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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
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Mr Jonathan Karen
Work Department
Corporate/Private Funds/Investment Funds
Position
Corporate Partner that has led recent efforts in industry’s most successful and market-defining private equity fund formations. Notable formations include Blackstone’s most recent flagship opportunistic global real estate, corporate private equity and core private equity funds, Silver Lake, Stonepeak Infrastructure, Rockpoint Real Estate, and Centerbridge Partners in each of their flagship and ancillary funds. Jonathan also counsels investment firms on a mix of matters involving private investment funds, including stake sales, internal economic arrangements for private fund sponsors, regulatory compliance, M&A transactions and strategic investments involving private fund sponsors, joint ventures and spin-outs.
Career
Joined Firm, 2001; Partner, 2011.
Education
B.A., cum laude, Duke University (1998); J.D., New York University School of Law (2001).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
(Leading lawyers)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is a regular fixture in some of the largest fund raisings in the market in recent years and has standout expertise in funds that have over $3bn in commitments. GP-led secondaries transactions, which were increasingly popular in 2022, are a further forte for the firm, with practice head Michael Wolitzer
, managing partner of the Los Angeles office Thomas Wuchenich, and up-and-coming partner Lauren King all names to note in the space. Barrie Covit is a corporate partner that focuses on private funds, and Jonathan Karen is a further key player in the private equity funds space. Blackstone and other leading sponsors count on Peter Gilman for counsel.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Private equity funds (including venture capital) 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 > CFIUS
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- 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
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Tax > International tax
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)