FFA Event

2025 Global Leadership Summit - By Invite Only

Name: 2025 Global Leadership Summit - By Invite Only
Start: 2025-10-15T15:00:00Z
End: 2025-10-17T14:00:00Z
Location: Montage Palmetto Bluff

October 15 - 17, 2025

Montage Palmetto Bluff

2025 Global Leadership Summit

We’re thrilled to announce that the 2025 Global Leadership Summit will take place October 15–17, 2025, at the stunning Montage Palmetto Bluff.

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of South Carolina’s Lowcountry, this exclusive, invitation-only gathering will bring together senior professionals and industry leaders for three days of connection, insight, and dynamic discussion on the future of the fund finance market.

Following the success of last year’s event, we’re excited to bring back many of the signature experiences that made the 2024 Summit such a standout — and we’re actively working to build a similar program for 2025 that reflects the evolving needs of our community.

Cost is $5,000

Curious about the 2024 Summit? Click here to see more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

With over 230 years of legal experience, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP serves a diverse client base, including many of the world’s leading financial institutions, funds and corporations, as well as individual private clients. With offices in New York, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., London and Dublin, Cadwalader offers legal expertise in antitrust, banking, corporate finance, corporate governance, energy, environmental, executive compensation, finance, financial restructuring, health care, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, private wealth, real estate, regulation, securitization, structured finance, tax and white collar defense. Cadwalader has more than two decades of experience in fund finance, providing practical, yet cutting-edge advice to a wide variety of financial institutions active in the space. The Fund Finance team is a recognized leader in subscription finance, NAV transactions, and in pioneering innovative solutions that leverage the firm’s market-leading securitization and regulatory capital advisory practices.

Debevoise & Plimpton

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices and a global perspective. Approximately 800 lawyers work in nine offices across three continents, within integrated global practices, serving clients around the world.

The firm has extensive experience in all aspects of fund-level financing transactions for different types of investment funds and their managers. It has been regularly representing sponsors for more than a decade in a broad range of transactions, including subscription credit facilities, leveraged portfolio acquisition and other asset-based financings, hybrid facilities, management company liquidity facilities and co-investment facilities.

Debevoise’s fund finance practice is global in nature, with strong teams in the U.S., Europe and Asia advising an international client base.

Fitch Ratings

As one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, Fitch Ratings plays a critical role in global capital markets by providing supplementary credit analysis, ratings, research, and commentary to financial market participants.

For over 100 years, Fitch Ratings has been creating value for global markets through its rigorous analysis and deep expertise, which have resulted in a variety of market leading tools, methodologies, indices, research, and analytical products. Fitch Ratings is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries, which also includes Fitch Solutions.

With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

For additional information, please visit fitchratings.com.

Haynes and Boone

Haynes Boone is a leading U.S. corporate law firm whose attorneys were instrumental in developing the structure and documentation for subscription financing in the early 1990s. With over 30 years of industry experience in the global subscription financing market, our Fund Finance Practice has worked through numerous business cycles, taking a multi‐disciplinary approach to working with clients and their customers on each transaction, preserving the lender‐borrower relationship by conducting all negotiations with an understanding of the fund’s business issues, while preserving each fund’s relationship with its investors. Our work in the global subscription financing market has been recognized by The Drawdown as Fund Finance Advisory Firm of Year and by Private Equity International’s Global Annual Awards as one of the top law firms in the “Transactions” category for both Asia and North America. Our global team’s focus is a collaborative team approach with an emphasis on partner‐led deals. Our fund finance team of over 70 attorneys and specialists advises on all types of fund finance including subscription financing, NAV/Hybrid, unencumbered asset pool financing, employee co-invest, GP support and management fee financings. Haynes Boone has offices in New York, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Washington D.C., London, Mexico City, Shanghai and across Texas, representing agent banks in Fund Financings in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. With over 700 lawyers, Haynes Boone is ranked among the largest U.S.‐based firms by The National Law Journal.

Reed Smith

Reed Smith is a market-leading international law firm specializing in fund finance. With more than 1,600 lawyers across more than 30 offices, we advise lenders and funds on capital call/subscription lines, NAV and asset-backed facilities, secondary funds facilities, hybrid facilities, co-investment and GP/manager support facilities and other fund liquidity facilities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We have one of the largest team of fund finance lawyers globally and provide specialist advice on the new and developing products in this area. Reed Smith has particular capability with financings of direct lending, secondary and PE funds. Reed Smith’s fund finance team sits within our Financial Industry Group, that contains more than 194 lawyers who provide dedicated multi-jurisdictional services to clients in the financial sector, focusing on finance, funds, and investment management, regulatory, tax, litigation and commercial restructuring and bankruptcy.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (www.simpsonthacher.com) is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and today has more than 1,300 lawyers. Building on over 135 years of experience, the Firm has played a substantial role in many of the most complex and noteworthy transactions and matters of the last decades. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe.

The Firm offers a market-leading fund finance practice with deep experience providing fund- and asset-level leverage solutions for private equity, real estate, investment, special situations and infrastructure funds. Complementing the Firm’s preeminent private funds practice, our global fund finance team represents clients across a broad spectrum of transactions encompassing all aspects of the investment management business.

Walkers

Walkers' global fund finance group comprises dedicated fund formation and finance lawyers who act on complex and innovative fund financing solutions and advise clients across the world’s financial markets. As one of the first offshore teams to work on subscription line credit transactions and hedge fund financing platforms, for both lender and borrower clients, we provide an unmatched depth of expertise across our global network in the Americas, EMEA and Asia. In a volatile world we are a safe pair of hands in safe jurisdictions.

Our fund financing teams have been at the forefront of the development of the fund finance market in these regions, working closely with leading financial institutions, investment managers and law firms. Our people and our approach to solving our clients challenges are tried and tested, but that doesn’t mean we ever stand still.

Walkers' global fund finance group provides commercially focused advice to both lenders and borrowers on a range of financing solutions. Our multi-disciplinary team has an in-depth understanding of the structures used by investment managers and the legal and commercial issues relevant to fund finance providers. Our clients include agents, banks, alternative lenders and investment fund managers, including private equity, credit, real estate and hedge funds. Markets change, regulation evolves, businesses adapt, and we keep on reinventing our service for the times we find ourselves in.

Wells Fargo Bank

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets, proudly serves one in three U.S. households and more than 10% of small businesses in the U.S., and is a leading middle market banking provider in the U.S. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 41 on Fortune’s 2022 rankings of America’s largest corporations. In the communities we serve, the company focuses its social impact on building a sustainable, inclusive future for all by supporting housing affordability, small business growth, financial health and a low-carbon economy.

Montage Palmetto Bluff

: 477 Mount Pelia Road
Bluffton, SC 29910
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: Montage Palmetto Bluff

FAQ's

Please contact info@fundfinanceassociation with any additional questions

Payment and Cancellation Policy

To secure confirmation of registration, all registration dues and other applicable fees must be paid in full no later than 25 business days prior to the commencement of the Summit. Any unpaid registrations after this date will be subject to cancellation. [Payment received on or before Tuesday, September 9, 2025]

In the event the attendee can no longer attend the Summit, the FFA must be notified in writing via email at info@fundfinanceassociation.com. Refunds are available if written cancellation is received in accordance with the following schedule:

25 business days prior to the scheduled Summit: A full refund (less taxes, processing charges, and other fees) will be granted. [Notification received on or before Tuesday, September 9, 2025]
5 business days prior to the scheduled Summit: A 50% refund (less taxes, processing charges, and other fees) will be granted. [Notification received on or before Tuesday, October 7, 2025]
4 or fewer business days prior to the scheduled Summit: No refund will be granted.

Should a registered attendee wish to transfer their ticket to another approved attendee, written notice via email at info@fundfinanceassociation.com is required no less than 3 business days prior to the scheduled Summit. [Notification received on or before Thursday, October 9, 2025]

Final decisions regarding the application of this policy remain at the sole discretion of the FFA. In the unlikely occurrence that an event is cancelled, refunds will be granted at the discretion of the FFA. The FFA is not responsible for any additional costs incurred by attendees, such as travel expenses.

Know Before You Go

Transportation to and from the venue

SAV (Savannah/Hilton Head) ~ 45 min car ride to the Montage
Rideshare services (such as Uber or Lyft) are typically available from nearby airports to Montage Palmetto Bluff, but they are generally not reliable for return trips back to the airports from the resort. We recommend arranging ground transportation in advance through the hotel concierge or a car service to ensure a smooth departure.
Other nearby airports include HHH, CHS

What to Wear

The Summit dress code is business casual to casual. All content sessions will be held indoors, while meals and many activities are planned outdoors (weather permitting) to make the most of the beautiful Lowcountry setting. Please note that outdoor surfaces may be uneven, so comfortable footwear is recommended.
October is generally an ideal time to visit the Lowcountry; however, the Carolinas are known for unpredictable weather this time of year and sometimes significant temperature shifts throughout the day, so we suggest dressing in layers for comfort.