There were five deals reported in the last seven days that tipped over the $5 billion mark, including Thermo Fisher Scientific’s $20.9 billion buy of PPD, Kimco Realty Corp.’s $12 billion merger with Weingarten Realty Investors and, on Monday, Webster Financial Corp.’s all-stock merger with Sterling Bancorp, valued at $10.3 billion. Two partners at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett managed to have a hand in a lot of the above, helping to shepherd several 11-figure deals.

Simpson Thacher partners Alan Klein and Atif Azher managed to touch about $90 billion worth of activity in one week. They worked with PPD in its $20.9 billion sale to Thermo Fisher, and a day earlier Atif co-led the Simpson Thacher team advising Dell Technologies in its announced agreement to spinoff its 81% equity ownership interest in VMware, with media reports valuing the deal at more than $52 billion. Last Monday, Klein co-led the Simpson team advising Microsoft in its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance. 

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