A three-decade investment-banking vet, Simon was a player in Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox’s entertainment assets, completed in March 2019. More recently, he’s advised on iHeartMedia’s post-bankruptcy direct listing on Nasdaq, Alibaba’s $20 billion spinout from Yahoo and SoftBank’s $20 billion monetization of T-Mobile U.S. He upped his philanthropy game, joining the board of the Posse Foundation, created to provide scholarships and support to students from diverse backgrounds. Simon joined Goldman Sachs in August 2018 after leaving JPMorgan Chase, where, as global chairman of mergers and acquisitions, he was involved in big deals including Yahoo’s $4.8 billion sale to Verizon, Sprint’s $59 billion sale to T-Mobile, WebMD’s $2.8 billion sale to KKR & Co. and AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
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