Skip To The Main Content Client Services Our Team Your Career Contact List (0) About Us Offices Search Private Funds Home> Practices> Corporate> Investment Funds> Private Funds OVERVIEW Our preeminent Private Funds Practice has represented private funds clients for over 40 years, playing a prominent role in the development of the private funds industry and earning us a unique leadership role in the sector. Working closely with lawyers in the Firm’s other practice areas, our team provides comprehensive advice to many of the world’s best-known institutional alternative asset managers, as well as smaller first-time funds and independent boutiques. Through our representation of a diverse group of sponsors, we have established a track record for adding value to our clients’ fundraisings and have developed an acute understanding of custom and practice in the private funds marketplace. That, in turn, allows us to provide clients with the commercially driven, practical advice that they require. We represent sponsors and sophisticated investors in: Private equity funds Hedge funds Real estate funds Energy/infrastructure funds Credit funds (including mezzanine, senior loan and distressed) Secondary funds Venture capital funds Fund-of-funds Other types of funds pursuing “alternative investment” strategies In addition, we routinely structure our clients’ internal arrangements and employee investment arrangements. We also have substantial experience in M&A transactions involving private investment firms, initial public offerings of alternative asset managers, credit facilities for funds and their managers and secondary transfers of private fund investments. With dedicated fund formation teams in New York, London, Hong Kong, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Houston, Simpson Thacher has an unsurpassed breadth of experience in organizing private funds of all types around the globe. We offer U.S. and English law capability in advising sponsors of private funds throughout the world. #1 Globally #1 in the U.S., the U.K., Asia and globally (Chambers) Largest Fundraisings Simpson Thacher acted as sponsor counsel on many of the largest private equity fundraisings launched in the U.S. and Europe since 2009, including: Fund Total Commitments Blackstone Real Estate Partners IX $20 billion CVC Capital Partners VII €16 billion Blackstone Capital Partners VII $18 billion Silver Lake Partners V $15 billion Seventh Cinven Fund €10 billion Platinum Equity Capital Partners V $10 billion EQT Infrastructure IV €9 billion Apax IX $9 billion Carlyle Europe Partners V €6.4 billion New Mountain Partners V $6.15 billion Affinity Asia Pacific Fund V $6 billion Digital Colony Fund $4.05 billion Technology Crossover Ventures X $3 billion Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III $3 billion Morgan Stanley’s North Haven Real Estate Fund IX Global $2.7 billion KKR Real Estate Partners Americas II $2 billion $15.8 billion $15.8 billion “They were terrific, hands down fantastic, incredibly well organised, great at project management, very commercial and became part of the in house team.” – Chambers UK (quoting a client) Related Practice Areas Private Equity Lifecycle Funds Regulatory and Investigations IN THIS SECTION Investment Funds Private Funds Registered Funds Fund Finance Funds Regulatory and Investigations CONTACT Michael W. Wolitzer Partner +1-212-455-7440 mwolitzer@stblaw.com SPOTLIGHT ON Simpson Thacher Advises on Four of the Top Ten Largest Private Equity Funds Raised in First Three Quarters of 2021 Read more > SPOTLIGHT ON Simpson Thacher’s Private Equity Team Named New York Law Journal “Dealmaker of the Year” Read more > SPOTLIGHT ON Simpson Thacher Advises on Six of the Top Ten Largest Private Equity Funds Post-GFC Read more > Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Contact Us Subscribe Site Map Extranets Disclaimers Privacy LLP Info Directory Local Language Pages: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Japanese Portuguese Spanish