Owen Lysak

Based in Simpson Thacher’s London office, Owen Lysak founded and co-leads the Firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory practice and co-founded and co-leads the European evergreen private wealth funds practice.

Owen is widely recognized as a leading practitioner advising private funds and alternative asset managers on complex U.K. and EU financial regulatory matters and on the democratization of access by ordinary investors to private markets investments. Owen has deep experience counseling prominent private funds, asset managers and financial institutions on U.K. and EU financial market regulations and transactions, including AIFMD, MiFID II and UCITS, as well as helping asset management firms design, develop and structure investment products, including having advised on many of the leading European private markets retail funds.

His broad practice also includes advising on the regulatory aspects of M&A and restructurings within the financial sector, market abuse regulations, regulatory capital requirements and securities offering rules.

Owen is a regular contributor to regulatory policy debate and development, including in connection with reforms to European legislation including ELTIFs and AIFMD2, U.K. regulatory developments such as the introduction of the Long-Term Asset Fund and the U.K. Consumer Duty, the U.K’.s Patient Capital Review, as well as advising the Investment Association on issues relating to Brexit. Owen is a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) Regulatory Committee.

Partner, joined the Firm in 2020.

London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.B. (2002).