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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
425 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Jonathan Karen

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+1-212-455-3274 [email protected]

Work Department

Corporate/Private Funds/Investment Funds

Position

Corporate Partner that has led recent efforts in some of the industry’s most successful and market-defining private equity fund formations and numerous other separate accounts, funds-of-one and similar custom arrangements across multiple asset classes, including buyout, real estate, infrastructure, secondaries and distressed and mezzanine debt. Notable formations include Blackstone’s recent flagship corporate, energy and real estate private equity funds, and 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 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 partners)

Jonathan Karen – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is reputed for its strength in real estate funds and on managing secondaries transactions. The team is well versed in private equity fund raises, co-invest vehicles and on establishing separately managed accounts for high profile sponsors and asset managers, with notable names including Blackstone, The Carlyle Group and Oaktree Capital Management. Practice head Michael Wolitzer advises well known private equity funds sponsors and private investment funds across diverse asset classes and sits in New York. Further strengthening the New York office are preeminent corporate and private funds partner Barrie Covit, Jonathan Karen, who is well versed with infrastructure and real estate funds and secondaries transaction expert Lauren King. Los Angeles based Thomas Wuchenich advises on high-value fund formations and on strategic fund transactions, and is supported by John Kreager and Matthew Kemp, both of whom made partner in January 2024, while in New York Sage Hughes and Jessica O’Connell were made partner in January the previous year.

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