Olga Gutman is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett where she is a member of the Corporate Department.  Ms. Gutman specializes in hedge funds, private equity funds and investment management matters.  She regularly represents sponsors of private equity and hedge funds including Breeden Capital Management, Brummer Capital Partners, Citigroup Alternative Investments, GSO Capital Partners, Goshen Investments, The J. E. Robert Companies, Mizuho Alternative Investments, New Mountain Capital, Pendragon Capital, Spring Mountain Capital, Tiger Management and TSG Consumer Partners.  She has also been involved in a number of strategic investments and M&A transactions involving asset management firms.

Ms. Gutman is a frequent lecturer before professional groups on private investment funds.  She has been recognized as a leading lawyer in Investment Funds: Hedge Funds by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2008 – 2011).  She was also named a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 United States 2010 and The International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers 2012.  Ms. Gutman received her J.D. in 1997 from Cornell Law School, where she was an Olin Scholar, and her LL.M. in International and Comparative Law in 2001, also from Cornell.  She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Yeshiva University in 1994, receiving the Wall Street Journal Award for Excellence in Economics.

Publications

•	Investment Advisers and Private Funds Alert: SEC Adopts Rules on Exemptions to Registration and Reporting Requirements Pursuant to Dodd-Frank
•	The SEC’s New Large Trader Reporting Rule
•	Regulations Proposed to Implement the Volcker Rule
•	The Final SEC Rule on Political Contributions by Investment Advisers
•	New Jersey Court Protects Private Equity Funds’ Confidential Agreements With State From Disclosure
•	SEC Approves New Rule 2790 (Restrictions on the Purchase and Sale of IPOs of Equity Securities); Replaces Free-Riding and Withholding Interpretation
•	CFTC Adopts Final Rule on Registration Exemptions
•	CFTC Considers New Rules on Registration Exemption and Offers No-Action Relief
•	Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and Private Investment Funds

Speaking Engagements

•	Olga Gutman Chaired and Ms. Gutman and Jonathan Karen Spoke at the City Bar Center’s “What Attorneys Need to Know About Private Equity and Hedge Funds” Program November 9, 2011
•	Olga Gutman and Barrie Covit Spoke at the Foundation for Accounting Education’s Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments Conference July 29, 2010
•	Olga Gutman Moderates Panel at ACI’s Sixth Annual National Advance Forum on Hedge Funds & Investment Advisors June 24, 2010

Admissions

•	New York 1998

Education

•	Cornell Law School, 1997 J.D. Olin Scholar
•	Cornell Law School, 2001 LL.M., International Law
•	Yeshiva University, 1994 B.A. magna cum laude; Dean's List; Wall Street Journal Award for Excellence in Economics