Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Corporate/Registered Funds/Investment Funds

Neesa Patel Sood is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds practice in the firm’s Washington D.C. office. She advises registered funds, their investment advisers and independent board members across a wide range of complex regulatory, compliance, fund governance, operational and transaction-related matters. She regularly provides advice regarding the structuring, launch and day-to-day operations of registered funds. Neesa also has significant transactional experience, counseling clients on fund restructurings as well as fund and adviser merger and acquisition transactions.

Practicing since 2009; joined Simpson Thacher as a partner in 2025. Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Neesa was a partner at another international law firm.

Member of D.C. Chapters of Women in ETFs and 100 Women in Finance.

Columbia Law School, 2009 J.D.; University of Maryland, 2006 B.S.