Profile: Alan M Klein

Mergers and Acquisitions

Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions

Alan Klein is a partner with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he is a member of the firm's corporate department and co-chair of the firm's international practice committee. Mr Klein has represented Microsoft Corporation in its approach to Yahoo!; Gas Natural SA in its US$30 billion bid for Endesa; Rinker Group Limited in connection with its acquisition by Cemex; Portugal Telecom in connection with the unsolicited offer made for it by Sonae; Gerdau in its acquisition of Quanex Corporation; Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation in its acquisition of Chaparral Steel Company; Bavaria SA, Latin America's second-largest brewer, in its sale to SABMiller; Owens-Illinois Inc in its acquisition of French packaging company BSN Glasspack from CVC Europe and in its disposition of Owens-Brockway Plastic Products Inc; Merck & Co in its tender offer for shares of Banyu, a Japanese pharmaceutical company; Telefonica Moviles in its acquisition of a non-US cellular phone companies from Motorola; Pechiney in its proposed three-way merger with Alcan Aluminum and Alusuisse; and Quadrangle Group LLC, a merchant banking fund, in a number of its recent investments.

From 1994 to 1998, Mr Klein was resident in the firm's London office, and worked on international transactions, including numerous mergers and initial public offerings by British, French, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish companies.

Mr Klein joined the firm in 1984 and became a partner in 1993. He received his BA with Honours in History in 1981 from Haverford College. He received his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1984.