Barrie Covit is a Corporate Partner in the Firm’s New York office, where he focuses on private funds and other facets of "alternative asset management". He has represented some of the largest and most well-known sponsors of private equity funds including The Carlyle Group, First Reserve Corporation, J.C. Flowers & Co and Lexington Partners.  He has also represented sponsors of funds that focus on investments in specific asset classes (including energy, financial services and the secondary market) in regions throughout the world (including Western Europe and South Africa).

Mr. Covit currently represents the United States Treasury Department in connection with the $500 billion Public-Private Investment Program to purchase legacy assets from financial institutions. 

Mr. Covit has significant experience structuring the portfolio investments of private equity sponsors, particularly in the financial services and energy sectors.  In addition, he reviews private fund investments on behalf of private equity investors.

Mr. Covit graduated from McGill University in 1995, where he was a James McGill Scholar. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1998, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a member of the Columbia Business Law Review.  Mr. Covit joined Simpson Thacher in 1998.

Publications

•	Getting The Deal Through - Private Equity 2009
•	New Jersey Court Protects Private Equity Funds’ Confidential Agreements With State From Disclosure

Speaking Engagements

•	Barrie Covit to Speak at PEI Investor Relations & Communications Forum May 13, 2008

Admissions

•	New York 1999

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 1998 J.D. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Columbia Business Law Review
•	McGill University, 1995 B.C. James McGill Scholar