Adam V. Sussman is a partner in the national law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and co-chair of the firm’s Private Funds & Investment Management group. Adam counsels private fund sponsors on all aspects of their business, including the organization, marketing, fundraising, and ongoing operations, compliance and management of their private equity, credit, debt, venture capital, real estate, cryptocurrency and hedge funds, co-investment vehicles and managed accounts, as well as their firm ownership and upper-tier organization. He also advises institutional investors on their participation in private equity and other alternative asset funds.

Prior to joining Nelson Mullins, Adam worked at several other international law firms including Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Proskauer Rose LLP, and Goodwin Procter LLP. Before practicing law, Adam was an analyst at an early-stage investment fund and business incubator in New York’s Silicon Alley where he evaluated new ventures, conducted due diligence, and coordinated funding with entrepreneurs and investors and served in the War Room of Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign as part of the Media and Rapid Response Team.

Adam earned a B.A., with Distinction, from Yale University in History and Ethics, Politics, and Economics and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. He also has an M.A. concentrating in Political Economy and completed the Executive Program in Management at Columbia Business School.

Adam is a 2024 Fellow of the Economic Club of New York, serves on the Young Leaders Board of the non-profit organization JOIN Israel, Inc., is a member of the Enterprise Club at the American Enterprise Institute, and is a Capstone member of the Adam Smith Society at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.