Drew Harmon

Drew Harmon is a Partner in the Corporate department and Head of GP Advisory at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. His practice focuses primarily on advising asset managers on some of their most complex transactions, including GP stakes and other mergers & acquisitions, preferred equity financings, joint ventures, secondaries transactions (including GP-led transactions) and founder transitions.

Drew has particular expertise in advising asset managers on their top-side structuring and economic arrangements, including in connection with team lift-outs, joint venture arrangements and the formation of new business lines. He is also recognized as a leading practitioner of customized solutions for insurance companies investing in alternative asset classes.

Drew’s clients include many of the world’s leading asset managers including Blackstone, Carlyle, Coller Capital, Eldridge, Hamilton Lane, Sixth Street and TPG, among others.

Drew’s experience has included representation of:

• Carlyle AlpInvest in multiple preferred equity financings, NAV lending facilities and secondaries transactions
• Hunter Point Capital, Headlands Capital and Neuberger Berman and others in connection with multiple preferred equity financings
• Hamilton Lane in connection with its formation of an innovative, long-term strategic partnership with The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
• Sixth Street in their strategic partnership with Northwestern Mutual
• Stonecroft Management in its minority investment in Thrive Capital
• Portfolio Advisors in its merger with FS Investments
• Eldridge in its establishment of Eldridge Capital Management
• AlpInvest in its $2.3 billion joint venture with Northwestern Mutual
• Corsair in its $4.8 billion infrastructure joint venture with Investcorp
• Blackrock, Coller Capital, GCM Grosvenor, Golub, Neuberger Berman, Strategic Partners, TPG and others in multiple GP-led secondary transactions
• Blackstone, Carlyle, Eldridge, Hamilton Lane, Hunter Point, Starwood Capital and others in connection with strategic insurance partnerships
• Blackstone in its investment in AIG’s Life & Retirement Business as well as its $14.6 billion recapitalization of BioMed Realty
• Blackstone in various corporate matters, including the establishment of its Asset-Based Finance Group and Credit and Insurance Group
• Onex in the establishment of its Onex Credit business
• Succession planning arrangements for founders and senior partners of various alternative investment firms

Drew received a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also received a B.A. from the University of Cambridge.