Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP ‘s broad scope of work encompasses regulatory, compliance and governance advice for various fund types and increasingly for business development companies alongside closed-end funds, interval funds and tender offer funds. One preeminent practitioner in this space is practice head Rajib Chanda, who excels across fundraising and transactional mandates for well-known asset managers registered funds. Practicing alongside Chanda from the Washington DC office is David Blass, who specializes in registered fund products, including mutual funds, business development companies, ETFs and closed-end funds, and Ryan Brizek, who works with notable clients, such as JPMorgan and Prudential and Franklin Templeton on private markets strategies. In the New York office Benjamin Wells, who works across various fund types during their launch and the development of retail products, as does Nathan Somogie, who was made partner in January 2024. Christopher Healey left the firm in July 2024.
Key clients
- Affiliated Managers Group
- Angelo Gordon & Co
- Apollo Credit Management LLC
- Apollo Infrastructure Company (AIC)
- AQR Capital Management
- BC Partners
- Benefit Street Partners
- Blackstone Credit
- Blackstone Private Equity Strategies Fund (BXPE)
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Funds
- Blue Owl Capital
- BofA Merrill Lynch
- Capital Research Group (American Funds)
- The Carlyle Group
- Cohen & Steers
- Diameter Capital Partners
- Ecofin Investments, LLC
- EIG Global Energy Partners
- Fidelity Investments (Board)
- First Eagle Credit
- First Eagle Investment Management
- Golub Capital
- HarbourVest Partners
- Investment Company Institute
- Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
- JPMorgan Asset Management
- KKR Asset Management
- KKR Infrastructure Conglomerate (K-Infra)
- KKR Private Equity Conglomerate (KPEC)
- KKR Real Estate
- Legg Mason Closed-end Funds
- Magnetar Capital
- Morgan Stanley
- New Mountain Capital
- Oaktree Capital
- OneIM
- Onex Falcon Investment Advisors, LLC
- Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO)
- PGIM Investments, LLC
- SIFMA Asset Management Group
- Sixth Street
- Skybridge Capital
- Starwood
- Stone Ridge Funds Independent Trustees
- Third Point LLC
- Toronto Dominion Bank
- Tortoise Capital Advisors, L.L.C.
Work highlights
- Advised JPMorgan’s Private Equity Group on the formation and continuous public offering of its first fund for individual investors.
- Advised Portfolio Advisors in its merger with FS Investments, creating a $73 billion alternative investment firm.
- Advised Blackstone in the launch of Blackstone Private Equity Strategies Fund (BXPE), a non-traded private equity fund that is broadly distributed in private placements to high-net-worth investors.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Rajib Chanda