US firms Simpson Thacher and Wilson Sonsini connect for Microsoft’s $26.2bn LinkedIn purchase Matthew Field13 June 2016Corporate and M&AUS firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati have advised on Microsoft’s acquisition of professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2bn.Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or subscribe. Corporate users - click here for simple access (no password needed). For more information, please contact jasmine.glass@legalbusiness.co.uk Related ContentKirkland, Latham, A&O Shearman among latest to cut deals with Trump administrationUS firms in rude health as Simpson Thacher, Gibson Dunn, Paul Hastings and others enjoy double-digit hikesRevolving Doors: Paul Hastings picks up White & Case infra team while Bakers makes double hire in LondonTop lawyers in Boston, Miami, Charlotte revealed in latest Legal 500 US elite rankingsA&O Shearman and Freshfields both make up nine London lawyers in latest partnership roundsTop UK firms ramp up New York M&A hiring with fivefold increase in three years‘There’s a lot of money in Chicago’ – the city’s top lawyers on what’s driving business in the MidwestLegal 500 US: Latham tops the charts in new US rankingsRevolving Doors: Travers and Shearman exodus continues as US firms pick up the talent