
Kapil Vishnu Pandit
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Investment Management
- Sovereign & Government Investors
- Fund Formation
- Institutional Investors
- Private Funds Liquidity Solutions
- Credit Funds
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Hedge Funds
- Seeding Transactions
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Credit
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Customs & Import Controls
- Technology
- Pro Bono
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
- 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.
- 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.
EducationJ.D., Howard University School of Law, 2009
M.S., George Washington University, 2006
B.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
J.D., Howard University School of Law, 2009
M.S., George Washington University, 2006
B.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
Maryland
New York
District of Columbia
Maryland
New York
- 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.