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Marni Lerner

Co-Head of the Firm’s Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, Marni Lerner has extensive experience representing a mix of private equity and corporate clients, including family and founder-owned companies, in mergers and acquisitions, public and private divestitures, strategic investments and securities law matters. In her more than 25 years of corporate deal making, Marni has consistently worked on a variety of significant, complex and record-breaking transactions for a wide range of clients. Her representations have included KKR and its portfolio companies on transactions involving Simon & Schuster, Omnissa, Instructure, Neighborly, Teaching Strategies, OverDrive Holdings, BMC, Del Monte Foods and Internet Brands. Marni has also advised Charlesbank Capital Partners, Integrum and Butterfly Equity, among others. · Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

United StatesMergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity
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Marni Lerner is Co-Head of Simpson Thacher's Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions Practice with over 25 years of experience representing private equity and corporate clients in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and securities law matters.

Practice areas

Mergers and AcquisitionsPrivate EquitySecurities Law

Office

United States

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP · Co-Head of the Firm’s Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, Marni Lerner has extensive experience representing a mix of private equity and corporate clients, including family and founder-owned companies, in mergers and acquisitions, public and private divestitures, strategic investments and securities law matters. In her more than 25 years of corporate deal making, Marni has consistently worked on a variety of significant, complex and record-breaking transactions for a wide range of clients. Her representations have included KKR and its portfolio companies on transactions involving Simon & Schuster, Omnissa, Instructure, Neighborly, Teaching Strategies, OverDrive Holdings, BMC, Del Monte Foods and Internet Brands. Marni has also advised Charlesbank Capital Partners, Integrum and Butterfly Equity, among others.

United States

Expertise

Private Equity Buyouts

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1991 (cum laude)
  • B.A., Amherst College, 1988 (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa)