James Campisi

James is a Partner in the Firm’s London Corporate team. He advises private equity firms and corporate clients on all types of significant transactions including public and private acquisitions, carve-outs, take privates, consortium deals and strategic minority and hybrid investments. His clients have included market-leading private equity firms such as Apax, Blackstone, CVC, KKR and Silver Lake.

Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in 2019, James practiced at a top-tier Australian law firm in Sydney.

James’ experience includes the representation of:

• Blackstone on multiple engagements, including:
  • the pending £470 million takeover of Warehouse REIT plc;
  • the strategic investment in SuperBet in connection with its €1.3 billion refinancing;
  • the £500 million takeover of Industrials REIT Limited;
  • the £500 million takeover of Hansteen Holdings plc;
  • the takeover of Atlantia SpA, valuing the company at approximately $59 billion (in partnership with the Bennetton family); and
  • the strategic investment in Currencies Direct
• Apax Partners on multiple engagements, including:
  • the pending acquisition of Finastra’s global Treasury and Capital Markets business;
  • the €1.3 billion sale of idealista to EQT and subsequent €2.9 billion consortium sale of idealista to Cinven;
  • the €5.1 billion consortium acquisition of T-Mobile Netherlands; and
  • the €1.6 billion sale of Engineering Group to Bain and NB Renaissance
• KKR on multiple engagements, including:
  • the disposal of a majority stake in A-Gas to TPG Rise Climate;
  • the £1.75 billion takeover of ContourGlobal plc;
  • the £1.3 billion take private acquisition of SMS plc;
  • the acquisition of Hyperoptic;
  • the acquisition of a majority stake in Wella, with an enterprise value of $4.3 billon;
  • the acquisition of Viridor;
  • the combination of NielsenIQ and GfK SE; and
  • the sale of its stake in The Hut Group in connection with its IPO
• Silver Lake-backed Software AG in the €2.13 billion sale of StreamSets and webMethods to IBM
• CVC in its acquisition of M Group Services
• BC Partners and GardaWorld in the unsolicited £3.7 billion takeover offer for G4S plc
• Grant Thornton Advisors in its acquisition of Grant Thornton UAE
• Bridgepoint Group plc in its £907 million IPO on the London main market.
• EQT Infrastructure in its $4.6 billion acquisition of First Student and First Transit from FirstGroup plc
• Melrose Industries PLC in its demerger of the GKN Automotive, GKN Powder Metallurgy and GKN Hydrogen businesses from the Melrose group into a new independent holding company, Dowlais Group plc
• Bruin Capital on its investment in TGI Media