Team
Team members are the greatest strength of Siguler Guff
All Professionals

Michael Apfel

Fernando Arakaki

Pedro Luis Aranha

Megan Auwarter

Christopher Barbier

Jenna Beekman

Bradley Bennett

Matthew Bernstein

Marvin Bigalbal

Sara Bowdoin

Elena Brown

Tammy Budd

Ken Burns

Pedro Cafaro

Tami Cai

Mário Carolo

Shelly Chen

Cesar Collier

Meghan Conaty

James Conticello

Taylor Coundouris

Clara Custodio

Meghan Danaher

Bibhusha Dangol

Ana Elisa de Cunto

C.J. Denmark

Mark Denomme

Adam Domanico

Brenna Embry

Justin Eskind

Matthew Foley

AJ Guff

Luka Galvão

Alexis Gentry

Sarah Gheewala

John Ging

Klaudia Gjeta

Theresa Glorioso

Mitchell Goldfarb

Lucas Grant

Jordan Greenberg

Sean Greene

Drew Guff

Timothy Hagerty

Donald Harris Jr

Bailey Hawthorne

James Hilton

Laura House

Susan Huang

Alexander Huo

Jun Isoda

Aviral Jain

Lea Johnson

Sandip Kakar

Kevin Kester

Shaun Khubchandani

Fiona Kolterman

Scott Krattenmaker

Jarrad Krulick

Ilomai Kurrik

Megan Laakso

Michelle Layne

Edward Lederle

Gee Lee

Sandra Lee

Sharon Liang

Robert Ligouri

Brian Ludemann

Sean R. Macdonald

Faith Maiello

Michael Malinics

Michael Martynowicz

Michelle Matthews

Jose Mayoral

Tyler McEwan

Edward McQuiston

Trey Meyer

Rhoda Minderhoud

Langdon Mitchell

Katherine Moraski

Alexa Morris

Jason Mundt

Meghan Murphy

Melissa Natale

Jaqueline Olson

Timothy Ong

Marie Ong

Kentaro Otani

Bailey Palumbo

Prabhas Panigrahi

Elizabeth Panzera

Marcelo Phillips

Joshua Posner

Luisa Reis

Eric Rustad

Daniella Sagalovsky

John Scheurer

Lauren Schmidt

Sumil Sethi

Yiting Shan

Heemin Shin

Nadeem Siddiqui

George W. Siguler

Roman Simonov

Nicole Stauffer

Alicia Stevens

Marcos Tage

Jason Tan

Helen Tang

Stephanie Tazza

Jodee Telfer

Amish Thakkar

Daniel Vieira

Narihiko Watanabe

Matthew West

Eugene Williams

Jonathan Wilson

Matthew Yannocone

Clifford Yonce

Karen Yu

Valentyn Zadorin

Ally Zhang

Vivian Zhu

James Zumot

Josh Zweig

Will Siguler

Sandip Kakar
Managing Director, Managing Counsel - Fundraising & Corporate

Sandip Kakar is a Managing Director and Managing Counsel at Siguler Guff. Mr. Kakar is responsible for the management of the legal aspects of Siguler Guff's capital raising and corporate matters. In addition, he has served as the Firm’s lead attorney on a broad range of investment transactions, including fund investments, direct investments, co-investments and secondary transactions. Mr Kakar serves as a member of Siguler Guff’s Compliance Committee and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Committee.
Mr. Kakar has over 20 years of experience as a corporate transactional and investment funds lawyer, and has negotiated and executed a broad range of fund formation, private equity, M&A, capital markets and corporate finance transactions. Prior to joining Siguler Guff in 2012, Mr. Kakar was a Senior Associate in the Private Funds Group at Clifford Chance, a leading global law firm. At Clifford Chance, he represented fund sponsors and institutional investors in structuring and raising capital for multi-jurisdictional private equity funds, as well as in investment transactions and regulatory compliance and governance matters. Previously, Mr. Kakar was a corporate transactional and investment management lawyer at K&L Gates, an international law firm. At K&L Gates, he represented public and private companies, issuers, investors, investment managers and broker-dealers. Mr. Kakar began his career as a Regulatory Compliance Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.