He frequently represents corporate issuers, private equity sponsors and investment banks in a wide range of capital markets transactions, including offerings of investment grade and high yield debt securities, private placements, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, acquisition financing transactions and other corporate finance transactions.
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Work Highlights
- Mars, Incorporated in its $34 billion debt financing related to its acquisition of Kellanova, including a $26 billion Rule 144A/Reg S offering of senior notes
- Investment banks in the $1.05 billion NYSE IPO of NIQ Global Intelligence
- Blackstone and its portfolio companies, including QTS Data Centers and Safe Harbor Marinas, in multiple notes offerings and other financing transactions
- A global technology and industrial company in multiple equity and debt tender offers and US and Euro-denominated bond and sustainable finance offerings
- Investment banks in debt acquisition financings including debut high yield notes offerings by Bausch + Lomb, Regal Rexnord and Vertiv Holdings Co and other debt and equity offerings by Carnival, WarnerMedia, Evertec, Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Kimberly-Clark and CPI CG Inc.
Education
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New York University School of Law, 2018 LL.M.
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University of the Republic, 2014 J.D.
Ignacio Perez is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Capital Markets Practice. He frequently represents corporate issuers, private equity sponsors and investment banks in a wide range of capital markets transactions, including offerings of investment grade and high yield debt securities, private placements, initial public offerings, acquisition financing transactions and other corporate finance transactions.
Representative transactions on which Ignacio has advised include:
- Mars, Incorporated in its $34 billion debt financing related to its acquisition of Kellanova, including a $26 billion Rule 144A/Reg S offering of senior notes
- Investment banks in the $1.05 billion NYSE IPO of NIQ Global Intelligence
- Blackstone and its portfolio companies, including QTS Data Centers and Safe Harbor Marinas, in multiple notes offerings and other financing transactions
- A global technology and industrial company in equity and debt tender offers and US and Euro-denominated bond and sustainable finance offerings
- Investment banks in Bausch + Lomb’s Acquisition of XIIDRA®, including its debut $1.4 billion senior secured notes offering
- KKR & Co. Inc. in connection with a series of organizational changes including the creation of a new parent holding company for KKR’s business
- Investment banks in Regal Rexnord Corporation’s acquisition of Altra Industrial Motion Corp. including its debut $4.7 billion senior notes offering and its related consent solicitation
- CHS/Community Health Systems in refinancing transactions, including a Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $1 billion senior secured notes
- Mars, Incorporated in its $2.5 billion Rule 144A/Reg S senior notes including inaugural offering of sustainability notes
- Investment banks in Vertiv Holdings Co’s acquisition of E&I Engineering Ireland Limited, including its debut $850 million senior secured notes offering and secondary offering of Vertiv’s common stock
- Hill Path Capital in a $150 million preferred equity investment in The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc.
- Investment banks in:
- Carnival’s €500 million senior notes offering
- WarnerMedia in its registered offering of $1.5 billion senior notes and its cash tender offer
- Evertec’s secondary offering of common stock
- Owens-Brockway Glass Container’s $690 million and €600 million of senior secured notes
- Kimberly-Clark’s registered offering of $350 million of notes
- CPI CG Inc.’s $285 million Rule 144A/Reg S notes offering
Ignacio received his J.D. from University of the Republic and his LL.M. from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York.