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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices

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NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
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Neesa Patel Sood

Work Department
Corporate/Registered Funds/Investment Funds
Position
Neesa Patel Sood is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds practice in the firm’s Washington D.C. office. She advises registered funds, their investment advisers and independent board members across a wide range of complex regulatory, compliance, fund governance, operational and transaction-related matters. She regularly provides advice regarding the structuring, launch and day-to-day operations of registered funds. Neesa also has significant transactional experience, counseling clients on fund restructurings as well as fund and adviser merger and acquisition transactions.
Career
Practicing since 2009; joined Simpson Thacher as a partner in 2025. Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Neesa was a partner at another international law firm.
Memberships
Member of D.C. Chapters of Women in ETFs and 100 Women in Finance.
Education
Columbia Law School, 2009 J.D.; University of Maryland, 2006 B.S.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
(Next Generation Partners)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has strong regulatory knowledge and experience of registering and taxing alternative funds like BREITs and private equity strategies funds. The group is strong on the transactional side, particularly increasingly when it comes to acting for business development companies in mergers and fund launches. Practice head Rajib Chanda counts prestigious private retail funds and asset managers among his client base. Other key clients are business development companies, an increasing area of focus for the group who Steven Grigoriou regularly assists. Well-known names such as BofA Merrill Lynch form part of the group’s significant client list. Kenneth Burdon in Boston further bolsters the group’s retail investment management expertise. Anne Choe and Neesa Patel Sood joined from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in February 2025.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds United States > Investment fund formation and management
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense