Lesley Peng is a partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department. Ms. Peng’s practice focuses on corporate finance and general corporate matters, and she has represented both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, high yield financings, convertible debt and preferred stock offerings and other public and private corporate finance transactions.

Ms. Peng’s financial institutions practice includes initial public offerings and a broad range of equity, debt and hybrid capital securities offerings. She advised the underwriters in the $167 million initial public offering of First Interstate BancSystem in March 2010, which was the first initial public offering of a financial institution since the financial crisis, and represented The Blackstone Group on its $4.8 billion initial public offering in June 2007. In addition, she represented the underwriters in First Horizon’s $750 million concurrent common stock and senior debt offerings in December 2010, advised JPMorgan in its $5.8 billion common stock offering to repay its TARP preferred stock in June 2009 and represented the issuer and underwriters in numerous other capital markets transactions for banks, thrifts, insurance companies and other financial services companies.

Ms. Peng also represented the underwriters in the concurrent $800 million initial public offering and $500 million high yield offering for Swift Transportation in December 2010. She regularly represents investment banking firms and issuers in secured and unsecured high yield offerings, including issuances by EXCO Resources, Marquette Transportation and Smithfield Foods.  Other transactions Ms. Peng has worked on include representing Microsoft Corporation in June 2010 in its $1.2 billion convertible debt offering and, in August 2008, representing RadioShack Corporation in its $325 million convertible debt offering. Ms. Peng has also represented other major investment banking firms, including Citigroup, Goldman, Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank, in debt and equity capital markets transactions for a variety of issuers.

Ms. Peng joined Simpson Thacher in 1999 and became a partner in 2008. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, magna cum laude, in 1996 and her J.D. from Harvard University in 1999. She is admitted to practice in New York.

Publications

•	Reflections on Dodd-Frank: A Look Back and a Look Forward
•	U.S. Congress Nears Completion of Landmark Financial Services Reform Legislation
•	Restructuring Public Debt – An Overview of the Legal Framework

Admissions

•	New York 2000

Education

•	Harvard Law School, 1999 J.D.
•	UCLA, 1996 B.A. magna cum laude