Josh Bonnie is one of the preeminent IPO lawyers in the nation and regularly counsels public companies on general corporate and securities law matters.

Josh was featured in The American Lawyer’s “Dealmakers of the Year” in 2008, is recognized in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Legal 500 United States as one of the leading capital markets practitioners in the United States, and is endorsed by PLC Which Lawyer?. Chambers says “[a]s a young up-and-coming name, Joshua Ford Bonnie is considered one of the sector’s future stars. Numerous sources refer to his “tremendously knowledgeable and calm demeanor” as well as his “practical sense and deep understanding of his client’s issues.”

Josh graduated from the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law. After serving as a law clerk to the Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr. (E.D. Va.), Josh joined Simpson Thacher in 1996.