Bio

Shannon Sullivan is Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department. Shannon focuses on the organization, structuring and operation of a wide range of private funds, including real estate funds; buyout funds; distressed debt/credit, mezzanine and senior loan funds; energy/infrastructure funds; and hedge funds. She also counsels sponsors on separately managed account arrangements, co-investment vehicles, internal economic arrangements and corporate transactions involving private investment funds. Shannon also serves as host and moderator of The Funds Channel, the Firm’s private funds-focused podcast series. Shannon has represented leading sponsors of private equity funds such as Blackstone, Carlyle, GSO, Macquarie, Morgan Stanley, Oaktree, Pátria and Westbrook Partners. Shannon is very involved with Girls on the Run, a non-profit organization which strives to inspires girls to be happy, healthy and confident using a creative curriculum that centers on running, and is on the board of Kings County Tennis League, a non-profit organization that serves children living in and around Brooklyn public housing, using tennis and off-court educational activities as instruments for youth development. Shannon received her J.D., with honors, from George Washington University Law School in 2005. She received her B.A., with honors, from University of Michigan in 2002. Shannon is admitted to practice in New York and California.