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Silver Lake Leads $500 Million Investment Round in SoFi

02.28.17

Simpson Thacher is representing Silver Lake Partners (“Silver Lake”) in connection with Silver Lake’s role as the lead investor of a $500 million strategic growth investment in Social Finance, Inc. (“SoFi”), an online personal finance company. The investment round brings SoFi’s total equity funding to $1.9 billion. SoFi plans to use the funds to accelerate its expansion into new product areas and countries outside the United States.

The Simpson Thacher team includes Bill Dougherty and Izzy Lubarsky (M&A); Lori Lesser and Genevieve Dorment (Intellectual Property); Michael Naughton and William Kearney (Antitrust); Tristan Brown and Paul Barrus (ECEB); John Schueller (Securitizations); Mark Chorazak (Regulatory); and Tanvi Mirani (Tax).