Amanda Allexon

Biography

Amanda Allexon is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Financial Institutions Practice. In this role, she advises domestic and foreign banks, bank holding companies, other regulated financial institutions and investors on the full spectrum of transactional, governance, regulatory and supervisory matters, including complex high-profile mergers and acquisitions.  She routinely represents clients before the Federal Reserve, the OCC, the FDIC, and U.S. state banking regulators.  She also advises on private equity investments involving banks and bank holding companies, and Volcker Rule issues.

Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Allexon served as Counsel at Wachtell Lipton, where she specialized in representing financial institutions in a broad range of regulatory matters.  In addition to her private practice experience, Allexon worked in the Legal Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for nearly a decade, including serving as Senior Counsel.  Before joining the Legal Division, she served as Legislative Assistant to Representative James A. Leach, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services.

Allexon received her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law and her B.A. from the University of Iowa.