Alan M. Klein

Simpson Thacher was recognized at the 2024 LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards for its role representing Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. in the acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company for a total equity value of approximately $14 billion, which was named an “Impact Deal of the Year.” The Simpson Thacher team advising Karuna on this matter was led by Alan Klein, Eric Swedenburg and Jakob Rendtorff.

Jun 9

1 min

Corporate Partners Alan Klein and Marni Lerner have been named among the “Dealmakers of the Year” for 2023 in The Hollywood Reporter’s “Top Dealmakers” feature. Alan was recognized for his role advising Microsoft in its $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. “No deal this year made a bigger splash,” THR wrote. Marni was honored for her work guiding KKR in its $1.62 billion acquisition of Simon & Schuster.~~THR’s “Top Dealmakers” feature recognizes the lawyers, bankers, representatives and executives who negotiated some of the year’s most interesting and high-value deals in the entertainment industry.~~To read the full article, please click here.

Jan 12

1 min

Corporate Partner Alan Klein was quoted in Semafor’s Business newsletter discussing predictions for the M&A market in the coming year. Alan, who was also highlighted for advising Twitter’s Board of Directors in the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk, noted that “The peak to valley from 2021 to mid-2023 was stunning. The recovery has begun, slowly. The frenzied phase where every CEO and private equity firm is suffering from acute FOMO won’t be achieved until 2025 at the earliest.”~~To read the full newsletter, please click here.~~

Dec 22

1 min

Partner Alan Klein was featured in a Harvard Law Today article discussing the launch of a new Transactional Law Workshop at Harvard Law School, which will be co-taught by Alan and David Sorkin, a former partner at Simpson Thacher and the former Chief Legal Officer, and a current senior advisory partner, of KKR, Inc. The Q&A discussion details how the new course, which will be held in the spring semester of the 2023-2024 school year, will provide students with an opportunity to work with lawyers, M&A advisers and business clients to learn the ins and outs of complex corporate transactions. The new offering will provide hands-on experience with reviewing, drafting and negotiating transaction-related documents as part of a simulated mergers and acquisition transaction. When speaking to what inspired this new course and its importance for today’s students, Alan explains, “the Transactional Law Workshop will give Harvard Law students an opportunity to put into practice the legal principles that they have been learning in other courses. They’ll discover that the issue spotting that they have applied to case law really matters in reviewing transactional documents, for example.” He goes on further to state how learning how to “think like a lawyer” was a valuable tool he developed when he was a student at Harvard Law School and one that has been fundamental to his legal career.~~To read the full article, please click here.

Oct 5

1 min