Mark Myott

Mark Myott is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice with broad experience representing corporate and private equity clients in complex and high-profile transactions. He frequently advises clients in connection with leveraged buyout transactions, mergers, spin-offs, recapitalizations, restructurings, growth equity and venture capital investments and other complex transactions across a wide variety of sectors, with numerous representations in the technology and healthcare sectors.

Recently, Mark was named among 2022’s “Lawyers on the Fast Track” by The Recorder, honoring the next generation of legal leaders aged 40 and under in California. He was also recognized by Law360 as a “Rising Star” in Mergers and Acquisitions for 2022.

Mark’s experience includes the representation of:

• Silver Lake in multiple transactions, including its acquisition of Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. at an equity value of $13 billion and enterprise value of $25 billion; investments in Carta, Entrata, Plaid, Clari and Unity Software; and SoFi’s $8.65 billion merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. V, a SPAC
• EQT in multiple transactions, including its acquisitions of Parexel for $8.5 billion, Cast & Crew, Certara, Heritage Environmental Services, Radius Global Infrastructure, Storable, Waystar with CPPIB, and Zeus Industrial Products; investment in Cirba Solutions; joint venture with Americold Realty Trust; and sales of Press Ganey and Acumatica
• Hellman & Friedman in multiple transactions, including its majority investment in Medline Industries with Carlyle and Blackstone; acquisitions of Ultimate Software, Checkmarx and SnapAV; combination of ABRA Auto Body & Glass and Caliber Collision; minority strategic investment in PointClickCare Technologies; and sales of Openlink to ION and Renaissance Learning to Francisco Partners
• Blackstone in multiple transactions, including Bumble Inc.’s announced $1.3 billion acquisition by Ithaca Holdings; its acquisition of a majority stake in MagicLab (the parent company of Bumble); acquisition of a significant minority equity interest in Walker Edison; and investments in Chainalysis and Cylance
• Haveli Investments in multiple transactions, including its majority recapitalization investment, together with Bregal Milestone, in M-Files Corporation
• Butterfly Equity in multiple transactions, including its establishment of a flavor investment platform with Graham Partners and its acquisition, together with Platinum Equity, of Rise Baking Company
• Cohesity in its acquisition of Veritas’ data protection business
• ByteDance in the establishment of TikTok Joint Venture
• TPG in its acquisitions of Waste Eliminator and Liberty Waste Solutions through its TPG Transition Infrastructure strategy
• Turn/River Capital in its strategic investment in StarLIMS
• Waystar in its $1.25 billion acquisition of Iodine Software, as well as its acquisitions of eSolutions and Patientco
• Dell Technologies in the spin-off of VMware, as well as in VMware’s earlier acquisition of Pivotal Software
• PPD in its $17.4 billion acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Apollo in its $5 billion acquisition of The Michaels Companies
• Warburg Pincus in its investments in Clearwater Analytics, Helix, Silk Road Medical and Outset Medical
• TCV in its strategic partnership with Sportradar, investment in First Due alongside JMI Equity, acquisition of a controlling interest in Watermark Insights and sale of Watermark Insights to Main Capital Partners

Mark received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.S. from Gannon University. He is admitted to practice in New York and California.