Profile: Richard I Beattie
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Law Firm: | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP |
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| Office: |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 425 Lexington Avenue NY 10017-3954 |
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| City: | New York | |
| State: | New York | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 212 455 2635 | |
| Fax: | +1 212 455 2502 | |
| Email: | rbeattie@stblaw.com |
Mergers and Acquisitions
Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions
Richard Beattie is chairman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he specialises in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and corporate law and finance. Mr Beattie has counselled numerous boards and non-management directors on governance issues, investigations and litigation involving corporate officers and other crisis situations. He has also participated in some of the larger and more complex financial transactions, including JP Morgan Chase & Co's $58 billion acquisition of Bank One Corporation, the merger of America Online and Time Warner and the merger of WellPoint Health Networks with Anthem Inc.Mr Beattie has a long record of public service. During the Carter administration, he served as general counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and in 1980, served as director of the transition and counsel to the secretary of education and was in charge of organising the US Department of Education. During the 1980s, Mr Beattie served on the New York City Board of Education. He has served as a special adviser to the secretary of state and from 1995 to 1997 was President Clinton's emissary for Cyprus.
Mr Beattie is also chairman of the board and founder of New Visions for Public Schools, a not-for-profit organisation that develops and implements programmes to effect system-wide improvements in public education in New York City. He is also a member of the board of directors of Harley-Davidson Inc, Heidrick & Struggles and the National Women's Law Center, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and vice chairman of the board of overseers and managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and chairman of the board of managers of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases. He has served on the board of trustees of WNET/Channel Thirteen and as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation. Mr Beattie is the recipient of a Bank Street College Honorary Doctorate of Education and the President's Medal, the Legal Aid Society's Servant of Justice Award and the Jewish Theological Seminary's Judge Simon H Rifkind Award.
Mr Beattie joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 1968 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to law school, he served for four years in the Marine Corps as a jet pilot after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1961.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
Corporate Governance
Biography: Corporate Governance
Richard Beattie is chairman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he specialises in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs and corporate law and finance. Mr Beattie has counselled numerous boards and non-management directors on governance issues, investigations and litigation involving corporate officers and other crisis situations. He has also participated in some of the larger and more complex financial transactions, including JP Morgan Chase & Co's US$58 billion acquisition of Bank One Corporation, the merger of America Online and Time Warner and the merger of WellPoint Health Networks with Anthem Inc.Mr Beattie has a long record of public service. During the Carter administration, he served as general counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and in 1980, as director of the transition and counsel to the secretary of education, he was in charge of organising the US Department of Education. During the 1980s, Mr Beattie served on the New York City Board of Education. He has served as a special adviser to the secretary of state and during 1995 and 1997 and was President Clinton's emissary for Cyprus.
Mr Beattie is also chairman of the board and founder of New Visions for Public Schools, a not-for-profit organisation that develops and implements programmes to effect system-wide improvements in public education in New York City. He is also a member of the board of directors of Harley-Davidson Inc, Heidrick & Struggles, the National Women's Law Center, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is vice chairman of the board of overseers and managers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and chairman of the board of managers of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases. He has served on the board of trustees of WNET/Channel Thirteen and as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation. Mr Beattie is the recipient of a Bank Street College honorary doctorate of education and the President's Medal, the Legal Aid Society's Servant of Justice Award and the Jewish Theological Seminary's Judge Simon H Rifkind Award.
Mr Beattie joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 1968 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before law school, he served for four years in the Marine Corps as a jet pilot after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1961.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.