Jodi Simala Bio

Jodi Simala serves as co-lead of Mayer Brown's Strategic M&A practice. She has over 25 years' experience representing sellers and buyers in connection with domestic and international stock and asset acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, public and private mergers, tender and exchange offers, consent solicitations, recapitalizations and reorganizations technology licensing transactions and venture capital and private equity investments. She represents clients engaged in a wide range of industries, including gaming, food and beverage, hospitality and leisure, financial services, fintech, IoT, and automotive. Jodi's practice includes representation of issuers and selling securityholders in connection with public and private sales of debt and equity securities. She also counsels boards of directors and management regarding fiduciary duties, corporate governance and defensive measures, including stockholders' rights plans and other matters, and she advises public companies regarding SEC reporting, compliance and disclosure issues. Jodi is recognized as a leading M&A lawyer in Chambers USA (2012-2025), characterizing her as "highly experienced in corporate securities and M&A, with a great sense of market terms."Clients in Chambers USA also note "she is a well-rounded adviser who is very knowledgeable, super responsive, extremely creative, and she never misses a detail" and "she's able to do complex thinking in a short amount of time and quickly gets her head around issues." Jodi was selected by Law360, a leading industry publication, as one of the "Top 10 Female DealMakers" in M&A. The honorees "have helped complete some of the biggest deals in the business and established themselves as leaders in their field," the publication said. Jodi was also named a 2022 “Client Service All-Star” in M&A by BTI Consulting Group.