Marisa Geiger

Based in the New York office, Marisa B. Geiger is a Partner in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice and Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice. Recognized among leading lawyers advising on intellectual property matters and technology transactions by Chambers USA and Legal 500 USA, Marisa advises on the IP and technology aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carve outs, minority investments and spin-offs, and the structuring and negotiation of complex, standalone IP transactions, including in the context of strategic alliances and joint ventures, collaboration and development agreements, license agreements, long-term services agreements and distribution agreements. She provides broad-based counseling services covering IP and privacy and cybersecurity matters to clients in a variety of industries, including internet, telecommunications, social and digital media, software, hardware, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, digital health, health services, content, retail, manufacturing, transportation and consumer products. She has also advised on the successful resolution of a wide range of IP disputes.

Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, in addition to negotiating high-profile settlements of worldwide IP disputes and confidential licensing, collaboration and development arrangements, Marisa provided counsel on the IP and technology components of numerous corporate transactions.

Representative experience includes advising:

• Hellman & Friedman and SimpliSafe in connection with the announced sale of SimpliSafe to GTCR
• AGCO in its joint venture with Trimble to acquire an 85% interest in Trimble’s portfolio of agriculture assets and technologies in exchange for $2 billion in cash, and separately, in its agreement to sell the majority of its Grain & Protein business to American Industrial Partners for $700 million in cash
• Blue Yonder in its acquisition of One Network Enterprises for approximately $839 million 
• Charlesbank Capital Partners in its majority growth investment in Petra Funds Group
• Clariant AG in its acquisition of Lucas Meyer Cosmetics from International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. for $810 million in cash
• KKR in its approximately $4 billion acquisition of Broadcom Inc.’s End-User computing division
• Mosaic in its agreement to sell its 25% stake in a Saudi Arabian Phosphate joint venture to Saudi Arabian Mining Company
• Sensor Tower in its acquisition of Data.ai 
• A consortium of institutional investors led by Sixth Street in their acquisition of the GreenSky lending and servicing platform and associated loan assets from Goldman Sachs 
• Strategic Risk Solutions in its announced acquisition of Garnet Captive Insurance Services
• Yahoo in its acquisition of the Artifact application from Instagram’s co-founders

In 2014, Marisa was seconded under the head of the IP Transaction Group at Yahoo! Inc. She also served as a voting member on the IP Licensing Standards Committee of the Licensing Executives Society of USA and Canada from 2020-2021.

Marisa received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. She is admitted to practice in New York and California.