Kapil Vishnu Pandit
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Investment Management
- Sovereign and 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
- Concentrates his practice on private investment funds and complex corporate transactions for institutional investors and private equity and hedge fund sponsors.
Kapil regularly counsels investors, including sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals, in connection with their investments in private investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, and managed accounts. He also represents fund sponsors in connection with the formation and operation of private equity funds, credit funds, hybrid funds, real estate funds, secondaries funds, continuation funds, and other alternative investment matters in various jurisdictions.
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.
- 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 stapled secondary whereby a portfolio of private equity assets was syndicated through a structured fund solution.
- Counseled a family office of an ultra-high-net-worth 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 advisor to high-net-worth individuals and family offices with investments into third-party managed private equity, hedge and venture capital funds.
- Represented an investment advisor in the formation of a fund of funds vehicle for a Canadian pension fund.
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.
