Sivanti Devakumar

Partner Tax
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

London +44 20 7469 2026

Sivanti Devakumar

Practices

Overview

Sivanti Devakumar is a tax partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has experience advising corporates, asset managers, institutional investors and management teams on a wide range of complex tax and structuring matters.

Siv has a broad practice encompassing advice on the tax aspects of transactional matters (such as public and private M&A, reorganisations and corporate finance), as well as on any tax issues affecting asset fund managers across their life cycle (including management incentive arrangements and alternative equity financing solutions).

Francisco Partners-backed Kobalt on the sale to Primary Wave

Advent and Cobham Ultra on the sale of Ultra Cyber to Airbus

Coller Capital on the combination with EQT

Advent on the acquisition of a majority stake in Reckitt’s Essential Home

IK Partners on the closing of the IK Small Cap IV Fund at €2 billion

IK Partners on the close of its Fund X at €3.3 billion hard cap

Preservation Capital Partners on its minority investment in Berry Palmer & Lyle (BPL)

Apollo on the acquisition of a stake in bp Pipelines TAP

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, on its acquisition of a 50% controlling stake in Opella from Sanofi, for an enterprise value of €16 billion

Consortium of CVC Private Equity Funds, Nordic Capital and ADIA on the £5.4 billion recommended cash acquisition of Hargreaves Lansdown

Travers Smith LLP

  • Associate, 2018–2024

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

  • Trainee & Associate, 2013–2018

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2015, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales

Languages

  • English
  • French

Education

  • BPP Law SchoolLegal Practice Course2013
  • Paris-Panthéon-Assas UniversityMaster 1, French Law2012
  • University of CambridgeM.A. (Cantab), Law (Double Maitrise)2012