Diala MinottDialaMinott
Partner, Investment Funds & Private Capital
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.
Advising government of Gibraltar on their funds legislation.
Advised on the establishment of ICG’s Senior Debt Partners Fund.
- Band 1 – Investment Funds: Private Equity: Credit Funds
Chambers UK
- Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year, Women in Business Law Awards EMEA (2024)
"How can GPs make co-investment work for them?", Private Debt Investor,
April 2026
"Co-Investments 101: What Every Manager Should Know", Credit Funds Spotlight, Issue 1, Author
February 2018
"GDPR: What Is All The Fuss About?", Credit Funds Spotlight, Issue 1, Co-Author
February 2018
"MiFID II: The Long Wait Is Over", Credit Funds Spotlight, Issue 1, Co-Author
February 2018