Catherine Burns regularly advises the world’s foremost private equity firms and their portfolio companies and other corporate borrowers on acquisition financings, bank and bridge loan financings, refinancings, liability management and restructuring transactions, and other corporate finance transactions.
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Work Highlights
- Broadcom Limited in connection with $100 billion of committed debt financing for its proposed acquisition of Qualcomm Incorporated
- Digital Colony Partners and EQT Partners in connection with the financing for their $14.3 billion acquisition of Zayo
- Silver Lake Partners in connection with its acquisition of First Advantage from Symphony Technology Group
- KKR Real Estate Finance Trust in its term loan and revolving credit facilities
- Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division in connection with its acquisition of MDVIP
Education
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Cornell Law School, 2015 J.D.
Order of the Coif; magna cum laude
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Cornell University, 2015 M.B.A.
With Distinction
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New York University, 2010 M.P.A.
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University of Pennsylvania, 2007 B.A.
cum laude
Associations
- New York State Bar Association
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Catherine Burns is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Banking and Credit Practice. She regularly advises the world’s foremost private equity firms and their portfolio companies and other corporate borrowers on acquisition financings, bank and bridge loan financings, refinancings, liability management and restructuring transactions, and other corporate finance transactions.
Catherine’s recent work includes advising:
- Silver Lake Partners in connection with $8.5 billion of committed debt financing for its acquisition of Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc.
- KKR in connection with the financing for its approximately $4 billion acquisition of Broadcom’s End-User Computing Division
- Mars Corporation in connection with a $34 billion bridge facility for its acquisition of Kellanova
- Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division in connection with the financing for its acquisitions of MDVIP, Synagro Technologies and Liquid Environmental Solutions
- Digital Colony Partners and EQT Partners in connection with the financing for their $14.3 billion acquisition of Zayo
- Dell Technologies in its refinancing transactions, including in connection with its spin-off of VMware
- Blackstone in the financing related to its $1.2 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Spanx from its founder
- Broadcom Limited in connection with $100 billion of committed debt financing for its proposed acquisition of Qualcomm Incorporated
- Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. in connection with the financing of its $1.4 billion acquisition of Interactive Intelligence
- Silver Lake Partners and its portfolio companies in the financings for numerous acquisitions and in refinancings, including those for Qualtrics, Entrata, EverCommerce, First Advantage, City Football Group, Endeavor, TKO, Clubessential, ProService and Relativity
- KKR and its portfolio companies in the financings for numerous acquisitions and in refinancings, including those for KKR Real Estate Investment Trust, Heartland Dental, Accuris, Groundworks and Quick Quack Car Wash
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Catherine received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, her M.B.A. from Cornell University in 2015, with distinction, and her J.D.,
magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School that same year. Catherine is admitted to practice in New York.