Jonathan Adler

Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Jonathan Adler is a corporate partner based in the New York office and a member of the firm’s investment management group. His practice focuses on advising sponsors of private investment funds, including buyout, growth capital, energy, infrastructure and credit funds. In addition to his work with US and European funds, Adler has also advised clients in establishing private equity funds, offices and joint ventures in various emerging markets, including Africa, India and South America.

Adler is ranked as a leading lawyer for private equity funds by Chambers Global (2021) and Chambers USA (2021), where clients note ‘he cuts to the heart of a problem quickly and he’s quick thinker'. Clients have also noted that he has a ‘fine combination of really good technical skills and a really good sense of the commercial and practical realities’ and that he is ‘an extraordinary lawyer; he’s very thoughtful and brings a commercial, get-things-resolved attitude’. Adler is also recognised for private equity funds in The Legal 500 US (2021) and was named in Private Funds Management’s ‘30 Under 40’, which recognises the top private equity funds lawyers under the age of 40. He was also named a Rising Star by IFLR1000 (2020).