Adam V. Sussman

Adam V. Sussman is a partner in the New York office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and co-chair of the firm's Private Funds and Investment Management group. He has extensive experience counseling private fund sponsors on all aspects of their business, including the organization, marketing, fundraising of their private funds, as well as the organization, ongoing operation, compliance, management, and ownership of asset managers and fund general partners.

His practice focuses on advising sponsors of private equity funds, credit and debt funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, co-investment funds and managed accounts, as well as advising institutional investors with respect to their participation in various types of alternative asset funds.

Adam works with both emerging and established sponsors and has experience spanning the private equity asset class for sponsors with a wide variety of strategies such as buyout, direct lending, structured finance, mezzanine debt, venture capital, crypto, growth equity, energy, and real estate. His practice includes advice with respect to bespoke fund structures, joint ventures, and other strategic arrangements. He engages in pro bono representation, advising on a variety of matters including U.S. veteran disability issues and entrepreneurial business formation.

Adam earned his B.A., with Distinction, in History and Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University, and his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, and holds an M.A. concentrating in Political Economy.

Adam is a board member of the non-profit Join Israel, a member of the Enterprise Club at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Capstone member of the Adam Smith Society at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Adam was a 2024 Fellow of the New York Economic Club.