Kapil Vishnu Pandit is a leading investment management lawyer advising on the complete spectrum of issues funds and fund managers face in building and managing their bespoke investments and transactions. Pandit represents a wide range of investors, including global asset managers, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and high-net-worth (HNW) individuals, in their investment strategies.
Among Pandit’s significant clients and representations, he has advised on various matters for Mubadala Capital (including prior to joining Skadden) in connection with: establishing strategic advisory arrangements with other institutional investors and asset managers; the formation and structuring of various pooled investment vehicles and co-investment structures for Mubadala Capital; structuring and establishing the consortium of funds and accounts advised by Mubadala Capital for the acquisition of CI Financial; the launch and final closing of Mubadala Capital’s fourth vintage of its private equity fund; structuring and establishing the consortium led by Mubadala Capital for the acquisition of Fortress Investment Group; and a $1.2 billion GP-led restructuring and stapled-secondary transaction that included the launch of a new continuation vehicle to hold fund investments and co-investments, along with a stapled LP commitment to a separate blind-pool investment vehicle.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers | 2027 | Investment Management |
Pandit’s practice sits at the intersection of fund formation, strategic capital solutions and institutional investor advisory work, and focuses on sponsor-side private fund formation, fund structuring and ongoing operations, as well as bespoke fund manager transactions, including liquidity solutions and secondaries transactions, preferred equity structures, spin-out transactions, joint ventures and institutional and sovereign investor representations. Pandit advises on investments in private funds and transactions to support his clients’ strategies and business goals. He also represents fund sponsors in the formation, structuring, launch and operation of private funds (private equity funds, real estate funds, credit funds, funds of funds, hybrid funds, evergreen funds and hedge funds) and other alternative investment matters in various jurisdictions. In his work for institutional investors such as sovereigns, Pandit provides advice on fund investments, co-investments and direct investments, including managing third-party investments.
Pandit has advised on numerous transformational secondaries transactions for institutional investors, including stapled secondaries transactions to launch investment management businesses, and GP-led continuation vehicle transactions.
Before joining Skadden, Pandit worked at another major global law firm based in Washington, D.C. He also previously 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., and 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.
Pandit routinely applies his background in business operations and project management to manage complex transactions, including secondaries transactions, spin-out transactions and joint-venture arrangements for investment management clients.