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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices

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NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
NEW YORK
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Mr Barrie Covit

Work Department
Corporate/Private Funds/Investment Funds
Position
Focuses on alternative asset management. Has represented some of the largest and best known sponsors of private equity funds including Carlyle, KKR, BlackRock, J.C. Flowers, Lexington Partners and Corsair Capital. He has represented sponsors of funds that focus on investments in specific asset classes—including energy, financial services and the secondary market—throughout the world, including in Western Europe, South Africa and Brazil. Mr. Covit represented the United States Treasury Department in connection with the establishment of its $30 billion Public-Private Investment Program to purchase legacy assets from financial institutions.
Career
Joined firm, 1998; Partner, 2007.
Education
Columbia Law School (JD 1998); Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; McGill University (BC 1995); James McGill Scholar.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
(Hall of Fame)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is reputed for its strength in real estate funds and on managing secondaries transactions. The team is well versed in private equity fund raises, co-invest vehicles and on establishing separately managed accounts for high profile sponsors and asset managers, with notable names including Blackstone, The Carlyle Group and Oaktree Capital Management. Practice head Michael Wolitzer advises well known private equity funds sponsors and private investment funds across diverse asset classes and sits in New York. Further strengthening the New York office are preeminent corporate and private funds partner Barrie Covit
, Jonathan Karen, who is well versed with infrastructure and real estate funds and secondaries transaction expert Lauren King. Los Angeles based Thomas Wuchenich advises on high-value fund formations and on strategic fund transactions, and is supported by John Kreager and Matthew Kemp, both of whom made partner in January 2024, while in New York Sage Hughes and Jessica O’Connell were made partner in January the previous year.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Private equity funds (including venture capital) United States > Investment fund formation and management
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Fintech