Practice Areas
Managing Partner of Simpson Thacher’s Financial Institutions Practice, Sven Mickisch advises on complex, high profile and often groundbreaking transactions and corporate matters across the financial services space. He has significant experience advising financial institutions in mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, consortia and financing transactions and has handled numerous restructurings and recapitalizations of financial institutions. He also regularly advises private equity firms transacting in the financial services sector. Sven has been repeatedly recognized by New York Law Journal, Who’s Who Legal, Law360 and Euromoney.
Personal
Columbia University School of Law, J.D. (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2005; London School of Economics and Political Science, LL.B. (Sir Morris Finer Memorial Prize), 2004.