Profile: Thomas H Bell
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Law Firm: | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP |
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 425 Lexington Avenue 10017-3954 |
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| City: | New York | |
| State: | New York | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 212 455 2533 | |
| Fax: | +1 212 455 2502 | |
| Email: | tbell@stblaw.com |
Private funds
Biography: Private funds
Thomas H Bell is a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he is a member of the corporate department. Bell specialises in investment management matters and oversees the firm's practice in the area of private investments funds, an area in which the firm has a pre-eminent international presence. He advises clients globally on organising and advising a wide range of buy-out funds, real-estate funds, venture-capital funds and other kinds of private-equity funds, as well as hedge funds, offshore funds and other kinds of funds for 'alternative asset' categories.
Representative buyout, real estate, venture capital and other private equity clients include the Carlyle Group, Calera Capital, Evercore Partners, Ferrer Freeman, the JE Robert Companies, JC Flowers & Co, Morgan Stanley, New Mountain Capital, Sterling Investment Partners and Candover, Terra Firma and Moorfield. Representative hedge fund and similar private investment fund clients include JWM Partners and its Relative Value Opportunity Fund (the successors to Long-Term Capital Management and its Long-Term Capital hedge funds), Brummer & Partners, ESL Investments and Zurich Capital Markets.
Bell joined Simpson Thacher in 1983 and became a partner in 1992. He received his BA summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1978, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 1983, where he was editor of The Yale Law Journal. Bell is the past chair of the Subcommittee on Specialized Investment Vehicles of the International Bar Association, and a member of the Subcommittee on Private Investment Entities of the American Bar Association. He is the founder and past co-chair of the International Conference on Private Investment Funds co-sponsored by the IBA and the ABA. Bell was named 'Global Private Funds Lawyer of the Year' for 2006 and 2007 by Who's Who Legal.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Private funds Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
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