Paul Hastings LLP

Diala Minott

Diala Minott is a Structured Credit partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. Mrs. Minott specializes in 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 practice also encompasses debt and credit funds with a particular focus on direct lending, CLO equity and risk retention funds. She covers regulated and unregulated funds, both onshore and offshore, with a particular expertise in Luxembourg funds.

Duncan Woollard

Duncan Woollard is a partner in the Private Funds practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises on a wide range of fund related work including in private equity, private debt, real estate, mezzanine, venture, credit, natural resources, infrastructure, funds of funds, distressed and special situations, and activist funds, as well as advising on the structuring of carried interest, co-investment and other incentive schemes, secondary transactions, fund restructurings and spin-outs, and the establishment of new investment management businesses. His clients include Investindustrial, NorthEdge Capital, Pamplona Capital, LaSalle Investment Management, MML Capital Partners, Xenon Private Equity, Innova Capital, Hutton Collins, Omni Capital, Barings Capital, AMC Group, MVM and Innotech Investments.