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Michael Wolitzer is highly proficient in establishing private equity funds including credit and real asset funds.
Michael Wolitzer
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Michael Wolitzer
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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.
Career
Partner, 1998. Previously served as Chairman of the Firm’s New Partners Committee and currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee.
Professional Memberships
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
Personal
J.D., Columbia Law School, 1989 (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar); A.B., Duke University, 1986 (magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa).
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Michael is our go-to lawyer for our most complex issues.
He is the godfather of private fund work.
Michael is our go-to lawyer for our most complex issues.
He is the godfather of private fund work.
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