Barrie B Covit

Barrie is the co-head of Simpson Thacher's Investment Funds practice, and widely recognized as one of the foremost attorneys in the alternative asset management field. The world's most prominent and sophisticated private equity sponsors turn to Barrie for counsel on their bespoke, complex and high-stakes decisions at the fund and management-company level, including fundraising initiatives, business strategy. legal and regulatory risk, new product development and product line expansion, liquidity events and restructurings, internal firm matters, and other extraordinary fundraising and operational issues.

Barrie has guided investment fund sponsors on over $200 billion of private equity fund formations for clients including Carlyle, KKR, BlackRock, Lexington Partners, J.C. Flowers, Corsair Capital and EQT among many others, focused on a broad range of strategies, including private equity, energy, credit, infrastructure, financial services and the secondary market. These engagements span all global markets, including across Western Europe, South Africa and Brazil.

Clients have routinely turned to Barrie to navigate the most significant and transformative matters facing fund sponsors and their platforms. Notably, he represented the United States Treasury Department in connection with the establishment of its $30 billion Public-Private Investment Program to purchase legacy assets from financial institutions, a landmark: engagement at the intersection of private capital and public policy. He also plays a leading role in the firm's development of fund formation technology and Al-enabled solutions designed to enhance client service, improve efficiency and deliver deeper insights to sponsors navigating complex fund formation and business challenges.

Year after year, Barrie has been consistently ranked for his cutting-edge work in fund formation by leading publications, including Chambers & Partners, Law360, Legal 500, IFLR 1000 and the Financial Times in its "US Innovative Lawyers" issue.

Joined Firm, 1998; Partner, 2007.