Daisy Wu

Daisy Wu is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Based in the New York office, she advises multinational corporations, financial institutions, private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and other deals. She has advised on transactions across numerous industries, ranging from energy and infrastructure, healthcare and insurance to technology and media and entertainment, among others.

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Emerson Electric Co. in multiple transactions, including: the sale of a majority stake in its Climate Technologies business to funds managed by Blackstone in a transaction valuing Climate Technologies at $14 billion; and its $8.2 billion acquisition of National Instruments Corporation.
• Crestview Partners on its acquisition of Smyth Companies from Novacap.
• Platinum Equity and Butterfly Equity Partners LLC on their acquisition of Rise Baking Company.
• Penguin Random House in its acquisition of Hay House and of publishing assets of Callisto Media.
• BDT Capital Partners in multiple transactions, including: the combination of Culligan International, its portfolio company, with Waterlogic Group Holdings; and its acquisition of Culligan International from Advent International and Centerbridge Partners.
• Bridgepoint Capital in multiple transactions, including its acquisition of Sun World International and sale of minority interests in Humanetics to Ansys, Inc.
• TPG Capital in its take-private acquisition of Convey Health Solutions Holdings representing an enterprise value of approximately $1.1 billion.
• Ad hoc group of first lien lenders to AMC Entertainment Holdings in a series of liability management refinancing transactions, extending the maturity of approximately $1.6 billion in debt from 2026 to 2029 and 2030.
• State Street Corporation in its $3.5 billion acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.’s Investor Services business.
• The Orogen Group in its acquisition of a majority interest in Westcor Land Title Insurance Company.
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio companies in a multiple transactions, including acquisition by Ingenovis Health, Inc. of VISTA Staffing Solutions from Envision Physician Services and acquisition by Ingenovis Health, Inc. of HealthCare Support Staffing.
• Fiera Capital Corporation in connection with its sale of Bel Air Investment Advisors to Hightower Advisors.
• Contura Energy in its merger-of-equals with Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc., its purchase of certain Blackjewel assets through bankruptcy proceedings, its exit from Powder River Basin through the merger of two previously wholly owned subsidiaries with Eagle Specialty Materials and its sale of certain assets in the Powder River Basin.
• Freeport-McMoRan Inc. in connection with its $550 million sale of its interests in the Kisanfu project to a wholly owned subsidiary of China Molybdenum Co., Ltd.
• Assurant in its acquisition of mobile device trade-in innovator HYLA Mobile.

Daisy received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2016 and her B.S. from Northwestern University in 2013. She is admitted to practice in New York.