Katherine M. Krause

Katherine Krause is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department. She regularly advises private equity firms and public companies on mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, spin-offs, recapitalizations and other business combination transactions. In the past she has represented private equity clients, including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, GTCR, Hellman & Friedman, Sixth Street Partners and TPG, as well as strategic clients and portfolio companies on M&A transactions. Over her career, Katherine has advised on significant corporate matters across a wide range of sectors including private equity, infrastructure and venture capital, among others. She was recently named among Crain’s 2025 “Notable M&A Dealmakers”, among the 2024 top 10 women dealmakers by Mergerlinks, as one of The Deal’s 2023 “Top Women in Dealmaking” and recognized as one of The American Lawyer’s 2023 “Dealmakers of the Year”.   

Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Katherine was most recently a Managing Director in the Legal Department at Goldman Sachs. During her tenure, she was responsible for supporting the Merchant Banking Division (MBD) in connection with principal investments and dispositions across corporate equity and debt, infrastructure and venture capital opportunities, as well as in connection with fundraising, litigation and regulatory compliance matters. She was also a member of MBD’s Infrastructure Investment Committee and MBD’s Client and Business Standards Committee.

Katherine’s experience includes advising on:

• Beacon Roofing in its approximately $11 billion acquisition by QXO
• Blackstone in its acquisition of an equity stake in AIG’s Life & Retirement business
• Board of Directors of Twitter in the $44 billion sale of Twitter to Elon Musk
• The Bountiful Company, a portfolio company of KKR, in its $5.75 billion sale to Nestlé
• Bright Health Group in the $175 million convertible preferred equity financing led by New Enterprise Associates and sale of its California Medicare business to Molina Healthcare
• Curriculum Associates in connection with its acquisition of SoapBox Labs
• Edelman Financial Engines, a portfolio company of Hellman & Friedman, in its strategic investment from Warburg Pincus
• GM Cruise Holdings’ Board of Directors in its full acquisition by General Motors
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management in its: acquisition of TAIT; strategic investment in Visual Comfort & Co.; $8.5 billion acquisition of Parexel (alongside EQT); acquisition of MDVIP (alongside Charlesbank Capital Partners); acquisition of ImOn Communications; acquisition of CarltonOne; and investment in Synthica Energy
• GTCR in its: acquisition of FMG Suite; investments in Clear Capital, Winged Keel Group and R&T Deposit Solutions; and sale of Paya Holdings to Nuvei in a $1.3 billion transaction
• Hellman & Friedman in its $2.8 billion acquisition of At Home Group
• Paramount Global in its merger with Skydance Media for an enterprise value of approximately $28 billion
• Sixth Street Partners in its: sale of shares of AvePoint, Inc. to Anchor IV Pte. Ltd.; investments in Far West Services and Blue Stream Fiber; and acquisition of Enstar Group Limited for $5.1 billion
• Snap One in its $1.4 billion acquisition by Resideo Technologies
• TPG Rise Climate in its acquisitions of AmSpec Group and MIRATECH Corp., and investments in BETA Technologies