Lee Meyerson

Lee Meyerson is Chairman and Founding Partner of the Firm’s Financial Institutions Practice and previous Head of our global M&A Practice. He has counseled the world’s elite financial and investment firms on a broad range of transactions, including some of the largest and most complex mergers in the financial services industry. Lee’s practice also includes counseling clients on regulatory matters, corporate governance and shareholder activism, as well as a broad range of capital markets transactions, including IPOs, debt, equity and hybrid capital securities offerings. · Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

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Lee Meyerson is Chairman and Founding Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Financial Institutions Practice and previously led the firm's global M&A Practice. He counsels leading financial and investment firms on complex mergers, regulatory matters, corporate governance, shareholder activism, and capital markets transactions.

Practice areas

Mergers And AcquisitionsFinancial InstitutionsCapital MarketsCorporate GovernanceShareholder ActivismFinancial Services Regulation

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United States

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP · Lee Meyerson is Chairman and Founding Partner of the Firm’s Financial Institutions Practice and previous Head of our global M&A Practice. He has counseled the world’s elite financial and investment firms on a broad range of transactions, including some of the largest and most complex mergers in the financial services industry. Lee’s practice also includes counseling clients on regulatory matters, corporate governance and shareholder activism, as well as a broad range of capital markets transactions, including IPOs, debt, equity and hybrid capital securities offerings.

United States

Expertise

Financial InstitutionsInvestment Firms

Education

A.B., Duke University, 1977 (magna cum laude)
J.D., New York University Law School, 1981 (Editor, New York University Law Review)