Biography
Kevin Cassidy is a partner in Seward & Kissel’s Investment Management Group, based in New York.
Kevin represents both closed-ended and open-ended alternative investment funds, with a particular focus on private credit and hedge funds.
Kevin advises on the structuring, fundraising, and operation of private investment funds, drawing on his experience representing clients in SEC examinations and asset management M&A transactions, including seeding and stake deals. Kevin has extensive experience negotiating across from and on behalf of institutional limited partners in private fund investments, including commingled fund investments, “funds-of-one” and SMAs.
Kevin has spent most of his career in Seward & Kissel’s market-leading and historic private funds practice—credited with creating the first hedge fund and the carried interest structure—having first joined the firm at age 24. He returned to Seward & Kissel after working in the Washington, DC office of a global law firm representing private equity sponsors in regulatory matters.
Kevin was selected to The 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation Guide.
Capabilities
Areas of Focus
Credentials
Education
Albany Law School
- J.D., 2013
- magna cum laude
The George Washington University
- B.A., 2009
- magna cum laude
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
Representative Work
- Kennedy Lewis Investment Management on the closing of Kennedy Lewis Capital Partners Master Fund III LP, at $4.1 billion
Recognitions
- IFLR1000: Rising star, Investment funds (USA)
- IFLR1000: Investment Funds (USA)
- Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation
Publications
- “Evergreen and semi-liquid private credit funds for institutional investors,” GLI Private Credit (2026)
- “CLO equity funds: structure, strategy and liquidity solutions,” CLO GLI Fund Finance (2026)
- “Structuring and Finance Considerations of Evergreen Private Credit Funds,” Private Equity Law Report (2024)
Areas of Focus
Credentials
Education
Albany Law School
- J.D., 2013
- magna cum laude
The George Washington University
- B.A., 2009
- magna cum laude
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New York
Representative Work
- Kennedy Lewis Investment Management on the closing of Kennedy Lewis Capital Partners Master Fund III LP, at $4.1 billion
Recognitions
- IFLR1000: Rising star, Investment funds (USA)
- IFLR1000: Investment Funds (USA)
- Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation
Publications
- “Evergreen and semi-liquid private credit funds for institutional investors,” GLI Private Credit (2026)
- “CLO equity funds: structure, strategy and liquidity solutions,” CLO GLI Fund Finance (2026)
- “Structuring and Finance Considerations of Evergreen Private Credit Funds,” Private Equity Law Report (2024)
