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.

Mrs. Minott 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.

• Winner of "Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year" at the Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2024
• Ranked Band 1 for Investment Funds: Private Equity: Credit Funds by Chambers UK 2024
• Named a "Leading Individual" for Private Funds by The Legal 500 UK 2023-2024
• Named for Private Debt among “Women of Influence in Private Markets” by PEI Group 2023
• Winner of “Legal: Fund Formation” awards at The Drawdown Awards 2023
• Shortlisted for “Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year” at the Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2023
• Winner of “Collaborative Leadership” at Law.com’s International’s Women, Influence & Power in Law UK Awards 2023
• Winner of “Most Innovative Use of Technology” at The Lawyer Awards 2022
• Shortlisted for “Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year” at the Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2022
• Named a “Next Generation Partner” for Private Funds by The Legal 500 UK 2020-2022
• Named “Most Innovative Legal Practitioner” by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe Report 2021
• Winner of "Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year" at Women in Business Law Awards Europe 2021
• Shortlisted for “Best Onshore Law Firm” at the HFM (Hedge Fund Management) European Service Awards 2020
• Winner of “Women in Law Award” at the British Legal Awards 2019
• Winner of “Law Firm of the Year: Europe” by Private Debt Investor in 2018 and shortlisted for 2019
• Winner of “Law Firm of the Year – Lending & Securities” at the Alt Credit Fund Intelligence Europe Awards 2019
• Nominated for “Funds Team of the Year” at The Lawyer Awards 2018
• Nominated for “Transatlantic Finance Team of the Year” at the Transatlantic Legal Awards 2018
• Nominated for “Best Onshore Fund Formation Law Firm” at the Private Equity Service Awards 2018
• Commended in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report 2018
• Named "Top Global CLO Arranger Counsel" for 2019 by Creditflux magazine in their February 2020 issue (the third year in a row)
• Named a “Rising Star” in The Legal 500 UK 2015

• University of Nottingham Trent
• London School of Economics LLB

 Admissions

• Solicitor in England and Wales