Sean Dougherty

Sean Dougherty is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds group, focusing his practice on retail investment vehicles, capital structuring, governance and related transactions. Sean regularly represents private equity sponsors, issuers, portfolio companies, investors and underwriters on retail vehicle distributions, financings, IPOs, preferred equity issuances, restructurings, follow-on offerings, and other securities transactions.

Sean’s representative transactions have included:

• Apollo in the organization, SEC registration, launch and operation of its infrastructure retail vehicle, AIC, its asset-backed finance retail vehicle, ABC and its insurance-dedicated retail vehicle, APM IDC
• PIMCO in the organization, SEC registration, launch and operation of its asset-backed finance retail vehicle, PALCO
• TPG in the organization, SEC registration, launch and operation of its private equity retail 3c-7 fund
• Blackstone, New Mountain and Blue Yonder in the company’s dual track IPO and ultimate acquisition by Panasonic
• Silver Lake in its acquisition of convertible notes issued by Unity Software for its acquisition of ironSource
• Oaktree Infrastructure Fund in its acquisition of preferred shares of and governance in Watco companies
• Monroe Capital in the organization, SEC registration, launch and operation of its asset-backed finance retail vehicle, MAB
• Laborie Medical / AB Investor in various preferred share acquisition transactions
• Mattress Firm in its proposed IPO and ultimate merger with Tempur Sealy
• Flutter and FanDuel Group in their U.S. IPO
• TPC in its restructuring
• Initial purchasers in the restructuring of LATAM airlines
• Initial purchasers/underwriters in offerings by Carnival Corporation
• Initial purchasers in the inaugural green bond and other offerings by the owner of Circle K
• CBRE Acquisition Holdings in its SPAC IPO and de-SPAC
• TradeStation in its proposed de-SPAC

Sean received his J.D., cum laude, in 2013 from Fordham University School of Law. He received his B.A. in 2004 from University of Vermont, Phi Beta Kappa.