Caroline B. Gottschalk is a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the firm’s Corporate Department, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Ms. Gottschalk advises private equity funds, as well as public and private companies, in a wide range of corporate matters, including investments in banks and other financial institutions, domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, divestitures, strategic investments, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, joint ventures and special committee representations.

Recent transactions include advising Centerbridge Partners, The Carlyle Group and The Blackstone Group in connection with their investment in a newly chartered federal savings bank which acquired the banking operations of BankUnited, FSB from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as receiver, The Blackstone Group in its acquisition of hedge fund and asset manager GSO Capital Partners, as well as in its acquisition of a significant stake in Bayview Asset Management, Neff Corp., a construction equipment leasing company, in connection with a senior secured debt exchange, ITT Corporation in its $1.7 billion acquisition of EDO Corp., and the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Biomet Inc. in connection with the $11.4 billion sale of Biomet to a consortium comprised of affiliates of The Blackstone Group, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and TPG. Ms. Gottschalk has also represented The Lightyear Fund in its $900 million leveraged acquisition of Neff Corp., ts leveraged acquisition and subsequent recapitalization of BakerCorp, the sale of Telmar Network Technology to Warburg Pincus and the sale of European brokerage firm Kepler Equities to Landsbanki, ITT Corporation in the sale of its Switches Business to Littlejohn & Co. and the acquisition of International Motion Control, Inc., Aramark Corporation in its acquisition of SeamlessWeb, and Collegiate Funding Services in its sale to J.P. Morgan Bank, N.A. In the past, Ms. Gottschalk has represented H.J. Heinz Company in the spin-off of its North American tuna and pet food business and subsequent merger of that business with Del Monte, and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in its spin-off from IMS Health Incorporated.

Ms. Gottschalk has been a partner at Simpson Thacher since 2000. She received her A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1984, and her J.D. with high honors from Duke Law School in 1990, where she was a member of Order of the Coif and a Member and Managing Editor of the Alaska Law Review. Ms. Gottschalk is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she served until recently as a member of the Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Honors/Associations

•	American Bar Association
•	New York State Bar Association
•	Association of the Bar of the City of New York
•	Duke Law School, Board of Visitors

Publications

•	United States Department of the Treasury Adopts Public-Private Investment Program
•	NYSE Clarifies New Corporate Governance Standard Requiring Shareholder Approval of Equity Compensation Plans

Admissions

•	New York 1991

Education

•	Duke University School of Law, 1990 J.D. With Honors; Order of the Coif; Alaska Law Review, Managing Editor
•	Dartmouth College, 1984 A.B.