Susannah Amini

Partner Debt Finance
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

London +44 20 7469 2164

Susannah Amini

Practices

Overview

Susannah is a leader in the field.” - The Legal 500 UK, 2025

Susannah Amini is a debt finance partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has extensive experience in borrower-side fund finance, acting for many different funds of different asset classes on their capital call / subscription facilities, NAV lines, GP/management company facilities, leverage for secondary transactions and other more bespoke forms of fund finance.

External Recognition

  • Chambers UK: Ranked for Fund Finance and described by clients as “a leader in the field” (2025)
  • The Legal 500 UK: Listed as a “Leading Individual” for Fund Finance (2025)
  • Financial News: Listed as “Rising Stars of European Finance” (2025)
  • Legal Business: Listed as “Ones to Watch” (2023)
  • The Drawdown: Listed as one of the Most Influential Fund Finance Experts of 2022 where she is noted for founding “one of the most innovative and fastest growing practice areas in the Firm”
  • Law.com: Listed as “Rising Stars: The UK's Best Up and Coming Female Lawyers” (2022)
  • Legal Week: Listed as “40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in Private Equity” (2019)

Subscription Facilities

  • Advising investment funds on their capital call facilities including Apax, BC Partners, Ergon Capital, GLP, HgCapital, IK Investment Partners, Inflexion, Investindustrial, Lion Capital, L Catterton Asia, KLAR, Nordic Capital, Partners Group, Pollen Street Capital, Starwood Capital, Summit Partners, Trilantic Capital and Vitruvian Partners

NAV Facilities

  • Advising a European private equity fund on a €600 million NAV facility
  • Advising a European private equity fund on a €310 million NAV facility
  • Advising a European private equity fund on a US$1.09 billion NAV facility
  • Advising a European private equity fund on a €1.2 billion NAV facility
  • Advising a European private equity fund on a €500 million NAV facility

GP Facilities

  • Advising a European private equity fund on an up to €500 million GP level facility
  • Advising a European private equity fund on a €180 million GP level facility
  • Advising a European private equity fund on a €75 million GP level facility

Continuation Fund Financings

  • Advising a European private equity fund on a €270 million continuation fund financing
  • Advising a US private equity fund on a €200 million continuation fund financing

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Thought Leadership

Publications

“A Comparison Between Two Liquidity Solution Tools: Preferred Equity and NAV Facilities,” Private Equity Law Report, October 2020

Seminars

Moderator, “NAV 2.0: Advanced NAV Financing Strategies”, Fund Finance Association 8th Annual European Fund Finance Symposium, May 2024

Moderator, “Secondaries – Far From Second Fiddle”, Virtual Fund Finance Symposium, November 16 2020

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2010, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales

Education

  • University of NottinghamB.A., Politics2006