Dalal, Kamal

Kamal Dalal

Counsel

kamal.dalal@lw.com
    Dalal, Kamal

    Kamal Dalal

    Counsel

    kamal.dalal@lw.com

    Profile

    Kamal Dalal is a counsel in the Finance Department of the London office of Latham and a member of the Structured Finance Practice.

    Kamal represents banks, asset managers, pension funds, and insurers, as well as originators and sponsors, on a range of structured finance transactions with a focus on digital infrastructure and emerging and esoteric assets. She advises on private and public securitizations, as well as other structured finance products, including repacks, capital relief trades, credit solutions, and private credit partnerships.

    Kamal works across a range of asset classes and has advised on many innovative and “first-of-their-kind” structures, including securitizations and structured financings of data center leases, GPUs, entertainment and music royalties, trade receivables, SME loans, consumer loans, sovereign loans, equity release mortgages, and other non-traditional assets.

    Kamal also advises clients on regulatory matters and regularly contributes to industry publications and conferences.

    Experience

    Kamal’s representative experience includes advising:

    • EdgeConneX on its inaugural European data center securitization, sponsored by EQT, the first to be structured as a master trust in Europe and referencing Dutch data centers
    • Lenders and underwriters of Yondr’s inaugural £532 million data center securitization on the public capital markets
    • Lenders and underwriters on the initial £600 million data center securitization (and subsequent £254 million tap issuance) for Vantage Data Centers, the first ever public securitization of data centers in EMEA (Securitisation Deal of the Year, GC’s European Securitisation Awards 2025)
    • Key investors and Goldman Sachs in relation to Nscale’s US$1.4 billion delayed draw term loan backed by GPUs
    • Lenders on a multi-jurisdictional portfolio of data center assets at various stages of development in EMEA
    • Potential bidders on the acquisition of a data center operator
    • Initial purchasers and arrangers of various US data center securitizations on matters of English law
    • Cogent Communications on its inaugural securitization of IPv4 address receivables on matters of English law
    • Lenders for a warehouse-to-ABS takeout financing for a portfolio of music receivables
    • Investors in synthetic SRT securitizations and capital relief trades across several geographies
    • Barclays Partner Finance as original lender, servicer, and seller in relation to the securitization of a portfolio of point-of-sale consumer credit loans involving significant risk transfer
    • UK SME lending platforms in connection with their accreditation under the UK’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and Recovery Loan Scheme and the implementation of associated funding programs
    • A US asset manager on the securitization of a portfolio of Spanish SME loans backed by the Pan-European Guarantee Fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • England and Wales (Solicitor)

    Education

    • LPC, The University of Law, 2013
    • MPhil in International Relations, University of Cambridge, 2012
    • GDL, The University of Law, 2011
    • BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford University, 2010

    Languages Spoken

    • English

    Practices

    Recognition

    News & Insights

    Read More