Kamini Persaud is an associate in Morrison Foerster’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Agency Finance Group.

Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Kamini was a corporate associate at another law firm, where she focused on mergers and acquisitions as well as capital markets and securities transactions. She represented private and public companies in buy-side and sell-side M&A and major financial institutions in investment-grade bond and equity offerings. She also worked for a multinational financial services company as a legal secondee in the fixed income division, primarily focused on high‑yield hedging transactions involving derivatives.

Her early legal experience included a judicial internship with the Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian D. Saunders, the then-President of the Caribbean Court of Justice.

Kamini earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an editor for the Yale Law Journal and was actively involved in the Black Law Students Association and South Asian Law Students Association. She also participated in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic, providing legal counsel to startups and small businesses. While at Yale, Kamini served as a 2020 Salzburg Cutler Fellow for the Salzburg Global Seminar and a 2019 Kirby Simon Fellow for the Schell Center for International Human Rights.

She earned a B.A. magna cum laude in history from Princeton University, with a certificate in Spanish language and culture.