Susannah Amini

Partner Debt Finance
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

London +44 20 7469 2164

Susannah Amini

Overview

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.

Susannah has been recognised by Law.com on its 2022 list of “Rising Stars: The UK's Best Up and Coming Female Lawyers” and by Legal Week who named her to its 2019 list of “40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in Private Equity”. She is ranked by Chambers UK (2022) for Fund Finance and described by clients as “an excellent lawyer” who is “very knowledgeable, practical and proposes solutions”. She is also recognised as a “Leading Individual” for Fund Finance by The Legal 500 UK (2022).

Subscription Facilities

  • Advising J.P. Morgan Asset Management to close upsizing and extension of $4 billion credit facilities and the redomiciliation of a fund entity
  • Advising Inflexion on its ESG-backed subscription facility in respect of its £2.5 billion Inflexion Buyout Fund VI 
  • Advising investment funds on their capital call facilities including Apax, Basalt Infrastructure Partners, BC Partners, CVC Credit, Ergon Capital, GLP, HgCapital, IK Investment Partners, Inflexion, Investindustrial, Lion Capital, L Catterton Asia, Livingbridge, Nordic Capital, Starwood Capital, Summit Partners, Trilantic Capital and Vitruvian Partners

NAV Facilities

  • A European private equity fund on a €300 million NAV facility
  • A European private equity fund on a €150 million NAV loan and preferred equity rescue financing
  • A European private equity fund on a €520 million NAV facility
  • A Global private equity fund on a US$1 billion NAV facility
  • An Asian private equity fund on a €50 million concentrated NAV facility

GP Commit/Topco Financings

  • Nextech on the closing of its seventh oncology fund and debut crossover fund
  • A European private equity fund on a €50 million revolving facility
  • A European private equity fund on a €35 million term facility
  • A European healthcare fund on a €35 million term facility
  • An Australian commodities fund on a $18 million term facility
  • A European private equity fund in connection with a €180 million topco level NAV financing

GP-led Secondary Transactions

  • Nordic Capital on the financing aspects of its €2.5 billion continuation fund for its Fund VII
  • Landmark Partners on the financing aspects of its investment in a single asset continuation vehicle managed by PAI Partners with respect to Perstorp

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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, “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