Casey Cogut

Charles “Casey” Cogut is Senior M&A Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. For many years he has been a leading member of STB’s M&A and Private Equity Practices. He specializes in domestic, international and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; the representation of special committees of boards of directors; and buyouts and other transactions involving private equity firms. Casey is well recognized as one of the leading corporate lawyers in the United States. He has been named a “senior statesman” in the practice areas of Corporate-Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity/Buyouts in Chambers Global and Chambers USA Guides. Casey received his J.D. in 1973 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School after graduating summa cum laude from Lehigh University in 1969. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Co-Chair of the Board of Advisors of the University’s Institute for Law and Economics; and a member of the Law School’s adjunct faculty. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.