Nadia Bonnet is Senior Luxembourg Counsel at Simpson Thacher, based in the Firm’s New York office. She has more than 15 years of experience in guiding U.S. and international sponsors on the formation of funds and other investment vehicles in Luxembourg, as well as in related distribution and other activities. Her practice focuses on the development and regulation of alternative investment funds, vehicles and managers (AIFMs) across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, real estate, venture capital, private debt and infrastructure, for both regulated and non-regulated investment structures. In the beginning of her career, she also counseled clients in related joint ventures, corporate restructurings and mergers and acquisitions.
Nadia’s clients include Blackstone, DigitalBridge, KSL Capital Partners, New Mountain Capital, Stonepeak and TCV, among others. She has represented many sponsors of private investment funds over her career, such as: LVMH and Groupe Arnault in the structuring and lifecycle of their Real Estate Funds and in their strategic partnership with Catterton; GCM Grosvenor; and Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity. She also acted as a consultant to the World Bank, analyzing the offshore (Luxembourg) regulatory framework for supporting the establishment of hybrid (public-private), venture capital and private equity funds in developing countries, including in the Western Balkans.
Nadia is a recognized authority in Luxembourg private fund formation and investment matters, having played a prominent role in some of the most significant Luxembourg fund matters in recent years. She has written articles for the European American Chamber of Commerce, International Financial Law Review, ESG Investing, the Luxembourg Revue Pratique de Droit des Affaires, Investment Lawyer, Private Equity Law Report, and many others.
Nadia regularly serves on panels at several industry conferences. She has spoken at events hosted by the Association Luxembourgeoise des Fonds d’Investissement (“ALFI”), HFMWeek, Informa Connect (the “UCITS & AIFMD for US Managers” conference), the Hedge Fund Association, the “big four” accounting firms and other industry players. Nadia is also hosting a CFO Roundtable on a quarterly basis with Aztec Group.
Fluent in French and English, Nadia is a member of the Luxembourg bar. She received a Bachelor’s in Business Law, with distinction, and a Master’s in European Business Law, with distinction, from the Université de Franche-Comté, and studied in Luxembourg and in a U.S. legal exchange program at Kansas University (undergraduate). She also received a Certificate of Business Finance Formation from the HEC Liège, Belgium, a Certificate of Islamic Capital Markets Formation from the Luxembourg School of Finance and a Certificate in the Fundamentals of Alternative Investments from the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association.
Nadia is a member of the International Bar Association as well as a member of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry’s Debt Funds Committee and PE & VC Publications group. She also serves on the board of the Luxembourg American Chamber of Commerce.