Simon Cooke
Simon Cooke is a counsel in the Capital Markets and Securities Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.
His practice focuses on convertible notes, PIPE transactions, equity linked instruments and other transactional matters for institutional investors.
- PJT Partners as dealer manager in connection with WeWork’s exchange offers and consent solicitations for $2.5 billion of 144A notes and 1 billion shares of common stock.
- Goldman Sachs and NRG Energy, Inc. in its $2.8 billion acquisition of Vivint Smart Home.
- HPS Investment Partners as lead lender for Bombardier’s $1 billion senior secured term loan facility.
- GTCR in its acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay in a transaction valuing Worldplay at $18.5 billion.
- Goldman Sachs and RBC Bearings in connection with its $1.1 billion concurrent offerings of common stock and mandatory convertible preferred stock and offering of $500 million of unsecured high yield notes.
- Deutsche Bank and Luminar Technologies in its $600 million convertible notes offering.
- Goldman Sachs and Option Care Health in several offerings of common stock.
Some of these representations were handled by Simon prior to joining Haynes Boone.
Education
Master of Law, Columbia Law School, 2015, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
J.D., University of New South Wales, 2013, Order of Merit, Columbia Visiting Scholar
Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting, Macquarie University, 2009
Admissions
New York