Simpson Thacher has a highly successful global IPO practice.  The Firm is extremely adept at assisting both domestic and foreign companies in managing the critical transition from being a private company to being a public reporting company, a process that frequently calls upon skills and experience of a wide range of practice groups within the Firm including the capital markets, tax and benefits practice groups.  Companies seeking to “go public” value the broad expertise that Simpson Thacher brings to preparing the company for its initial public offering, helping it navigate the complexities of the offering process, and advising it with respect to the legal requirements applicable to a public company after a successful IPO. 

The Firm’s wide range of corporate clients and its leading private equity practice, as well as its relationships with its investment banking clients, lead to its involvement in many initial public offerings.  While many of the IPOs are traditional common stock offerings for cash, a large number of these securities transactions are part of a more elaborate restructuring such as a recapitalization or a spin-off or split-off of a subsidiary.