Susannah Amini
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)
Experience
Representative Matters
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
More
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
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Inflexion on £2.3 Billion Continuation Fund
- Award Partner Susannah Amini Named a Rising Star of European Finance by Financial News
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Inflexion on £975 Million Inflexion Enterprise Fund VI
- Sponsored Event 8th Annual European Fund Finance Symposium
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Inflexion on £1.75 Billion Inflexion Partnership Capital Fund III