Michael Wolitzer

Simpson Thacher's Chair of Funds and Funds Adjacencies, focusing on private investing and other facets of "alternative asset management." Has represented some of the largest and most well-known sponsors of private investment funds, including AEA, Blackstone, Centerbridge, J.P. Morgan, Patria, Painswick Capital and Sixth Street. In addition to private equity funds, has represented sponsors in other alternative asset classes, including real estate, energy/infrastructure, secondaries and credit/distressed debt, as well as on SMAs and fund structured products. Also has represented global financial institutions in the establishment of their employee investment programs; family offices on their investment activities; acquisitions of, and investments in, private investment firms (including several minority stakes and control transactions); buyers, sellers and sponsors regarding the disposition of private fund interests, GP-Led Secondaries and other secondary transactions; and founders and other stakeholders in connection with carried interest and other customized internal arrangements.

Partner, 1998. Previously served as Chairman of the Firm’s New Partners Committee and currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee.

New York State Bar Association; Private Investment Fund Forum, Executive Committee and former Chairman; Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association; International Bar Association, Member and former Co-Chairman, Committee on Private Investment Funds

J.D., Columbia Law School, 1989 (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar); A.B., Duke University, 1986 (magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa).