Ellen Patterson is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions, particularly for the Firm’s financial institution clients. She recently represented Japan’s Monex Group in its acquisition of U.S. brokerage firm TradeStation Group and TD Bank Group in its acquisition of Chrysler Financial.  She has represented multiple strategic and private equity clients in bids for assets and/or deposits of failed banks and thrifts from the FDIC, including representing East West Bancorp in its acquisition of the banking operations of United Commercial Bank from the FDIC and its concurrent $500 million private capital raise. She has represented TD Bank Group in multiple other transactions, including its acquisitions of The South Financial Group and Commerce Bancorp, its simultaneous acquisitions of the banking operations of three banks in Florida, the sale of its TD Waterhouse subsidiary to Ameritrade, its acquisition of a majority interest in TD Banknorth, and its subsequent acquisition of the remaining minority interests in TD Banknorth.  Ms. Patterson’s other financial institution experience includes representing Corsair Capital as the lead private equity investor in National City Corporation’s $7 billion capital raise, Irving Place Capital and other private equity investors in their majority investment in Doral Financial Corp., UBS AG in its acquisition of Brazilian investment bank Banco Pactual, Independence Community Bank Corp. in its sale to Sovereign Bancorp and the underwriters in Hudson City Bancorp’s $3.93 billion second-step conversion and common stock offering.

Ms. Patterson has been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2011 as a national leader in Financial Institutions M&A and by The New York Times as one of the next generation of deal makers in “The Facebook of Wall Street’s Future.” She is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Finance Committee and a former member of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests.

Ms. Patterson joined Simpson Thacher following her graduation from Columbia Law School in 1998. At Columbia, she was a member of the Columbia Law Review. She received her B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College in 1995.

Publications

•	Regulating Systemically Important Financial Companies
•	Financial Stability Oversight Council Releases Proposed Rules and Interpretive Guidance on Designations of Systemically Important Nonbank Financial Companies
•	Regulations Proposed to Implement the Volcker Rule
•	Federal Reserve Issues Regulations for Savings and Loan Holding Companies
•	Reflections on Dodd-Frank: A Look Back and a Look Forward
•	Federal Reserve Proposes Changes to Regulation Z to Implement New “Ability-to-Repay” Requirement for Residential Mortgage Loans
•	U.S. Banking Regulators Order Changes to Policies and Practices of Major Mortgage Servicers
•	Securitization After Dodd-Frank: A Look at the Proposed Risk Retention Rules
•	U.S. Regulators Propose Rules on Incentive-Based Compensation Arrangements at Large Financial Institutions
•	Federal Reserve Issues Proposed Transition Rules for “Volcker Rule” Compliance
•	The Volcker Rule Provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
•	U.S. Congress Nears Completion of Landmark Financial Services Reform Legislation
•	The Impact on Private Equity and Hedge Funds of the Financial Regulatory Reform Bills: A Legislative Update
•	FDIC Issues Guidance on Policy Statement for Investments in Failed Banks
•	FDIC Adopts Final Statement of Policy on Private Investor Purchases of Failed Banks
•	FDIC Proposed Policy Statement on Private Capital Investor Purchases of Failed Banks
•	Treasury Department Outlines Reforms to U.S. Financial Supervision and Regulation

Admissions

•	New York 1999

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 1998 J.D. Columbia Law Review, 1996-1998
•	Harvard University, 1995 B.A. cum laude