Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s London office has picked up a role working alongside Clifford Chance (CC) on private equity house Apax’s latest multibillion-euro fundraising.

The US firm’s London funds chief Jason Glover has been appointed to work alongside a team of CC partners in London and New York led by Nigel Hatfield and a team from Simpson Thacher in New York on the fundraising for Apax VIII, which is hoped to raise around €9bn (£7.9bn).