Katie Thomas (Simmonds)

Katie has been part of the teams advising:

• Transaction Committee of the Board of Directors of Reynolds American Inc. in the $60.6 billion sale to British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BAT) of the 57.8% of Reynolds stock that BAT did not already own
• MSP Recovery, LLC in its $32.6 billion business combination with Lionheart Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by Lionheart Equities
• Sanofi in its $11.6 billion acquisition of Bioverativ Inc., and its $2.9 billion acquisition of Provention Bio Inc., and its pending approximately $2.2 billion acquisition of Inhibrx, Inc.
• Evercore, as financial advisor to CoreSite Realty Corporation, in the $10.1 billion acquisition of CoreSite by American Tower Corporation
• Apergy Corporation (n/k/a ChampionX Corporation) in a Reverse Morris Trust acquisition of ChampionX (f/k/a Nalco Champion) from Ecolab Inc. creating an entity with a combined $7.4 billion enterprise value
• athenahealth, Inc. in its $5.7 billion sale to Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital (an affiliate of Elliott Management Corporation) and planned combination with Virence Health
• Centerview Partners, as financial advisor to Cantel Medical Corp., in its $4.6 billion sale to STERIS plc
• Straight Path Communications Inc. in its $3.1 billion sale to Verizon Communications, Inc.
• MGM Resorts International in its $1.625 billion acquisition of the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
• Avista Healthcare Public Acquisition Corp. in its acquisition of Organogenesis Inc. and its proposed merger with Envigo International Holdings, Inc.
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. in its up to $740 million sale of Avera Semiconductor LLC and its $430 million sale of a semiconductor fabrication plant for the manufacture of 300mm-size wafers used in the production of integrated circuits to ON Semiconductor Corporation
• Heartland Dental Care, LLC in the sale, by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and other existing shareholders, of a majority stake in Heartland to KKR & Co., with Ontario Teachers' retaining a sizeable ownership stake
• Irving Place Capital Management and Agiliti Holdco, Inc. (f/k/a Universal Hospital Services, Inc.) in Agliti’s combination with Federal Street Acquisition Corp. (FSAC), a SPAC sponsored by Thomas H. Lee Partners, in a new holding company formed by FSAC named Agiliti Health, Inc. (n/k/a Agiliti, Inc.), having an implied enterprise value of approximately $1.74 billion
• SiriusXM in its acquisition of a minority stake in SoundCloud Ltd.
• Software Luxembourg Holding S.A. in its $1.3 billion merger with and into Churchill Capital Corp II, a SPAC sponsored by the Churchill Capital Group

Katie received her L.L.B. and B.Com. from the University of Sydney.