Name: 2025 FFA U: APAC
Start: 2025-03-24T10:00:00Z
End: 2025-03-25T14:30:00Z

James Abbott

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Risk Bases / Considerations, Borrowing Base, Exclusions, Overcall, Side Letters

10:00 AM | 2025-03-25

James Abbott

Partner | Corrs Chambers Westgarth

James is a financing specialist whose practice spans project, corporate and acquisition financing transactions and fund level financing, with a particular focus on the infrastructure and energy and resources sectors.

James has advised both sponsors and lenders on major greenfield and brownfield projects throughout Australia and Southeast Asia and has experience in syndicated and multi-source debt financing, capital call, NAV and GP financings.

James is Partner in Charge of the Sydney office.

Adam Baqui

Fitch Ratings

Top of Mind Topics- ESG, Ratings and Securitization

11:00 AM | 2025-03-25

Adam Baqui

Director, Funds & Asset Management | Fitch Ratings

Adam is a Director in the Fund and Asset Managers department at Fitch, where he was one of the leading analysts in the development of the company’s Subscription Finance Facility Rating Criteria, published in July/2023. Before joining Fitch, Adam worked as a Portfolio Manager at Brasilcap and served as a Sovereign Risk Analyst at ABGF, Brazil’s Export Credit Agency. At ABGF, he lead the development of risk assessment methodologies regarding political and exchange rate risks and acted as the Brazilian delegation’s official representant in OECD’s Country Risk Expert Meetings. Adam holds a Master’s degree in International Economics and Development from Paris Dauphine University.

Somdatta Basu

ING Bank N.V.

Advanced Liquidity Solutions

1:30 PM | 2025-03-24

Somdatta Basu

Head of Fund Finance APAC | ING Bank N.V.

Somdatta is Head of Fund Finance within ING’s APAC Fund Finance team with teams located in NYC, London, Luxembourg and Singapore. The team is part of the ING’s Financial Institutions Group and is responsible for the origination, execution and portfolio management of subscription facilities to funds managed by Financial Sponsors and Alternative Asset Managers across the APAC region.

Somdatta has been with ING for over six years and was previously part of ING’s TMT & Healthcare sector team, offering leveraged buyout, acquisition finance, project finance and corporate lending solutions. Prior to joining ING, Somdatta worked with Siemens Financial Services in their Corporate Lending team across India, US and Singapore. She has fifteen years of experience across Fund Finance, Corporate Lending, Leveraged and Structured Finance covering mid-sized corporate clients and sponsors across Asia and Australia.

Karen Chow

East West Bank

Career Conversations – Hosted by NextGen

2:00 PM | 2025-03-25

Karen Chow

First Vice President, Private Equity | East West Bank

Karen is the First Vice President under Private Equity team in East West Bank Hong Kong Branch. Her focus mainly provides customized and comprehensive banking services for Private Equity, Private Credit and Venture Capital Firms in Asia Pacific regions. Karen has been in East West Bank for more than 5 years with extensive experience on providing tailed made financing structure on subscription line, hybrid fund financing, management company line and GP financing to her clients.

Karen is currently a committee member of the FFA NextGen Committee in APAC. She is also a qualified CPA and CFA Chartereholder.

Fi Dinh

MUFG Investor Services

Enforcement Considerations and When Challenges Arise

1:00 PM | 2025-03-25

Fi Dinh

Managing Director, Head of Fund Finance APAC | MUFG Investor Services

Fi is Managing Director, Head of Fund Finance APAC at MUFG Investor Services where she lead the expansion of the firm’s fund financing business across Asia Pacific, as well as supporting the growth of the asset servicing and fund administration business globally to assist private capital funds with their liquidity and operational needs.

Fi is a familiar face of the fund finance community globally having supported the growth of this sector for over a decade across the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia markets. She was recognized in The Drawdown’s ‘Most Influential Fund Finance Experts of 2022’ globally. Fi is also active in supporting diversity and next generation development in the industry. She was one of the first members of the Women in Fund Finance Europe committee when she was in London and is co-chair of the Women in Fund Finance APAC since 2020.

Fi pioneered the global trend of ESG-linked fund finance facilities when she led the world’s first ESG-linked subscription credit facility in 2019, marrying the sustainability-linked loan technology that was gaining momentum in other sectors at individual company or asset level, to a portfolio framework that can be applied to PE funds even at the beginning stage of their lifecycle. She sits on the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Financial Centre Advisory Panel (FCAP) – Green Finance working group for the fund management industry since 2020.

Fi moved to Singapore from London at the start of 2019 to help build out the fund and insurance finance business for ING Bank across in APAC and led a rapid expansion of the business within a short few years, by offering creative solutions to GPs, drawing on her extensive experience with market terms in the US and Europe to promote alignments and scalability for the product in the APAC region. Before ING, Fi spent nearly a decade at Barclays in London and Dubai, where she was Director in the Financial Institutions Group and helped build a successful Private Equity coverage franchise supporting financial sponsors and alternative asset managers in EMEA and the US. Her earlier banking career spans across credit analysis, operational risk and project management in the investment banking and corporate banking divisions.

Victoria Eriksson

Ashurst

Welcome and Introduction to FFA U: APAC

10:00 AM | 2025-03-24

Victoria Eriksson

Senior Associate | Ashurst

Victoria is a Senior Associate in the Global Loans team at Ashurst in Sydney. Victoria has extensive experience in funds financing, acting for domestic and international lenders active in the Asia Pacific market, as well as private equity, private credit funds and venture capital funds in connection with Australian and offshore subscription finance, NAV and hybrid facilities, separately managed account facilities and GP facilities. Victoria is currently Co-Chair of the FFA APAC Next Gen Committee and is a past member of the FFA APAC Executive Committee.

Victoria also acts for lenders, funds and corporate borrower in relation to a wide range of debt financing including corporate finance, acquisition finance, structured and property finance, as well as borrowing base facilities and restructuring.

Fiona Gray

Linklaters Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Fund Due Diligence

1:30 PM | 2025-03-24

Fiona Gray

Partner | Linklaters Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Fiona Gray is a prominent banking partner at Linklaters in Singapore, with over 20 years of experience specialising in international finance. Her extensive expertise covers all manner of financings at every level in the capital stack, including fund financings, private credit financing, complex acquisition financings, structured and limited recourse financings, and margin lending across Asia.

In addition to her time at Linklaters, Fiona has previously spent 12 years at a leading European investment bank, advancing to managing director with oversight of loan financing transactions and legal teams across the region. Her leadership in investment and private banking is complemented by her English and Australian legal qualifications, which underline her capacity to engage effectively with parties with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

Tom Kirby

Bank of China

Putting Into Context of Current Market, and a Word on Ratings and Securitisation

1:00 PM | 2025-03-25

Tom Kirby

Managing Director | Head of Fund Finance | Bank of China

Tom joined Bank of China in Sydney in February 2020 and is a Managing Director heading up their fund finance business.

With more than 20 years’ banking experience with HSBC, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Bank of China, Tom’s background includes delivery of subscription and asset-based financing, transactional banking, risk management and global markets products to many of the world largest fund managers.

Tom has built a market-wide reputation for his strengths in relationship management and deal execution with the world’s largest financial Institutions.

Sylvia Li

ANZ

Welcome and Introduction to FFA U: APAC

10:00 AM | 2025-03-24

Sylvia Li

Associate Director in the Financial Sponsors team | ANZ

Sylvia Li is an Associate Director in the Financial Sponsors team at the ANZ, based in Hong Kong. She specialises in servicing private capital firms, offering a range of products including subscription finance facilities, hybrid facilities, real estate financing and hedging solutions. With over 10 years of experience in covering sponsor clients in the APAC region, Sylvia has extensive deal structuring experience within the Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australian markets.

Since 2024, Sylvia has been a committee member of Women in Fund Finance APAC. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.

Sally Little

ING Bank N.V.

Welcome and Introduction to FFA U: APAC

10:00 AM | 2025-03-24

Sally Little

Head of Financial Institutions APAC | ING Bank N.V.

Sally is head of Financial Institutions coverage for APAC. She leads a team of FI specialists within coverage and product teams (lending, TS and payments) across the APAC region, covering bank and NBFIs.

Sally has worked in London, and New York before moving to Singapore in January 2022. She has almost two decades of experience covering financial institutions, originating from the investment management industry, covering funds, sponsors and asset managers.

Sally is co-deputy chair of the Fund Finance Association APAC executive committee.

Richard Macfarlane

Linklaters

Benjamin Masson

Natixis CIB

Hybrid and NAV Facilities

10:00 AM | 2025-03-25

Benjamin Masson

Co-Head of Securitized Product Group and Alternative Credit Group, Asia Pacific | Natixis CIB

Benjamin Masson was appointed as Co-Head of Securitized Product Group (SPG) and Alternative Credit Group (ACG) for the Asia Pacific region in November 2024. He jointly leads the development of Natixis CIB’s SPG and ACG franchises across the region.

Previously, Benjamin joined the Global Structured Credit & Solutions (GSCS) Asia Pacific team in September 2017, contributing to the expansion of Natixis CIB’s structured credit franchise in the region, including fund financing.

With close to 20 years of experience in asset and structured finance, Benjamin began his career in New York in 2005 as a structurer of project finance transactions (bond and loan), initially with CACIB and later with Natixis from 2008.

In the summer of 2011, he transitioned to Paris and joined the newly formed GSCS team, focusing primarily on structuring capital call facilities for infrastructure PE funds while also gaining exposure to asset-backed securitization. In 2013, Benjamin moved to the syndicate team in Paris, where he worked on project, infrastructure, and export financings for the EMEA region.

Benjamin is a graduate of EPF, a French engineering school, and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada. He also holds a Master’s degree from Paris Dauphine University.

Soumitro Mukerji

DLA Piper

Hybrid and NAV Facilities

10:00 AM | 2025-03-25

Soumitro Mukerji

Partner | DLA Piper

Soumitro is a multi-specialist banking and finance Partner with extensive experience in the Asian and European financial markets. In his professional career spanning nearly two decades, he has advised financial institutions, funds, corporates and financial advisors across the credit and geographic spectrum. His practice covers sponsor-backed financings, fund financings, structured lending, limited recourse financings and corporate lending.

Soumitro has significant expertise in fund finance transactions and has counselled financiers and fund managers on a wide range of fund financing transactions across all asset classes, including subscription line financings, umbrella facilities, NAVs, hybrids, GP facilities and other forms of liquidity solutions. Since 2019, he has advised on fund finance matters exceeding USD8bn in value.

Peeyush Pallav

Mizuho Bank, Ltd.

Facility Agreement and Security Package

11:00 AM | 2025-03-25

Peeyush Pallav

Managing Director/Head - Real Estate Asset & Structured Finance/Asia-Pacific Corporate Banking Department | Mizuho Bank, Ltd.

Peeyush is part of the Real Estate Asset and Structured Finance team for Mizuho, based in Singapore, where the team is responsible for asset financing, securitisations and fund financing including sub lines, hybrids and GP facilities. Previously he was with Natixis in Hong Kong and prior to that, he was the Regional Head of Structured Debt Solutions at DBS Bank in Singapore. He has also held a leadership position at Fitch Ratings, and worked at HSBC and Standard Chartered in different capacities. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is passionate about sustainability and takes a special interest in ESG.

Rita Pang

Allens

Welcome and Introduction to FFA U: APAC

10:00 AM | 2025-03-24

Rita Pang

Partner | Allens

Rita Pang is a Partner in the Banking and Finance department at Allens. She is well-recognised as a fund financing specialist in the Australian Market. Rita has extensive experience representing funds as well as domestic and offshore lenders active in the Australian subscription finance market in connection with domestic and offshore private equity, private debt, venture capital and infrastructure fund financings. Her experience includes the development of hybrid, NAV, separately managed account facilities and GP facilities for domestic and offshore funds investing in the Australian market.

Recognised as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 in Banking and Finance, she also has broad experience acting for lenders, borrowers and sponsors in relation to various types of financing, including leveraged acquisition finance, corporate finance, asset and structured finance, property financing and restructuring.

Anthony Ribeiro

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)

Ian Roebuck

Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow

Putting Into Context of Current Market, and a Word on Ratings and Securitisation

1:00 PM | 2025-03-25

Ian Roebuck

Local Principal | Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow

A Local Principal in Baker McKenzie’s Singapore office, Ian has close to 20 years' experience advising banks and financial institutions, debt funds, private equity funds and corporates on a wide range of cross-border financing transactions including acquisition and leveraged finance, fund finance, structured and general lending, and special situations and restructuring transactions. He has advised on transactions in all key jurisdictions in South and South East Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region. Ian also has substantial experience advising on transactions relating to a variety of European jurisdictions and the US.

Ian is ranked as a leading lawyer for Banking and Finance in Chambers Asia Pacific. He has also been recognised as a "Next Generation Partner" for Banking and Finance in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific where he was noted as being "increasingly active in advising banks and funds on fund finance facilities". Ian’s contribution to the industry includes committee membership on the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association (APLMA) Singapore documentation committee, and the APLMA India committee.

Danielle Roman

Mourant

Advanced Liquidity Solutions

1:30 PM | 2025-03-24

Danielle Roman

Partner | Mourant

Danielle is a Partner in Mourant’s Banking and Finance team in Hong Kong, having practiced in Asia for over 15 years. She advises on a broad spectrum of cross-border transactions, including asset finance (with particular expertise in aviation and shipping finance), fund financing, acquisition and leveraged finance, debt restructurings, project finance, FinTech and general corporate lending.

In fund financing, she regularly represents investment and commercial banks on subscription credit facilities. She is also Co-Head of the Asia-Pacific Executive Committee for the Fund Finance Association, and is on the board of directors of Women in Fund Finance Asia. Danielle has been recognised for her work in fund finance through awards such as the Dee Dee Sklar Women in Fund Finance Award 2020.

Prior to joining Mourant in 2012, she worked at Clifford Chance in Hong Kong and Dentons in London.

Beelee Seah

Norton Rose Fulbright

Facility Agreement and Security Package

11:00 AM | 2025-03-25

Beelee Seah

Partner | Norton Rose Fulbright

Beelee is a Partner of Norton Rose Fulbright and is based in Singapore. He advises on a broad spectrum of financings, with specialisations in Fund Finance, Vietnam and South-East Asia. His clients include major international banks, financial institutions and sponsors. Clients have remarked that Beelee is "great to work with - intelligent, hard-working and always on top of his work" and that "his structuring skills have come in handy for us many times on multi-jurisdictional transactions". Beelee is also one of the core people behind Mindful Business Singapore, which is a ground-up initiative inspired by the Mindful Business Charter established by bankers and lawyers in order to promote better mental health in the workplace and reduce unnecessary sources of stress.

Anuj Shah

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Foundational Setting / Fund Structures

10:30 AM | 2025-03-24

Anuj Shah

Partner | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Anuj Shah is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Asia Banking and Credit Practice, based in Hong Kong. Anuj advises on cross-border financing transactions throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He represents a range of private equity firms, their portfolio companies, financial institutions, private credit funds and corporate borrowers across all levels of the capital structure. This includes fund level and NAV financing, back-leverage and mezzanine finance, acquisition and leveraged finance, real estate finance and infrastructure finance.

Anuj is passionate about diversity initiatives and has served as a member of the Firm’s Diversity Advisory Council since 2018. He is also an active member of the fund finance community and sits on the Fund Finance Association’s Asia-Pacific Diversity Committee.

Daniel Toblib

Macquarie Group

Risk Bases / Considerations, Borrowing Base, Exclusions, Overcall, Side Letters

10:00 AM | 2025-03-25

Daniel Toblib

Head of Fund Finance Origination, APAC | Macquarie Group

Daniel Toblib is the Head of Fund Finance Origination for Asia-Pacific (APAC) at Macquarie Bank. In his role, Daniel partners with private equity, private credit and hedge fund sponsors and investors to provide fund financing solutions.

Daniel has been at Macquarie since February 2016 and covers APAC from the firm’s global headquarters in Sydney.

Notably, Daniel spent over 5 years in New York, where he led Macquarie’s Fund Finance structuring function across North America. Over this time, he built deep expertise in providing bespoke and innovative financing solutions across the fund lifecycle, where the Fund Finance business was recognised on multiple occasions as PDI’s Fund Financier of the Year in the Americas.

Daniel has a Bachelor of Commerce (Distinction) and Bachelor of Economics (Distinction) from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Emily Tsoi

Jones Day

Career Conversations – Hosted by NextGen

2:00 PM | 2025-03-25

Emily Tsoi

Associate | Jones Day

Emily is an Associate in the Financial Markets Group at Jones Day’s Sydney office. She advises on a broad range of debt transactions, with a particular focus on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional leveraged finance and funds finance where she acts for a range of financial institutions, private credit funds, private equity sponsors and corporates. In the funds finance space, she has extensive experience advising on subscription lines and NAV facilities for a range of private capital funds.

She has recently been recognised as a "Senior Associate of the Year" finalist in the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2023, and is a current member of the FFA NextGen Committee in APAC.

Prior to joining Jones Day, she has worked at Clifford Chance (in their Sydney and Hong Kong offices) and Baker McKenzie (in their Sydney office)

Patrick Wong

A&O Shearman

Enforcement Considerations and When Challenges Arise

1:00 PM | 2025-03-25

Patrick Wong

Partner | A&O Shearman

Patrick is a partner based in Allen & Overy’s Hong Kong office. He has experience in a wide range of banking and finance transactions, including fund financings, bilateral and syndicated corporate lending, acquisition financings, equity margin financings, pre-IPO investments and other event-driven financings. Patrick regularly represents banks and non-bank financial institutions in structured cross-border financings in the Asia-Pacific region with a particular focus in Mainland China and Hong Kong. From 2010 to 2014, Patrick was legal counsel at Deutsche Bank partnering with the business to manage risks and produce tangible solutions on a range of debt products offered by the Structured Finance team.

Jean Woo

Ashurst

Top of Mind Topics- ESG, Ratings and Securitization

11:00 AM | 2025-03-25

Jean Woo

Office Managing Partner, Singapore | Ashurst

Jean is managing partner of our Singapore office and a partner in the global loans practice in the Ashurst Singapore office. She specialises in international banking and finance transactions, and has over 15 years of experience in the structured lending space in particular funds financing.

Jean has acted for banks, private funds and sponsors and has a broad exposure to a number of jurisdictions in Asia with a particular focus on jurisdictions in South and Southeast Asia.

Jean is a member of the Advisory Council to the Fund Finance Association (FFA) in the APAC region and is also a committee member of Women in Fund Finance. She also contributes to the Singapore chapter in the Global Legal Insights (GLI) publication on Fund Finance.

Frank Wu

DBS Bank

Foundational Setting / Fund Structures

10:30 AM | 2025-03-24

Frank Wu

Executive Director & Head of Private Markets Funds | DBS Bank

Frank Wu is an Executive Director & Head of the Private Markets Funds segment of DBS Bank. In this role. Frank is responsible for leading the development of relationships with Private Markets Funds at the fund level including PE, VC, Private Credit, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Fund of Funds across the global franchise.

As a founding member of the team, he is instrumental in building up DBS’ fund finance business and has partnered with GPs and investors to provide bespoke fund finance solutions throughout the fund lifecycle. He joined DBS as a Management Associate in 2011 and had previous roles in finance, internal audit and financial institutions group of DBS in Asia. He also served as a Council Member for the Graduate Associate Program of DBS Institutional Banking Group.

Frank is an active member of the fund finance community and serves as a member of the APAC Executive Committee of the Fund Finance Association, where he supports the investment funds market within the APAC.

He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business and BSc (Hons) in Statistics from National University of Singapore.

2025 FFA U: APAC

Cost: USD $250

Last updated March 6th, 2025

James Abbott

Adam Baqui

Somdatta Basu

Karen Chow

Fi Dinh

Victoria Eriksson

Fiona Gray

Tom Kirby

Sylvia Li

Sally Little

Richard Macfarlane

Benjamin Masson

Soumitro Mukerji

Peeyush Pallav

Rita Pang

Anthony Ribeiro

Ian Roebuck

Danielle Roman

Beelee Seah

Anuj Shah

Daniel Toblib

Emily Tsoi

Patrick Wong

Jean Woo

Frank Wu