Ms. Sinead O’Shea is a partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department, focusing on financing.  She has experience in a broad range of cross-border senior and subordinated financings, with an emphasis on leveraged acquisition finance.

Selected transactions include the representation of:

• KKR in connection with the senior financing for its acquisition of Unisteel Technology Limited in Singapore.
• First Reserve Corp. in connection with the senior financing for its acquisition of CHC Helicopter Corporation.
• First Reserve Corp. in connection with the senior and mezzanine bridge financing for its acquisition of Abbot Group plc.
• KKR, Silver Lake, Bain Capital, Apax and AlpInvest in connection with the high yield bridge financing for their acquisition of NXP B.V. (the Semiconductors Business of Philips NV) and related senior revolving facility.
•  The lead arrangers in connection with the bridge and Tranche C financing for the merger of NTL with Telewest and the subsequent acquisition of Virgin Mobile.
• Apax, Blackstone, KKR, Permira and Providence in connection with the high yield bridge financing for their acquisition of TDC A/S, the former national telecommunications provider of Denmark. 
• Blackstone in connection with the senior financing for its acquisition of New Skies Satellites N.V.
•  Apax in connection with the senior and second lien financings for its acquisition of HIT Entertainment plc.
• KKR and its portfolio company, Rockwood Specialties Chemicals, in connection with the senior financing for their acquisition of the Dynamit Nobel group of companies.
• Blackstone in connection with the senior and high yield bridge financing for its acquisition of Celanese.

Ms. O’Shea joined Simpson Thacher in 2000.  She is currently based in the Firm’s Hong Kong office and has also worked in the Firm’s New York and London offices.  She received an LL.M. in 1996 and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1994 from University College Cork, Ireland and a Barrister-at-law degree in 1998 from the Honorable Society of Kings Inns, Ireland.  She is admitted to the New York bar and the Law Society of England and Wales and practices both New York and English law.

Admissions

•	England and Wales 2003
•	New York 2002
•	Ireland 1998

Education

•	University College Cork, Ireland, 1996 LLM
•	University College Cork, Ireland, 1994 BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law)