Diala Minott is a co-chair of the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office.

She advises on a wide range of fund-related work including private equity, private debt, real estate, mezzanine, venture, credit, infrastructure, funds of funds, distressed and special situations, and activist funds, as well as on the structuring of carried interest, co-investment and other incentive schemes, secondary transactions and fund restructurings. She also specializes in direct lending funds, having set up the first regulated direct lending fund in Luxembourg in 2009 for ICG. She acts for investors for solvency II planning and also lobbies the regulators for improvements in the banking monopoly regimes around Europe on behalf of her clients. She also acts for governments, improving their funds legislations.

Diala also specializes in credit funds structured finance transactions, including acting on numerous CLOs and CDOs — both pre- and post-crisis — as well as acting on bespoke hybrid mid-market CLO-type funds.

Her clients include the following: Pemberton, Cheyne, Apollo, Blackrock, Monroe, Idinvest, ICG, Aviva Investors, Pantheon, Insight Management, PGIM, Ostrum, and BNP, amongst others.

• University of Nottingham Trent
• London School of Economics, LL.B.

 Admissions

• Solicitor in England and Wales