Ziyad Ziyadzade

Based in Chicago, Partner Ziyad Ziyadzade represents private equity sponsors, family offices, and public and private companies across a broad range of strategic transactions. He advises clients on negotiating and structuring complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, private equity investments and public offerings.

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Bain Capital in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of HealthEdge, UST HealthProof (together with HealthEdge), LeanTaaS, athenahealth (together with Hellman & Friedman), PartsSource and VUE Software (together with Vista Equity Partners and Vertafore); the minority investments in Greenphire and Suvoda; the pre-IPO minority investment in Corient, CI Financial’s U.S. wealth management business; the acquisitions of HST Pathways, Casetabs (together with HST) and subsequent strategic growth investment in HST by Novo Holdings; the strategic investment in PCI Pharma Services; the sale of BMC Software to KKR; the $5.35 billion sale of Vertafore to Roper Technologies (together with Vista Equity Partners); the $1.2 billion sale of Consolidated Container to Loews Corp.; and the minority equity investment in Zelis by a group of investors led by Mubadala Investment Company (together with Parthenon Capital)
• GTCR in numerous transactions, including the acquisition of Simpli.fi and subsequent strategic equity investment in Simpli.fi by Blackstone Group; the merger of Point Broadband with Clearwave Fiber (together with Berkshire); the $24.25 billion sale of Worldpay to Global Payments; the joint venture with Cable One (together with Stephens Capital Partners and The Pritzker Organization); the sale of Dash Financial to Flexpoint Ford; and the combination of LiquidPoint and Dash Financial (together with Convergex)
• Thomas H. Lee Partners in numerous transactions, including the combination and recapitalization of MHS Global and Fortna; the strategic investment in Smile Doctors; the $2.8 billion sale of 40% of AutoStore Systems to SoftBank; the acquisition of Hexure (f/k/a Insurance Technologies); the acquisition of Alfresco Software and subsequent sale of Alfresco to Hyland Software; the $190 million sale of Ten-X to CoStar Group; the $1.4 billion sale of Curo Health Services to a private investor group consisting of Humana, TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; and the $1.25 billion sale of GCA Services Group to ABM Industries Incorporated (together with Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division)
• CD&R, together with Veritiv, in the acquisition of Orora Packaging Solutions
• TA Associates in its strategic investment in Netsmart Technologies
• Coalesce Capital in the acquisition of Examinetics
• Comvest Partners in the acquisition of VanDeMark Chemical
• Chicago Growth Partners in the sale of WorkWave to IFS Global
• Union Park Capital in the acquisition of Advanced Environmental Monitoring
• Carvana Co. in its $225 million IPO (Up-C Structure)