Kapil V. Pandit, Partner, Investment Management & Sovereign Wealth Funds

Kapil Vishnu Pandit

Partner

Areas of Focus

Kapil V. Pandit, Partner, Investment Management & Sovereign Wealth Funds

Kapil Vishnu Pandit

Partner

kpandit@akingump.com

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Biography
  • Lead fund counsel for global asset managers, including family offices, high-net-worth individuals, sovereigns and other institutional investors.
  • Represents investment management clients across a full range of strategies, including private equity, secondaries transactions, continuation funds, real estate and credit funds, among others. 

Kapil is a leading investment management lawyer advising on the complete spectrum of issues funds and fund managers face in building and managing their bespoke investments and transactions. Kapil represents a wide range of investors, including global asset managers, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and high-net-worth (HNW) individuals, in their investment strategies, including private equity funds, secondaries transactions, continuation funds, real estate, credit funds, fund of funds, hybrid funds, evergreen funds and hedge funds, among others.

Kapil advises on investments in private funds and transactions to support his clients’ strategies and business goals. He also represents fund sponsors in the formation, structuring, launch and operation of private equity and hedge funds and other alternative investment matters in various jurisdictions.

Kapil has significant experience advising on bespoke transactions involving fund managers and their products, including credit transactions, secondaries, continuation funds, preferred equity and spinout funds. In his work for institutional investors such as sovereigns, Kapil provides advice on fund investments, co-investments and direct investments, including managing third-party investments.

Kapil has advised on numerous transformational secondaries transactions for institutional investors, including stapled secondaries transactions to launch investment management businesses, and GP-led continuation vehicle transactions.

Before joining the firm, Kapil worked in India with AGM India Advisors Pvt. Ltd., an affiliate of Apollo Management, where he assisted with Apollo Management’s investment in Dish TV India Ltd. He also previously worked in operations and supply chain management for Lockheed Martin Corporation, where he participated in the Operations Leadership Development Program and was involved with projects in logistics, international offsets/industrial cooperation, lean manufacturing, six-sigma process improvement and subcontract management.

Kapil routinely applies his background in business operations and project management to manage complex transactions, including secondaries transactions, spin-out transactions, and joint-venture arrangements for investment management clients. 

Representative Work
  • Advised Mubadala Capital in connection with the launch and final closing of its fourth vintage of its private equity fund.
  • Represented Mubadala Capital in connection with structuring and establishing the consortium for the acquisition of Fortress Investment Group. Mubadala Capital is the wholly owned asset management subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company, a leading global sovereign investor headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Mubadala completed its acquisition of the 90.01% of the Fortress Investment Group equity that was held by SoftBank Group Corp. After the transaction, the consortium led by Mubadala Capital now owns 68% of Fortress equity.
  • Represented a prominent fund manager in a $1 billion preferred equity transaction in connection with fundraising for a private equity fund.
  • Represented Mubadala Capital and its portfolio company TruFood Manufacturing, a leading U.S. contract manufacturer specializing in better-for-you nutrition bars, chocolate and baked granola, in a combination with Bar Bakers LLC, a prominent contract manufacturer of branded nutrition and protein bars, baked bars and cookies and wafer bars.
  • Advised the financial investment arm of a sovereign wealth fund in raising new commitments from third-party investors and in its spinout from the sovereign wealth fund through a transformative $4 billion stapled secondary transaction whereby a portfolio of private equity assets was syndicated through a structured fund solution.
  • Advised Alpine Grove Partners in connection with a GP-led recapitalization of a German light industrial real estate operating company with a €1.7 billion portfolio of industrial and land assets (transaction structured to include a competitive auction process followed by a recapitalization with a seed/lead investment by one of Canada’s largest institutional investment managers).
  • Advised Lubert-Adler Group in connection with a GP-led recapitalization and restructuring of all of its real estate funds, with a total transaction value of approximately $780 million.
  • Advised a U.S.-based private investment firm focused on the North American lower middle market in connection with a GP-led recapitalization and launch of a continuation fund for a full-service insurance brokerage firm, with a total transaction value of approximately $350 million.
  • Advised a seed investor in an investment in AGL Credit Management (a private credit investment firm specializing in innovative actively managed credit solutions based on bank loans that launched to build a CLO franchise), along with commitments to a CLO fund and warehousing fund, with a total transaction value of approximately $650 million. The transaction involved the launch of a new CLO management franchise as a unique partnership between well-known bank loan industry experts, private equity investing pioneers, a large U.S. state pension and a prominent sovereign wealth fund.
  • Advised Mubadala Capital in a $1.2 billion GP-led restructuring and stapled-secondary transaction that included the launch of a new continuation vehicle to hold fund investments and co-investments, along with a stapled LP commitment to a separate blind-pool investment vehicle.
  • Counseled a family office of an ultra-HNW individual in the spinout of its private equity team.
  • Represented a global asset manager in the formation of a $1.5 billion fund of one for an employee retirement system.
  • Acted on behalf of an investment adviser to HNW individuals and family offices with investments into third-party managed private equity, hedge and venture capital funds.
  • Represented an investment adviser in the formation of a fund of funds vehicle for a Canadian pension fund.
  • Advised a prominent investment manager in the structuring and formation of investment fund vehicles for a private equity fund focused on stressed, distressed and special credit opportunities in India.

Education
  • J.D., Howard University School of Law, 2009

  • M.S., George Washington University, 2006

  • B.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2003

Bar Admissions
  • District of Columbia

  • Maryland

  • New York

Recognitions
  • Diversity Journal, Asian Leadership Award, 2024.
  • The Legal 500 US, Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital), 2023.
  • National Law Journal, Rising Star, 2020.
  • Super Lawyers, Washington, D.C., Rising Star, 2016-2018.

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