As Counsel in the Firm’s Registered Funds Practice, Matt Micklavzina focuses his practice on a broad range of investment management issues related to registered funds, registered investment advisers and fund boards. He has extensive experience advising asset management firms on the formation and operation of investment funds across various types of registered fund structures, including interval funds, tender offer funds, listed closed-end funds, business development companies, open-end funds and exchange-traded funds.
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Work Highlights
- JPMorgan in connection with the formation and continuous public offering of JPMorgan Private Markets Fund, registered fund pursuing secondaries, continuation solutions and co-investments alongside private equity sponsors
- KKR Infrastructure Conglomerate LLC, a public company, in connection with its Form 10 registration statement
- Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust, a private REIT that acquires, owns, finances and leases a diversified portfolio of single-tenant commercial real estate properties subject to long-term net leases
- Numerous leading global investment firms on registration statement and contract approval disclosure review, compliance, the drafting of complex strategy and risk disclosures and the launch of novel investment products, among other matters
Education
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Boston University School of Law, 2013 J.D.
cum laude
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University of Miami, 2010 B.A.
summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
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District of Columbia 2023
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New York 2014
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Massachusetts 2013
Matt Micklavzina is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds Practice. Based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Matt focuses his practice on a broad range of investment management matters related to registered funds, registered investment advisers and fund boards. He has extensive experience advising asset management firms on the formation and operation of investment funds across various types of registered fund structures, including interval funds, tender offer funds, listed closed-end funds, business development companies, open-end funds and exchange-traded funds.
Matt’s representative experience includes advising:
- JPMorgan in connection with the formation and continuous public offering of JPMorgan Private Markets Fund, a registered fund pursuing secondaries, continuation solutions and co-investments alongside private equity sponsors
- KKR Infrastructure Conglomerate LLC, a public company, in connection with its Form 10 registration statement
- Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust, a private REIT that acquires, owns, finances and leases a diversified portfolio of single-tenant commercial real estate properties subject to long-term net leases
- Numerous leading global investment firms on registration statement and contract approval disclosure review, compliance, the drafting of complex strategy and risk disclosures and the launch of novel investment products, among other matters
Matt received his J.D., cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, and his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Miami, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.