Debbie Sutter is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds Practice. Based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Debbie focuses on a broad range of investment management issues related to registered funds, registered investment advisers and fund boards. She advises asset management firms on the operation and formation of investment funds, including interval funds, tender offer funds, listed closed-end funds and business development companies. She advises clients on the formation and operation of investment funds and other products designed to provide retail and high net worth investors access to alternative asset classes, such as private equity, private credit, infrastructure and secondaries.
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Work Highlights
- Counsel to regulated funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, Blackstone and Franklin Templeton
- Advises leading managers of registered funds pursuing secondaries, continuation solutions and co-investments alongside transaction sponsors in the private equity, private credit or infrastructure asset classes, including Franklin Templeton, Lexington and Apollo S3
- Counsel to closed-end funds and BDCs in IPOs and other capital markets offerings, ongoing operations, governance and transactional matters, including fund mergers and defensive measures to seek to protect the interests of long-term shareholders, as well as proxy contests and related standstill arrangements
- Strategic investment management regulatory advice to asset management firms in acquisitions, sales and mergers of asset management businesses, including Apollo in its acquisition of Griffin Capital and Legg Mason-managed closed-end funds in Franklin Templeton’s acquisition of Legg Mason
Education
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William and Mary School of Law, 2015 J.D.
summa cum laude; Order of the Coif
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University of Virginia, 2010 B.A.
Associations
- Co-Chair of the Investment Management Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2022 - Present)
Clerkships
- Hon. Glen E. Conrad, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 2015-2016
Admissions
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District of Columbia 2017
Debbie Sutter is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds Practice. Based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Debbie focuses on a broad range of investment management issues related to registered funds, registered investment advisers and fund boards. She advises asset management firms on the operation and formation of investment funds, including interval funds, tender offer funds, listed closed-end funds and business development companies. She advises clients on the formation and operation of investment funds and other products designed to provide retail and high net worth investors access to alternative asset classes, such as private equity, private credit, infrastructure and secondaries.
Debbie previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Glen E. Conrad of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
Debbie received her J.D. from William and Mary Law School, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, where she was a Communications Editor for The William and Mary Law Review. She received her B.S. from the University of Virginia. Debbie is a contributor to Simpson Thacher’s quarterly Registered Funds Alert.