Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP today announced that Stephanie Epstein Srulowitz will join as a Partner in the Investment Funds Practice, strengthening the Firm’s market-leading fund formation and fundraising team.
“Stephanie is one of the most sought-after fund formation attorneys in the world, and she will immediately have a central role in setting the strategic direction for the Firm’s Investment Funds and related practices, and in driving their continued growth and development,” said Jonathan Karen, Co-Head of Simpson Thacher’s Investment Funds Practice.
“Stephanie’s commercial judgment and complementary experience meaningfully amplifies our Investment Funds Practice and our longstanding leadership in fund formation and fundraising,” added Barrie Covit, Co-Head of Simpson Thacher’s Investment Funds Practice.
“Simpson Thacher’s Investment Funds team is known not only for the scale and sophistication of its platform, but for the holistic, solutions-oriented counsel it provides to sponsors on their most important matters,” said Stephanie. “That approach aligns perfectly with how I work with clients, and I am excited to join a team that is shaping the next evolution of fund formation and fundraising.”
Stephanie brings more than two decades of experience representing private investment fund sponsors in connection with the formation, structuring and negotiation of their investment funds, as well as in secondaries transactions, carried interest arrangements, governance structuring and fundraising-related matters. Stephanie is widely recognized as a leading fund formation lawyer, with accolades across Chambers, Law360, The Legal 500, IFLR1000 and others.
Simpson Thacher’s Investment Funds Practice has advised leading asset managers and private fund sponsors for more than 40 years across fund formation, fundraising, regulatory, governance, strategic transactions, financings and secondaries matters. The Practice is ranked Band 1 globally for Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation by Chambers, a distinction it has held every year since 2008, and the Firm has served as fund counsel to more $10+ billion private equity funds than any other law firm.
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