Mr. Sarno practices in the Corporate Department of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, focusing on private investment funds and other facets of “alternative asset management.” He has represented both domestic and international fund sponsors, such as The Carlyle Group, Lehman Brothers, KKR, Babcock & Brown, ING Group, Citigroup, BlackRock, Brown Brothers Harriman, Cherokee Partners and The Cypress Group, in many different asset categories, including traditional private equity, real estate, infrastructure, mezzanine debt and other fixed income, asset manager investment and coinvestment. Mr. Sarno’s practice also focuses on representing sponsors of fund-of-funds and listed funds and the creation of employee securities companies. Mr. Sarno practiced in the firm’s London office for two years. He is a member of the Private Investment Fund Forum, a group comprised of New York City attorney’s practicing extensively in the private funds area and frequently lectures on alternative asset management topics to industry members and advisors. Mr. Sarno is listed as a leading lawyer in Chambers’ Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers (Private Equity), The International Who's Who of Private Fund Lawyers, International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Private Equity Lawyers and other similar publications. Mr. Sarno received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut in 1989, where he was a University Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. with honors from the Duke University School of Law in 1992. Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Mr. Sarno clerked for the Honorable Justice Robert L. Clifford, Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey.
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