Divya Suwasini advises private fund sponsors and asset managers on complex fund transactions across multiple investment strategies.

Divya draws on extensive experience in private funds to guide clients on high-stakes transactions, and she regularly counsels on matters involving:

  • Fund formations
  • Buy-side and sell-side secondaries transactions
  • Co-investment arrangements
  • Minority and strategic investments
  • Seeding investments
  • Succession planning
  • Incentive arrangements
  • Liquidity solutions for legacy portfolios

Divya also regularly advises asset managers and portfolio companies on complex leveraged buyouts, corporate governance, employment matters, and regulatory compliance. She leverages in-house experience gained during a secondment for a leading infrastructure asset manager to bring a commercially informed perspective to clients’ most critical transactions.

Divya’s experience prior to joining Latham includes advising:

  • A Swiss-based global PE firm on a stapled secondary tender offer transaction with a leading US-based energy and infrastructure asset manager
  • Committed Advisors on its role as a lead investor for a multi-asset, GP-led continuation fund transaction
  • A US merchant bank’s investment platform on its single-asset fund formation in connection with a preferred equity investment in the underlying asset
  • A global asset manager and family office on its minority investment in a US investment manager widely noted as a pioneer in responsible investing
  • Macquarie Asset Management on:
    • Forming Macquarie Infrastructure Partners VI, a US$6.8 billion infrastructure fund
    • Its preferred equity investment in Pavlov Media, one of the largest independent providers of fiber-based internet connectivity to off-campus student housing in the US
  • A US middle-market manager on forming an oversubscribed digital infrastructure fund with about US$7.8 billion in capital commitments
  • An alternative credit investment manager on restructuring its private funds focused on direct lending strategy
  • Thomas H. Lee Partners on the US$3 billion acquisition of Automation Business from Brooks Automation
  • A private credit investment manager on forming its flagship fund and evergreen fund focused on asset-baked lending strategy, with about US$3.4 billion in capital commitments
  • Post Road Group on selling a minority stake to Capital Constellation
  • I Squared Capital on forming ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III, with total capital commitments of US$15 billion
  • Clearlake Capital Group on forming Clearlake Capital Partners VII (Fund VII), a US$14+ billion buyout fund
  • Blackstone on forming Blackstone Capital Opportunities Fund IV, a US$7 billion fund
  • The Carlyle Group on forming its US$645 million Carlyle Renewable and Sustainable Energy Fund, a global renewable energy fund
  • Apax Partners on acquiring a 20.4% stake in Shriram City Union Finance from TPG
  • Mueller Industries and Atlas Holdings on acquiring Tecumseh Products
  • TPG on portfolio company Sutures’ cross-border acquisition of CliniSupplies
  • A Blackstone portfolio company on its joint venture arrangement with a petroleum company in Mexico

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • Bachelor of Laws, NALSAR University of Law
  • LLM, New York University School of Law