FFA Event

11th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium

Name: 11th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium
Start: 2022-02-16T00:00:00Z
End: 2022-02-18T00:00:00Z
Location: Fontainebleau

February 16 - 18, 2022

MIAMI BEACH, FL

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The Fund Finance Association’s annual symposiums bring together investors, fund managers, bankers and lawyers for education and networking within the fund finance market. FFA hosts annual events in Miami, London, and Asia. The 2020 Symposiums were attended by over 1,700 industry professionals representing over 500 firms.

COVID Policy

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If you cannot agree to or accept the foregoing, DO NOT ATTEND THE SYMPOSIUM. Failure to agree to or abide by any of the foregoing may result in denial of entry or immediate expulsion from the Symposium, in the FFA’s sole discretion, in addition any and all remedies which may be available to the FFA, in equity or at law.

Agenda as of 02/08/22. Subject to Change.

Caroline Abramo

Pana LCE

Women GP Founders Paving the Way

10:20 AM | 2022-02-18

Caroline Abramo

Founder & CEO | Pana LCE

Caroline Abramo is Pana’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Abramo has been pioneering ESG metrics and carbon transition for over 30 years. Her previous experience includes commodities and infrastructure investing, including private equity experience through arranging financing for the earliest “green companies”. Ms. Abramo has advised on and taken ownership stakes in several green companies and platforms through Pana Advisory which she launched in 2011. Her knowledge and understanding of energy, power and commodities markets was developed through extensive work with commercialization of cutting-edge commodity technologies and execution of large-scale projects with companies such as Dynegy, Calpine, Cheniere, and Chesapeake while at Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas. Ms. Abramo further developed her investing skills by arranging financing for Freepoint Commodities and Metallica Commodities at Pana Advisory through an exclusive engagement with Carlyle. Through Pana, Ms. Abramo is an equity owner in Kimura Capital, a private ESG trade finance platform since 2016 (on-going). Ms. Abramo was most recently a portfolio manager for Lazard Asset Management’s Real Asset fund (BBG ticker RALIX) which included 300+ public companies across the real estate, infrastructure, and commodities space. Through years of meetings with senior management teams, Ms. Abramo has cultivated unparalleled relationships with the leading companies in this space.

Mike Arougheti

Ares

A Fireside Chat with Mike Arougheti

9:05 AM | 2022-02-17

Mike Arougheti

Co-Founder, Director, Chief Executive Officer and President | Ares

Mr. Arougheti is a Co-Founder of Ares and the Chief Executive Officer and President, as well as a Director of Ares Management Corporation. He is a member of the Ares Executive Management Committee and the Ares Enterprise Risk Committee. He additionally serves as Co-Chairman of Ares Capital Corporation ("ARCC"), Co-Chairman of Ares Acquisition Corporation ("AAC") and as a director of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation ("ACRE"). Mr. Arougheti also is a member of the Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending and Pathfinder Fund Investment Committees, the Ares Equity Income Opportunity Strategy Portfolio Review Committee and the Ares Operations Management Group. Prior to joining Ares in 2004, Mr. Arougheti was employed by Royal Bank of Canada ("RBC") from 2001 to 2004, where he was a Managing Partner of the Principal Finance Group of RBC Capital Partners and a member of the firm's Mezzanine Investment Committee. Mr. Arougheti oversaw an investment team that originated, managed and monitored a diverse portfolio of middle-market leveraged loans, senior and junior subordinated debt, preferred equity and common stock and warrants on behalf of RBC and other third-party institutional investors. Mr. Arougheti joined RBC in October 2001 from Indosuez Capital, where he was a Principal and an Investment Committee member, responsible for originating, structuring and executing leveraged transactions across a broad range of products and asset classes. Prior to joining Indosuez in 1994, Mr. Arougheti worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he was a member of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Mr. Arougheti also serves on the board of directors of Operation HOPE, a not-for-profit organization focused on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities through education and empowerment. Additionally, he is a member of the PATH Organization Leadership Council. Mr. Arougheti received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics, cum laude, from Yale University.

Tim Bailey

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Kelsey Baumberger

Milbank LLP

Fund Manager Developments

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Kelsey Baumberger

Partner | Milbank LLP

Kelsey Baumberger is a Partner at Milbank LLP in the Direct Lending and Specialty Finance Group. Her practice focuses on the representation of lenders and borrowers in domestic and cross-border financing transactions, debt restructurings and structured financings. A recent area of particular focus is representing institutional investors in providing financing solutions to alternative asset managers. She also has experience with direct lending, first and second lien credit facilities, syndicated acquisition financings, DIP and exit facilities, and asset-based lending.

Peter Beardsley

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Hot Topics in Fund Finance

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Peter Beardsley

Partner | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Peter Beardsley maintains a diverse lending practice focusing on cash flow credit facilities, fund finance (both capital call and management lines), private bank lending to high net worth individuals, asset-based loans and lender finance.

Peter has significant experience representing banks, credit funds and other financial institutions and lenders (as administrative agents, collateral agents and lenders), as well as borrowers, in all types of secured and unsecured credit facilities, including bilateral, club and syndicated credit facilities, structured finance facilities to business development companies, SPVs, and other specialty finance companies, acquisition finance, subscription finance, aircraft financings and ship financings.

Peter’s fund finance practice involves representing lenders on subscription credit facilities, hybrid facilities, NAV, management lines and co-investment facilities to all types of private equity funds, credit funds, real estate funds and other investment funds, from loans to the world’s largest sponsors to those in the middle market.

On the private bank lending side, Peter regularly represents lenders in connection with art loans, lending to not-for-profit organizations, securities backed loans (including single stock transactions, lending secured by restricted securities, operating limited partnership units in REITS and other organizations, etc.) and margin lending.

In addition, Peter has substantial experience in commercial loan workout negotiations, restructuring distressed credit facilities and representing DIP lenders.

Peter is a writer and speaker on matters of interest to financial institutions and leasing companies as part of various educational programs.

Michaela Beck

KKR

FX, Hedging & Ancillary Products

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Michaela Beck

Derivatives & Liability Management Associate | KKR

Michaela Beck joined KKR in 2021 in Global Macro, Balance Sheet & Risk where she leads Public & Private Markets Derivative risk management, responsible for foreign exchange and interest rate hedging strategy, structuring and execution across credit, private equity, infrastructure, and real estate funds and associated investments. Prior to joining KKR, she was with Morgan Stanley in their Corporate Derivatives Group. She holds a B.S. in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

Michelle Bolingbroke

Fund Finance Association

Closing Remarks (Day 2)

11:45 AM | 2022-02-18

Michelle Bolingbroke

Chief Marketing Officer | Fund Finance Association

Michelle Bolingbroke, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Head of Marketing and Business Strategy, brings over 18 years of experience in marketing and business development within the financial services industry. Michelle has played a crucial role in shaping the association initially as a volunteer on the marketing committee since our inception. In her elevated role, as a key member of the executive team, Michelle collaborates with the Chief Operating Officer (COO) to drive the organization's strategic goals. As CMO, she oversees external communications, establishes strategic partnerships, and promotes the association's brand globally. Michelle continues to be a driving force behind the Fund Finance Association's growth and success.

Kiel Bowen

Mayer Brown LLP

Syndication update

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Kiel Bowen

Partner | Co-Head of the Global Lending | Mayer Brown LLP

Kiel Bowen is a partner and Co-Head of the Global Lending practice at Mayer Brown. His practice focuses on representing lenders in fund finance transactions. Kiel has more than a decade of experience advising institutions on sophisticated cross-border fund-level financings, including bilateral and syndicated subscription credit facilities, net asset value credit facilities, hybrid facilities and management fee secured credit facilities. He is known throughout the fund finance market as a go-to source on structuring fund-level debt, investor documentation issues and the fund finance syndication market. Kiel is routinely called on to help clients develop and improve their fund finance platforms, processes and documentation. An industry-recognized thought leader, he is frequently invited to speak at industry events and regularly publishes insights on market developments.

Kiel is a cum laude graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University.

Roshan Chagan

Ares

Fund Finance Market Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Roshan Chagan

Partner | Ares

Mr. Chagan is a Partner in the Global Capital Solutions Group at Ares. Mr. Chagan is responsible for overseeing Ares’s global banking relationships and partners with various internal stakeholders on capital and hedging needs. Prior to joining Ares in 2018, Mr. Chagan was a Director at KKR where he oversaw hedging and liability management for various KKR products. Previously, Mr. Chagan worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, serving a variety of clients in the investment management industry. In addition, Mr. Chagan was in the banking industry in South Africa. Mr. Chagan holds B.Com (Hons) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in Commerce.

Christen Cohen

B of A Securities

Syndication update

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Christen Cohen

Director | B of A Securities

Christen Cohen is a Director in the Subscription Finance Group at Bank of America. Currently, Christen covers origination, structuring and on-going management of subscription line facilities for funds focused on private equity, buyout, debt / credit, fund of funds, and real estate, among others. She’s also actively involved in the syndication and distribution of subscription line facilities. Prior to focusing on subscription lines, Christen worked in asset backed securitization for five years. She began her career in capital markets credit risk management, focusing on counterparty credit risk. Christen has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Wake Forest University.

Tony Colarusso

Morgan Stanley

Secondaries

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Tony Colarusso

Global Head of Private Capital Advisory | Morgan Stanley

Tony is the Global Head of Private Capital Advisory at Morgan Stanley, based in New York.
Prior to founding the Private Capital Advisory practice, Tony was a Managing Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Morgan Stanley. He joined the Firm in 2006.
He has over 20 years of experience working with private equity firms on leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, equity offerings, and sales of portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he worked in the Leveraged Finance Group at Lehman Brothers and previously practiced corporate M&A and securities law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
Tony received a BA, with honors, from Vanderbilt University and a JD, with honors, from Georgetown University Law Center where he was an editor of the Law Review.

Steven J. Colombo

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

FX, Hedging & Ancillary Products

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Steven J. Colombo

Managing Director | Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Steve is a managing director within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he leads the team responsible for fund financing activity across the business, including the origination, structuring and execution of all financing arrangements. Steve also manages all lending relationships, and has shared oversight of business terms across trading agreements more broadly. He joined Goldman Sachs as a vice president in 2016 and was named managing director in 2021.

Prior to joining the firm, Steve held various roles at Tudor Investment Corporation, most recently as the global head of Treasury Operations. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 2006.

Steve serves on the Emerging Leaders Council of New Heights Youth, Inc., a sports-based nonprofit that is focused on youth development and education based in New York City. He also serves as a mentor within the Fund Finance Association.

Steve earned a BS in Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2006.

Tommy Constantinou

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd.

Fund Finance Macro Developments

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Tommy Constantinou

Co-Head of Fund Finance | Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd.

Tommy Constantinou is Co-Head of Fund Finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd. (SuMi TRUST) within the New York Branch Fund Finance Department. Tommy has led the expansion of the Fund Finance business within SuMi TRUST and is responsible for originating and executing fund finance related credit facilities. Tommy has extensive knowledge in various asset classes including Collateralized Loan Obligations, Subscription Finance, Middle Market Senior Leverage Facilities and Private ABS. Given SuMi TRUST’s unique position as investor, lender and asset manager within alternative investment universe, Mr. Constantinou acts as liaison between Asia and North America by leveraging relationships and knowledge within the SuMi TRUST global network. Prior to joining SuMi TRUST in 2011, Tommy was with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (formerly Citi Smith Barney) for four years within the Private Wealth Management Division. Mr. Constantinou is a graduate of Iona College and received his MBA from the Binghamton University School of Management.

Donald Cooley

Latham & Watkins

Fund Formation Developments

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Donald Cooley

Associate | Latham & Watkins

Donald Cooley is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Finance Department and the Private Equity Finance Practice.

Mr. Cooley represents borrowers in secured lending and other financing transactions, including:

Private equity and private debt subscription lines of credit
Acquisition and carve-out financings
Debt restructurings

Prior to joining Latham, Mr. Cooley was an associate at a prominent New York law firm. He obtained his JD from New York University School of Law and his BA in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In addition to his practice, Mr. Cooley served as a Global Chair of Latham's First Generation Professionals Affinity Group from 2018-2021, is a former member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and a current member of the firm’s Associates Committee. Outside of Latham, Mr. Cooley is also a member of the Fund Finance Association’s Diversity Committee.

Mr. Cooley was awarded the Fund Finance Association’s 2020 Inaugural Rising Star Award.

Vicky Du

Standard Chartered

Hot Topics in Fund Finance

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Vicky Du

Global Head, Fund Finance | Standard Chartered

Vicky Du is the Global Head, Fund Finance at Standard Chartered, managing a globally integrated team responsible for providing financial sponsors with fund level financing solutions.

Vicky has extensive knowledge and experience in Leveraged Finance, Structured Finance and Capital Markets. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Vicky worked at Goldman Sachs and GE Capital. Vicky received an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, and BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Nebraska.

Meyer Dworkin

Davis Polk

Secondaries

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Meyer Dworkin

Partner | Davis Polk

Meyer advises lenders and borrowers on a wide range of finance transactions, including acquisition and other leveraged and investment-grade financings, asset-based financings, debtor-in-possession and other distressed financings, and structured credit financings. His structured credit practice includes work on NAV facilities, capital call facilities, and single-asset and portfolio back-leverage transactions secured by liquid and illiquid debt, equity and other asset classes. In addition, he represents hedge funds, private equity funds and corporations in negotiating prime brokerage, derivatives and repurchase agreements, as well as other trading and financing documentation and complex structured financial products.

Meyer’s work is recognized by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and IFLR1000. Clients appreciate that Meyer “thoroughly understands every aspect of complex debt facilities, including current market norms, and advises in a highly pragmatic, efficient and responsive manner.”

Sarah Elliott

National Australia Bank Limited

Hot Topics in Fund Finance

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Sarah Elliott

Head of Client Coverage | National Australia Bank Limited

Sarah Elliott is Head of Client Coverage for NAB North America, and leads the Financial Sponsors, Infrastructure, Renewables, Asset Finance, Insurance, Banks, and Corporates coverage teams. Sarah is a member of NAB’s North American Executive Leadership team and Risk Committee. In the Financial Sponsors space, Sarah and her team work with open and closed-end Funds across the fund finance spectrum including subscription finance, NAV and Hybrid facilities, as well as FX and interest rate hedging. With 17 years’ experience in the market, Sarah has been based in New York for over 5 years, and during this time has led Fund Finance deals for some of the largest global Sponsors. Before NAB, Sarah was a Finance Attorney at top tier Australian law firm King & Wood Mallesons working with Funds across Fund Finance, Real Estate, Leveraged and Project Finance and DCM. Sarah holds qualifications in law (University of Sydney) and a degree in liberal arts, as well as business, finance and accounting certifications.

Annemieke Emerson

Comerica Bank

Fund Formation Developments

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Annemieke Emerson

Senior Vice President and Managing Director | Comerica Bank

Annemieke (Mieke) Emerson is a Senior Vice President and Managing Director with Equity Fund Services at Comerica Bank. Based in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Boston, Dallas and New York City, Equity Fund Services focuses on providing credit and depository products to select private equity and venture capital firms across the United States and in Canada. In her role, Mieke is responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of customized bilateral and syndicated credit facilities including capital call/subscription lines, General Partner financing lines and loans to management companies. She actively manages $2.5B in loan commitments within the group’s $8B portfolio. Mieke represents the business bank on Comerica Bank’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Education Council. She began her career in banking at Comerica Bank in 1997 and joined the Equity Fund Services practice in 2006. Mieke earned a B.S. degree in Finance from San Jose State University.

Dan Falta

ANZ

FX, Hedging & Ancillary Products

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Dan Falta

Head of Financial Sponsor Markets Sales | ANZ

Dan heads up the Specialty Funds foreign exchange business for ANZ in New York. He is currently in his 16th year with ANZ and 13th year leading the markets team coverage of financial sponsors. Most markets business is fund level foreign exchange, however, periodically Dan has facilitated fund and asset level rates hedging. In his role, Dan works very closely with ANZ’s Financial Institutions Group and Credit Professionals with the objective of maximizing ANZ’s relationship across all bank products.

Dan earned a BS in Management Information Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a Finance Certificate from New York University’s Stern School of Business (NYU Stern) and an MBA in Finance and Statistics from The Anderson School at the University of California, LosAngeles (UCLA Anderson).

After undergrad Dan worked 5 years for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in their financial and strategic services consulting groups. After his studies at NYU & UCLA Dan started his markets career at Paribas (now BNP), followed by stints at AIG Financial Products and Standard Chartered Bank. During his years with these banks, Dan’s primary focus was covering global macro hedge funds, CTA’s and traditional real money fund managers.

Dan currently lives in Wilton, CT with his wife Camille and has 3 children – Chase, Remington and Tate.

Jeff Feinberg

City National Bank

Beyond the Sub Line – Hybrids, NAV, and more

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Jeff Feinberg

Senior Vice President | City National Bank

Jeff Feinberg is a senior vice president in the Structured Finance team at City National Bank. Mr. Feinberg has been with City National since 2012, and runs the New York Structured Finance team. He is responsible for a team that covers private equity and credit funds bringing to bear financing, treasury and the full capabilities of City National Bank. Mr. Feinberg has led or co-led transactions in the capital markets, valued all together at more than $28 billion.

Prior to joining City National Bank Mr. Feinberg worked at GE Capital, where he was responsible for originating senior debt transactions in the communications sector. He has also worked at CIBC World Markets, TD Securities and Dean Witter Reynolds.

Mr. Feinberg earned a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia Business School.

Sarah Francis

Maples Group

Hot Topics in Fund Finance

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Sarah Francis

Partner | Maples Group

Sarah is a partner of Maples and Calder's Banking and Finance team in the Maples Group's Dublin office. Sarah has extensive experience advising on domestic and cross-border banking transactions. Sarah's practice focuses on advising lenders and borrowers in relation to corporate debt facilities, fund financing, acquisition financing, real estate financing (investment and development), fund financing and debt restructurings.

Sarah was elected as a partner in 2016. Prior to joining the Maples Group, she worked in the banking team at Allen & Overy in London and Addleshaw Goddard in Manchester. IFLR 2021 has ranked Sarah as 'Highly Regarded' and clients attest that Sarah is "Very clear communication, technically very strong and very personable" and "Excellent project management skills, customer service, attention to detail, responsiveness, knowledge of their field and communication". In Chambers Europe 2021, clients report that Sarah is "really commercial" and note her ability to give "sensible, commercial advice". She attracts further praise for her direct involvement in matters. Her broad practice encompasses real estate development finance, acquisition finance and loan-on-loan facilities.

Member of the Law Society of Ireland
Member of 100 Women in Finance

Jeff Frank

Angelo Gordon

Fund Formation Developments

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Jeff Frank

Treasurer | Angelo Gordon

Jeffrey Frank joined Angelo Gordon in 2014 as the firm’s Treasurer. Before joining Angelo Gordon, Jeff was a Vice President overseeing Treasury and Structured Funding for Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). During Jeff’s almost 16 years at GSAM he held several positions within their alternative investment businesses. Jeff was a member of GSAM’s private equity group and hedge fund strategy business units where he focused on liquidity, funding, structuring, and financial due diligence. Jeff holds a B.A. degree from Saint Anselm College.

Ron Franklin

Proskauer

Fund Manager Developments

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Ron Franklin

Partner | Proskauer

Ron D. Franklin is co-head of Proskauer's Corporate Finance Group and leads the Firm’s Fund Finance practice. He advises clients across a broad spectrum of finance issues, including secured and unsecured lending transactions, domestic and cross-border acquisition financings, all types of fund financings, project financings, workouts, restructurings and general banking concerns. He also counsels corporate clients regarding stock and asset acquisitions, contract negotiations and general corporate matters.

Christopher Galletta

SMBC

Fund Finance Market Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Christopher Galletta

Director | SMBC

Christopher (Chris) Galletta joined SMBC’s Subscription Secured Finance Department in 2021 as a Director on the Origination and Execution team. Prior to SMBC, Chris spent more than six years with Wells Fargo’s Subscription Finance Group, where he began as a member on the Origination team before being promoted as Head of the firm’s Collateral Management team. Before his tenure with Wells Fargo, Chris worked as a consultant with Deloitte’s Global Transfer Pricing team. Chris has a Bachelor of Arts and Science from Muhlenberg College with a double major in accounting and mathematics. Chris is a CFA charter holder.

Richard Golaszewski

Hunter Point

Leslie Goldman

The Artemis Fund

Women GP Founders Paving the Way

10:20 AM | 2022-02-18

Leslie Goldman

General Partner and Co-founder | The Artemis Fund

Leslie Goldman is General Partner and Co-founder of The Artemis Fund, a seed stage venture capital fund investing in mission driven female founders diversifying wealth creation. The Artemis portfolio companies are reinventing the way wealth is created, distributed, and consumed through three verticals: fintech, ecommerce, and caretech. Given the tremendous traction of Fund I, Leslie and her partners, Stephanie Campbell, and Diana Murakhovskaya, have launched The Artemis Fund II to continue to take more female founders from seed stage through growth, and show that diversity drives competitive advantage.

Leslie currently serves on the board of Dress-X, a digital clothing company offering a sustainable, accessible alternative to physical clothing. She also serves as a board member of UNest and board observer for CNote, two high-growth fintech companies addressing financial inclusion.

She also serves as an Advisory Board member of Deep Isolation, a company offering a safe technology for the disposal of nuclear waste, and Smartgurlz, a STEM education company that creates products to address the diversity gap in STEM. Her non-profit board work includes NACD Utah and Texas TriCities, the Egyptian Theatre Company, and the Yale Club of Houston.

Leslie is an active member of/advisor to several syndicates and Funds throughout the country. She has directly invested in over 60 early stage companies and 12 venture funds in addition to The Artemis Fund. Leslie holds a B.A. from Yale, an M.A. from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and a J.D. from Fordham Law School and is a #boymom.

Andrew Grant

Mourant

Legal Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Andrew Grant

Counsel | Mourant

Andrew is Counsel in Mourant's Cayman Islands office specialising in private equity, corporate and finance transactions. He advises financial institutions and sponsors on a wide range of finance matters, including fund finance, acquisition finance, repo transactions and margin loans and advises a wide range of clients on corporate matters, including consensual restructurings, take-overs, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholders arrangements.

Prior to joining Mourant, Andrew worked in the Real Estate Finance group at Clifford Chance LLP in London and the Corporate and Finance groups at Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto.

Terrence Gregersen

Natixis

Syndication update

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Terrence Gregersen

US Head of Capital Call Solutions | Natixis

Terrence is the US Head of Capital Call Solutions at Natixis. Terrence joined Natixis in 2006 and has extensive banking experience in capital call and hybrid financing, and securitization. He is responsible for managing the US Capital Call Solutions team which originates, structures, and syndicates capital call and hybrid facilities.

From 1998 to 2006, he worked in the Structured Finance Group at Financial Security Assurance.

Terrence holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Rutgers University.

Terence Hatton

MUFG Bank Ltd

Welcome Remarks

9:00 AM | 2022-02-17

Terence Hatton

Managing Director | MUFG Bank Ltd

Terry Hatton is a Managing Director and head of the Fund Finance Group for MUFG in New York. MUFG’s fund client base includes real estate, mezzanine, infrastructure, energy, private equity and venture capital. The bank has built an established track record, providing fund sponsors with competitive lending products, inclusive of subscription and bridge capital call facilities; senior and asset-based debt financing for general industries, as well as health care, environmental, and aerospace and defense. Terry has a bachelor’s degree from University of Western Ontario.

Tim Hicks

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Underwriting & Due Diligence Lessons Learned

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Tim Hicks

Partner | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Tim Hicks is a partner in Cadwalader’s Fund Finance group. His practice focuses on fund finance, and he has significant experience negotiating and documenting subscription credit facilities made to multijurisdictional fund vehicles, including private equity, real estate, REIT, infrastructure and debt funds. He routinely serves as counsel to lenders and lead agents on bilateral and syndicated credit facilities with complex fund collateral structures, including subscription-secured credit facilities, net asset value secured credit facilities and management fee secured credit facilities. Tim’s experience also encompasses working with fund-related borrowers on the negotiation of third-party investor documents with institutional, high net worth and sovereign wealth investors. He received his B.S. from Birmingham-Southern College, his M.S. in tax accounting from the University of Alabama and his J.D. from Samford University, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Cumberland Law Review.

Jocelyn Hirsch

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Fund Manager Developments

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Jocelyn Hirsch

Partner | Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Jocelyn Hirsch is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP whose practice focuses primarily on the representation of private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in complex financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, cross border facilities, asset based facilities and sponsor capital call/subscription and NAV facilities. Her experience in private equity covers multiple sectors including real estate, energy, infrastructure, secondary and financial services funds with aggregate funds raised totaling tens of billions of dollars. Jocelyn's client list spans the globe and includes Warburg Pincus, Vista Equity Partners, Ares, Golub Capital, HGGC, LS Power, TPG, JPM Infrastructure, Summit Partners and GTCR, among others.

Jocelyn is nationally regarded as a leading voice in the fund facility market and represents many of the world’s preeminent private equity, debt and related investment funds in complex and bespoke fund financings. She is routinely called upon to speak on fund finance topics.

Todd Hooper

HPS Investment Partners

Shari Huisman

Thoma Bravo

Beyond the Sub Line – Hybrids, NAV, and more

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Shari Huisman

Senior Director, Finance | Thoma Bravo

Ms. Huisman joined Thoma Bravo in 2012. She is the Chief Accounting Office and Senior Director of the finance department which is responsible for all financial administration and reporting of Thoma Bravo and the funds managed by Thoma Bravo, including cash management, recording daily financial activities,

funding of investments, preparing financial statements for the various funds and related entities, computing the funds’ investments at fair value in accordance with US GAAP, filing tax returns and forms, and reporting to the funds’ limited partners.

Prior to joining Thoma Bravo, Ms. Huisman was an Assistant Vice President in JPMorgan Chase’s Private Equity and Real Estate Services group, where she was providing fund administration services to private equity clients. Prior to JPMorgan, Shari was an Audit Manager at Ernst & Young working on private equity and other asset management clients. Shari is a CPA and has a BS degree in Accounting and a Masters of Professional Accountancy degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Jeff Johnston

EverBank

A Fireside Chat with Michael Lewis

4:05 PM | 2022-02-17

Closing Remarks

4:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Jeff Johnston

Head of Asset-Backed Finance | EverBank

Jeff Johnston is Senior Vice President, Head of Asset-Backed Finance, for EverBank.

Prior to joining the bank, Mr. Johnston was a Managing Director and the Head of Asset Management within Wells Fargo’s Corporate & Investment Banking group with oversight of a nearly $100 billion portfolio of bank commitments.

Prior to founding the Subscription Finance business at Wells Fargo in 2010, Mr. Johnston was responsible for the portfolio and workout of over $10B of legacy structured products for the bank, including cash and synthetic ABS and CRE CDO’s, total return swaps, and RMBS positions. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Johnston served in Bank of America’s Global Structured Products group.

Mr. Johnston is a Co-founder and Chairman of the Board for the Fund Finance Association, a global industry association for constituents in the fund finance space, is considered an original thought leader of fund finance and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Mr. Johnston is a CFA charter holder and is a graduate of the University of South Florida.

Bronwen Jones

Reed Smith

Legal Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Bronwen Jones

Co-Head of Fund Finance | Reed Smith

Bronwen is co-head of the Fund Finance practice at Reed Smith and has over twenty years’ experience in Fund Finance, having been active in the space since its inception in the London market.

She acts for banks and other financial institutions, sponsors, general partners, and fund managers on a whole range of fund finance matters including capital call (subscription line) facilities, Net Asset Value (NAV) facilities, hybrid facilities, and general partner and co-investment facilities.

She is ranked by Chambers UK in Band 1 for Banking & Finance: Fund Finance and is recognised as a “Leading Individual” in Fund Finance by The Legal 500 UK. The Reed Smith team is also ranked Band 1 in Chambers UK and Tier 1 in The Legal 500 UK for Fund Finance in London.

Bronwen brings significant market experience, innovative thought, and patience to sophisticated deals, and is renowned for her ability to deliver complex concepts to her clients.

Nick Jordan

CIBC BANK USA

Fund Finance Macro Developments

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Nick Jordan

Managing Director / Commercial Market Lead | CIBC BANK USA

Nick is a Managing Director and Commercial Market Lead within CIBC’s Non-Bank Finance Group, one of CIBC’s specialized Fund Finance groups. The business unit focuses exclusively on partnering with private debt firms who primarily serve the private equity community. He is responsible for the origination and structuring of solutions that provide incremental capital and service capabilities. This spans subscription lines, asset leverage, hybrid offerings, first-out or split lien financing and related banking services.

Previously, Nick spent the majority of his career with private debt provider Antares Capital leading the underwriting, structuring and syndication of cash flow loans for private equity backed transactions. He began his career with General Electric, holding a variety of roles across its businesses.

Nick earned an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University.

Sekou Kaalund

JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank

Diversity in Fund Finance Keynote Address by Sekou Kaalund

9:00 AM | 2022-02-18

Sekou Kaalund

JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank

With more than two decades of Wall Street experience, Sekou Kaalund has a proven track record of achieving revenue growth and developing highly profitable client relationships in start-up, turn around, and scale businesses. His unique background spans leadership experiences in staff and line roles across institutional and retail businesses. He has developed market strategies, managed strategic business transactions, and led complex organizations.

As head of Consumer Banking at Chase for the Northeast Division, Sekou oversees 1000 branches in five regions with 10,000 employees and over $350 billion in deposits and investments. He runs the largest division in Consumer Banking, which as a standalone is the equivalent of the 4th largest bank in the country. Sekou has a strong track record developing talent, forming inclusive teams, and leveraging a vast network to connect people with opportunities.

Sekou has established key connections across client segments and industries. As part of JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank, he managed some of the largest, complex firmwide relationships with Asset Managers and Hedge Funds. He also was the Americas Head of Sales for Public & Corporate Pensions and significantly grew the business, achieving four-years of record revenues. He joined JPMorgan as Head of Private Equity Fund Services Business Development and built a global team, winning new clients in countries previously unpenetrated.

Because of Sekou’s commitment to impact and experience building businesses, he was tapped to launch Advancing Black Pathways, the first global corporate initiative that leveraged a data-driven strategic framework to develop scalable programs to reduce the racial wealth gap. The success of this initiative—which included hiring thousands of black students, providing millions of dollars in capital to black businesses, and reaching over one million individuals with financial health content—led to a historic five-year firm-wide $30B commitment to advance racial equity.

Sekou’s contributions have been recognized by Ebony Magazine’s 2020 Power 100 list, “Titans of Industry”; SAID Institute 2020 Mark of Excellence; World of Money 2019 Wall Street Legacy Award; and Face2Face Africa’s 2019 “30 Black Stars”. He has been featured in publications, including BBC, Forbes, NBC, CNBC, Black Enterprise, and Essence. Sekou serves on several boards, including INROADS (Vice Chair) and America Needs You.

Additionally, Sekou worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Citi.

Ann Richardson Knox

Mayer Brown

Women GP Founders Paving the Way

10:20 AM | 2022-02-18

Ann Richardson Knox

Partner and Global Head of Fund Finance | Mayer Brown

Ann Richardson Knox is the office practice leader of the New York Banking & Finance practice and is the Global Head of Mayer Brown’s Fund Finance team. Ann also serves on the firm’s Partnership Board. Ann has spent 24 years structuring complex financings to US and global private funds, sponsors and portfolio companies and has represented both financial institutions and funds. Ann’s vast experience encompasses financings at every level of the capital stack and every phase of a fund’s existence.

Ann represents major domestic and foreign investment and commercial banks as lead agent and arranger in connection with subscription credit facilities and net asset value facilities. She has been lead counsel on many of the largest and complex such facilities to funds sponsored by the world’s preeminent fund sponsors and led the first ESG subscription credit facility in the US market. Ann’s practice also includes structuring novel solutions to provide leverage on fund portfolio assets, including private equity limited partnership interests, real estate, infrastructure, debt and portfolio companies. Notably, Ann led the first such portfolio leveraging financings to secondary funds more than fifteen years ago.

Ann has been involved with the Fund Finance Association and Women in Fund Finance industry groups since their inception and currently serves on the US Advisory Board of the Fund Finance Association and is the US Co- Chair of the Women in Fund Finance. She has been recognized by the industry as the 2021 recipient of the Fund Finance Association’s “Woman in Fund Finance Award”. Ann was named a 2022 Notable Diverse leader in law by Crain’s New York Business and has also been named a 2020 “Woman Worth Watching” by Profiles in Diversity Magazine.

Julia Kohen

Simpson Thacher

Fund Finance Market Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Julia Kohen

Partner | Simpson Thacher

A Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Fund Finance Practice, Julia Kohen concentrates her practice on representing financial sponsors in connection with debt financings for their private equity, real estate, energy, infrastructure, credit and other investment funds. She has extensive experience in complicated financings designed to provide fund-level leverage to facilitate and support investment activities, as well as management lines and co-investment loan programs. Julia has been recognized by Law360 as a 2020 “Rising Star” in Banking.

In addition, Julia has co-authored chapters in several editions of Global Legal Insights’ Fund Finance guide, which covers legal trends and developments in the greater fund finance market and provides law firms, financial institutions, funds and investors with comprehensive insight.

Laurie Lawler

Société Générale

Fund Finance Market Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Laurie Lawler

Managing Director, Head of Capital Call Financing, Deputy Head of FI Origination | Société Générale

Laurie Lawler is currently a Managing Director at Société Générale acting as Head of Capital Call Financing and Deputy Head of Credit & Structured Finance Fixed Income Origination in the US. In her current role, Laurie focuses on the origination of transactions across SG’s credit & structured finance product offerings in addition to running a subscription finance practice servicing SG’s Financial Sponsor, Asset Manager and Insurance Company client base. She joined SG in October 2018 from HSBC where she held various positions from 2006 through 2018, including Head of US Conduit Financing, Head of US Capital Call Financing and most recently was the Head of Structured Finance in the Americas. Laurie has over 20 years of experience in the origination, structuring and execution of structured financings ranging from traditional conduit securitizations to more esoteric fund financing transactions. Prior to joining HSBC, she spent five years within Citi's Global Securitized Markets division executing conduit securitization transactions. Laurie graduated from Iona College in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and was a Division I college athlete.

Steve Lessar

Blackrock

Secondaries

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Steve Lessar

Managing Director | Blackrock

Mr. Lessar is a Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager of the SLS team within BAI where he co-leads all aspects of investments and strategy for the SLS business. He is the co-chair and a member of the SLS Investment Committee. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2018, Mr. Lessar was a Managing Director and global co-head of the private equity secondaries business (the Vintage Funds) in the Alternative Investments and Manager Selection (“AIMS”) Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York. Prior to re-joining the AIMS private equity business in 2009, Mr. Lessar was a Vice President at Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking (now Trilantic Capital Partners) where he sourced and executed LBO and growth equity investments in the industrials and media and entertainment sectors. Prior to Lehman Brothers, he served as an Associate in both investment banking and AIMS at Goldman Sachs. In total, Mr. Lessar has over 20 years of investment experience across secondaries, primaries, co-investments and direct private equity. Prior to his financial services career, Steve served as an officer in the United States Army. He earned a B.S. in Engineering Management from The United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Michael Lewis

Best-Selling Author of The Premonition, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short

A Fireside Chat with Michael Lewis

4:05 PM | 2022-02-17

Michael Lewis

Best-Selling Author of The Premonition, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short

WHY MICHAEL LEWIS IS CAPTIVATING AUDIENCES
A sharp observer of politics, finance, and the evolution of American culture, Michael Lewis combines keen insight with his signature wit, making him one of today’s leading social commentators. Lewis’ program takes a fresh, hard look at the ever-changing value systems that drive our economic markets, political landscapes, and cultural norms, and how organizations can adapt their thought strategies to facilitate growth among all three.

ABOUT MICHAEL LEWIS
Financial journalist and New York Times best-selling author Michael Lewis has published sixteen books on subjects ranging from politics to Wall Street. Lewis‘s newest book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story follows three central characters — a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who worked in the White House — as they confront the pandemic and find that the response from the United States government is woefully inadequate. All of them put “their careers on the line” as they tried to avert catastrophe, according to Lewis.

In October 2018, Lewis released The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy, which examined a government in crisis. The Trump Administration notoriously failed to fill vacancies in some of the most important positions in crucial government agencies like the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, and Commerce. With so much at stake, Lewis sought out the (former) linchpins of the system — those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity kept the machinery running for so many years—and asks them what keeps them up at night.

In December 2016, Lewis released The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds. In keeping with his unparalleled ability to tell stories about quirky individuals who zig when everyone else zags (as The New York Times puts it), the book dives deep into the friendship of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky and their study of decision making and human errors in judgment. His previous book, the NYT #1 best-seller Flash Boys, took the financial market and business world by storm upon its release in March 2014. The story reveals how the legal—but highly questionable—practice of high-frequency trading (HFT) has allowed certain Wall Street players to work the stock market to their advantage.

In The Blind Side, published in 2006, Lewis tells the story of NFL Offensive Tackle Michael Oher, and how his life is transformed from being a teen living on the streets of Memphis after he is adopted by white Evangelical Christians. Before that, Lewis wrote Moneyball, a book ostensibly about baseball but also about the way markets value people. Both of his books about sports became Oscar-nominated films.

Two of his most popular releases, The Big Short and Boomerang, are narratives set in the global financial crisis. His other works include The New New Thing, about Silicon Valley during the Internet boom; Coach, about the transformative powers of his own high school baseball coach; Losers, about the 1996 Presidential campaign; and Liar’s Poker, a Wall Street story based in part on his own experience working as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers.

Mr. Lewis is a columnist for Bloomberg News and a contributing writer to Vanity Fair. His articles have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Slate, Sports Illustrated, Foreign Affairs, and Poetry Magazine. He has served as editor and columnist for the British weekly The Spectator and as Senior Editor and campaign correspondent for The New Republic. He has filmed and narrated short pieces for ABC-TV’s Nightline; created and presented a four-part documentary on the social consequences of the internet for the BBC; and recorded stories for the American public radio show, This American Life.

Mr. Lewis grew up in New Orleans and remains deeply interested and involved in the city. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Princeton and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their children.

Jeff Maier

Citizens

Diversity in Fund Finance Keynote Address by Sekou Kaalund

9:00 AM | 2022-02-18

Jeff Maier

Managing Director | Citizens

Jeff Maier is a Senior Managing Director on the Private Equity Finance team at Citizens Private Bank and based in New York. Jeff has worked in private capital since 2002 when he joined JPMorgan’s proprietary private equity group, JPMorgan Partners (JPMP). After the spin-out of JPMP in 2005, Jeff helped launch JPMorgan’s Private Equity Fund Services, a leading third-party provider of banking and fund administration services to private equity sponsors globally. In 2012, Jeff joined Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) to lead their Global Fund Banking group out of New York. During his tenure at SVB, Jeff was able to grow the New York Private Equity and Venture portfolio from $1B to over $6B in loan commitments. In 2017, Jeff and his business partner, Scott Aleali, joined First Republic Bank (FRB) to lead their Private Equity Finance business in New York. During their tenure at FRB, Jeff and his team originated over $8B in loan commitments. Jeff has extensive middle office, back-office, and business development expertise in private capital, including banking and lending to some of the leading private capital sponsors in the world. His team has experience lending to Funds, Management Companies, and GP entities.

Jeff holds a law degree from the University of Missouri and a B.S. from Illinois State University. He was a founding Board Member of the Fund Finance Association and current co-host of #FundFanatics.

Christina Marsh

Nomura

Secondaries

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Christina Marsh

Head of Sales Fund Financing and Solutions, Americas | Nomura

Christina is a Vice President on the Fund Financing and Solutions desk within Global Markets at Nomura. She specializes in lending, hedging and other derivative solutions for a wide variety of alternative asset investors.

Outside of Nomura, Christina is the Founder and Chair of Women in Secondaries (WINS) an industry organization dedicated to connecting, supporting and elevating women in the private equity secondaries market. She also serves on the board of Breaking the Chain through Education and is the co-chair of the Fiver Advocates of Fiver Children’s Foundation. She was the recipient of the Women in Derivatives Trailblazer award in 2021 and was a Women’s Bond Club Rising Star recipient in 2019

Christina graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers Business School with a degree in Finance and is a CAIA Charterholder

Mike Mascia

EverBank

FFA Update + Awards

10:15 AM | 2022-02-17

Mike Mascia

Head of Fund Finance | EverBank

Mike Mascia is the former Chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Finance Group and was a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He had a globally recognized fund finance practice, having represented lenders in subscription credit facilities to real estate and private equity funds sponsored by many of the world’s preeminent fund sponsors. He has been lead counsel on numerous hybrid facilities, and is one of the few attorneys in the United States with experience in both subscription credit facilities and CLO’s. Mike represents lenders on leverage facilities to secondary funds and other credits looking primarily to fund assets or NAV for repayment. Mike is the founder of the annual Global Fund Finance Symposium and he is a founding member and the Secretary of the Funds Finance Association.

Micaela Mastrogiannis

KKR & Co. Inc

Keenan McBride

Morgan Stanley

Underwriting & Due Diligence Lessons Learned

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Keenan McBride

Executive Director | Morgan Stanley

Keenan McBride is an Executive Director in Fixed Income Secured Lending at Morgan Stanley. Mr. McBride currently handles the origination, structuring, and distribution of subscription secured credit facilities for private equity funds globally, and has been covering the product exclusively for ten-plus years. His clients include top tier alternative asset managers headquartered in North America, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. McBride worked in the subscription finance group at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and on the leveraged finance syndications team at RBC Capital Markets. Mr. McBride graduated from Boston College.

Kevin McLeod

Cerberus Capital Management

Fund Formation Developments

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Kevin McLeod

Senior Managing Director | Cerberus Capital Management

Kevin McLeod, Head of Fund Development of Cerberus Business Finance and Senior Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management. Mr. McLeod joined Cerberus in 2006. Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. McLeod managed the leveraged finance origination and execution activities at CIBC World Markets from 1998 to 2006, where he originated, structured and executed transactions involving high yield debt securities, leveraged loans, privately placed mezzanine securities and merchant banking investments. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. McLeod was a member of the Investment Banking division of PaineWebber Group Inc. From 1986 to 1994, he worked as a mechanical and aerospace engineer for various organizations including the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Technologies Corp. Mr. McLeod is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and received an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Tina Meigh

Maples Group

Welcome Remarks

9:00 AM | 2022-02-17

Tina Meigh

Partner | Maples Group

Tina is global head of Maples and Calder's Finance team and is based in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. She leads the Fund Finance and Derivatives practice groups and also has extensive experience in all aspects of banking and securitisations. Tina represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on fund finance and other lending transactions, bank products, deal structures and on all types of secured transactions. She advises a large number of international associations and financial institutions on derivatives and issues surrounding related collateral packages in the context of insolvency in the Cayman Islands. She also has significant experience of general corporate and commercial matters and the establishment of offshore investment funds.

Tina joined the Maples Group in 2005 and was elected as a partner in 2012. She previously worked for Lovells where she completed a secondment to Citibank. Tina has been recommended in Chambers Global, Legal 500 as a 'Leading Individual' and Who's Who Legal. Clients praise that she "continues to maintain her stellar reputation with company and financial institution clients. She is responsive, always well informed, and knowledgeable of the marketplace and its trends."

Tina sits on the Board and is Vice Chair of the Fund Finance Association, a non-profit association for the fund finance market. She is also a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association (CILPA).

Nick Mitra

Société Générale

Market Evolution and Industry Perspectives

10:40 AM | 2022-02-17

Nick Mitra

Managing Director | Société Générale

Nick Mitra is a Managing Director in the Credit & Structured Financing platform at Société Générale. He is part of the team responsible for Capital Call, Hybrid, NAV facilities and PE Secondaries financings. Prior to joining Société Générale, Nick worked at Natixis where he headed the Capital Call financing business, He has also worked at Goldman Sachs and Accenture in different roles and was the CFO of an entrepreneurial start-up – UConnections.com – aimed at the education space. Nick started his career at Lehman Brothers as a trader’s assistant in the security lending/repo area. Nick has approximately 18 years of experience in the financial sector. Nick is also a co-founding member of the Fund Finance Association, an industry group dedicated to Fund Finance and related products, where he sits on the Board of the Association.

Nick holds an MBA in Finance from NYU and a BS in Finance from Lehigh University, and is a CFA charter holder. He is also the First Vice Chairman of the Fund Finance Association.

Sam Monfared

Preqin

Brett Morrell

Derivative Path

FX, Hedging & Ancillary Products

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Brett Morrell

Head of Risk Solutions | Derivative Path

Brett Morrell is the Head of Risk Solutions at Derivative Path where he is responsible for providing derivatives technology, advisory, and execution services to private investment funds and their portfolio companies. Brett has over 15 years of derivatives experience and, most recently, spent 6 years in the Global Markets group of Hudson Advisors, where he was responsible for derivatives and capital markets activities related to the global private equity investments of Lone Star Funds and advising other global financial sponsors on their derivatives activities. Brett began his career at Wachovia / Wells Fargo focusing on derivatives sales and structuring for corporates and non-bank financial institutions.

Shelley Morrison

abrdn

Fund Finance Macro Developments

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Shelley Morrison

Head of Fund Finance | abrdn

Shelley Morrison is Head of Fund Financing at abrdn with extensive experience in the origination, structuring and execution of fund level debt facilities. She has been with the company since 2019. Before joining the company, Shelley was a Relationship Director in the Fund Finance team at RBS for 6 years where she managed a portfolio of subscription loans, NAV loans and GP finance to global funds across Private Equity, Private Debt, Infrastructure and Real Estate. Prior to that, she worked in structured asset finance at RBS and Lloyds for 10 years, with a focus on commercial ship finance. Shelley received a first-class honours degree in Geography and an MSc in Social and Political Theory, both from the University of Edinburgh.

Jad Nader

Ogier

Michael O’Connor

Conyers

Mark O’Sullivan

Dyal Capital

Fund Manager Developments

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Mark O’Sullivan

Managing Director of Blue Owl | Dyal Capital

Mark O’Sullivan is a Managing Director of Blue Owl and member of the Dyal Investment Team. Based in New York, he is focused on underwriting equity and financing transactions and managing Dyal’s ongoing relationships with its partner managers. Before joining Blue Owl, Mark was a Managing Director at Dyal Capital Partners within Neuberger Berman. Prior to joining Dyal, Mark worked as a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in the Corporate Development group. Prior to that, he was a Senior Engagement Manager at Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm focused on the financial services industry. Mark began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the Financial Institutions Group.

Mark received a MS in Financial Management from Nyenrode University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Technical College Delft.

Chrissie Pariso

MPowered Capital

Women GP Founders Paving the Way

10:20 AM | 2022-02-18

Chrissie Pariso

Managing Director | MPowered Capital

Chrissie Chen Pariso is the Managing Director at MPowered Capital, a firm focused on narrowing the investing gap for women-and minority-led and owned funds. Founded by Marcia Page, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair of Värde Partners, the firm is focused on accelerating equity for Diverse Talent through capital, commitment, and connections.

Chrissie is a long-time advocate in supporting industry-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives, with 20 years of investment experience. Prior to this role, Chrissie was a Senior Portfolio Manager of Private Equity at Exelon Corporation and Head of Exelon’s Women & Minority Manager Program. While at Exelon, Chrissie sourced, diligenced, and committed over $1.8 billion across venture capital, growth equity, buyout and distressed funds globally. Chrissie led Exelon’s Women and Minority-Owned Manager Program and developed and executed Exelon’s first Investment Office Diversity and Inclusion Survey across asset classes. Prior to Exelon, Chrissie was a Vice President at middle-market buyout firm Sterling Partners.

Chrissie received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her MBA from The University of Chicago – Booth School of Business. She is a board member and Midwest Steering Committee member for Women’s Association of Venture and Equity (WAVE). Additionally, Chrissie is a member of Private Equity Women’s Investor Network (PEWin).

Geoff Peck

Morrison & Foerster

Legal Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Geoff Peck

Partner | Morrison & Foerster

Geoff Peck is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s New York office. Geoff has extensive experience closing a wide range of global private fund investment transactions across asset classes. This includes committed and uncommitted capital call and subscription lending, hybrid and NAV structures, high net worth and private banking financings, umbrella facilities, management fee and general partner financings, and preferred and other equity financings. Additionally, Geoff has broad experience with acquisition, asset-based, complex intercreditor, trade, warehouse, and distressed and bankruptcy financings. He maintains an active pro bono practice and is the president of the board of trustees of GAIA, a non-profit organization providing life-saving health services in sub-Saharan Africa.

Alex Phillips

PNC Bank

Fund Finance Macro Developments

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Alex Phillips

Managing Director | PNC Bank

Alex Phillips is a Managing Director in PNC’s Financial Institutions Group (“FIG”) specializing in asset managers, wealth managers and other diversified financial institutions with a focus on alternative asset management. He is responsible for providing strategic advisory expertise as well as the origination, structuring and execution of corporate credit transactions to select financial services clients of PNC.

Alex joined PNC in 2016 from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods where he worked in the Investment Banking division specializing in strategic advisory, mergers & acquisitions and capital markets transactions for non-bank financial services institutions.

Alex is a graduate of Bucknell University with a B.S.B.A in Business Management and Accounting.

Ryan S. Plasky

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Hot Topics in Fund Finance

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Ryan S. Plasky

Partner | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Ryan S. Plasky is a partner in Fried Frank’s Corporate Department and Finance Practice, resident in the Washington, DC office. He joined the Firm in 2010 and became partner in 2020.

Mr. Plasky represents sponsors of private equity, debt, infrastructure, real estate, energy and other investment funds and REITS on a broad range of fund level financings and other corporate matters including subscription credit facilities, asset-backed facilities, NAV-based facilities, “hybrid” facilities and repurchase agreements. Mr. Plasky also represents private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and financial institutions in leveraged acquisition financings, holdco loans and direct lending leveraged transactions.

Mr. Plasky received his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2007, and his BA, magna cum laude, from Cornell University in 2003. He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and New York.

Tim Powers

Haynes Boone

Market Evolution and Industry Perspectives

10:40 AM | 2022-02-17

Tim Powers

Senior Counsel | Haynes Boone

Tim Powers is Senior Counsel at Haynes and Boone where he has practiced for over 40-years. He served as the firm’s Managing Partner from 2015-2020. Tim is widely credited with having led the legal development of the subscription-secured credit facility market, which has grown over the last 35 years to an annual market size of more than $700 billion. He led, and now advises, the firm’s fund finance team, which has become a global leader in the representation of U.S. and foreign commercial and investment banks in subscription financings for private equity funds. In recognition of his seminal role in the industry, the Fund Finance Association honored Tim with its Julian Black Contribution to the Industry Award in 2019.

Chambers USA has named Tim an "Eminent Practitioner" in Texas and one of America’s leading lawyers for banking and finance (2010-2021). Tim has also served in senior leadership roles and on the boards of directors of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, Dallas Regional Chamber, YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas, SMU Tate Lecture Series, and Crossroads Community Services. He also has served as a trustee of The First United Methodist Church - Dallas. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 2019, Tim was appointed by Mayor Eric Johnson to chair the City of Dallas Ethics Advisory Commission and to assemble and lead a task force charged with overhauling the city's ethics code and establishing safeguards to ensure ethical behavior in government. In 2021, the Dallas City Council unanimously approved and adopted into law each of the proposed reforms that were recommended by the task force.

Tim is an honors graduate in Political Science from UCLA (1977), where he was a 3-year varsity oarsman on the UCLA crew. He received his law degree from the SMU Dedman School of Law (1980) and was named a distinguished alumnus of the law school in 2020.

Georgina Pullinger

Appleby

Fund Finance Market Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Georgina Pullinger

Partner | Appleby

Georgina Pullinger is a Partner in Appleby’s Cayman Islands office, who specialises in banking and finance and general corporate matters. She has extensive experience in all aspects of finance transactions, with a particular focus on fund finance.

Prior to joining Appleby, Georgina worked in project finance at Norton Rose Fulbright in both Australia and London, where she also undertook a six-month secondment at Citibank.

Georgina is ranked by Chambers as Band 3 in “Corporate & Finance” and by Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Partner – Banking, Finance & Capital Markets”.

Natasha Puri

Lloyds Bank

Beyond the Sub Line – Hybrids, NAV, and more

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Diversity in Fund Finance Keynote Address by Sekou Kaalund

9:00 AM | 2022-02-18

Natasha Puri

Director | Lloyds Bank

Natasha is a Vice President on the Sponsors & Structured Finance team based in New York at Lloyds Bank. In her role, Natasha is responsible for the origination and structuring of fund financing facilities and hedging products for private equity, real estate, infrastructure, secondaries and private debt managers. Her experience includes finance structuring across traditional capital call lines, hybrid, and NAV facilities, as well as fund-level FX solutions.

Natasha is the Founder and Global Chair of the FFA’s Diversity in Fund Finance Group. Natasha started the initiative in 2017, and has championed its efforts to grow into a global committee, driving DE&I engagement within the organization. She was recognized by the FFA with the Rising Star Award in 2020 and the inaugural recipient of the Diversity in Fund Finance Award in 2021 for her outstanding contributions to the industry. Within Lloyds Bank, Natasha is an active member of the local DE&I committee and was recognized as a DE&I Role Model.

Prior to joining Lloyds in 2017, Natasha worked at PwC for ~5 years where she was a Senior Associate in the Alternative Investments practice. Natasha is a Certified Public Accountant in New York with a BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University.

Shana Ramirez

Katten

Legal Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Shana Ramirez

Partner | Katten

Shana's multi-disciplined practice spans deals ranging from multibillion-dollar, broadly syndicated credit facilities to smaller bilateral loans. She has represented public companies, leading financial institutions and investment banks, private equity funds and private debt providers in a wide range of secured and unsecured financings, including acquisition financings, asset-based credit facilities, and restructurings and recapitalizations.

Her extensive experience in fund finance includes representation of both borrowers and lenders across multiple sectors, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private credit. In addition to closing a high volume of subscription line credit facilities, she has counseled clients on transactions ranging from hybrid facilities and loan-on-loan transactions to warehouse financings.

Shana's experience in both fund and portfolio level financings provides her with a unique perspective of the market that her clients rely on for their various financing needs.

Ram Rao

Macquarie

Beyond the Sub Line – Hybrids, NAV, and more

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Ram Rao

Managing Director | Macquarie

Ram Rao is a Managing Director on the Fund Finance team within Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets business. Ram focuses on providing financing solutions to Alternative Funds and Institutional Investors. His experience covers Secondaries financing, NAV facilities, subscription lines, hybrid facilities, dividend recapitalizations and hedge fund leverage. Prior to joining Macquarie, Ram held senior positions with Barclays, Merrill Lynch and UBS.

Ram has a bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ryan Riordan

MUFG Securities

Syndication update

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Ryan Riordan

Vice President | MUFG Securities

Ryan Riordan is currently a Vice President within MUFG’s Capital Markets Group. In his current role Ryan focuses on loan capital markets product offerings across the subscription finance, oil & gas, chemical and waste management sectors. Ryan has over 10 years of experience in origination, structuring and distribution of structured financings including fund financing, reserved based lending, term loan B and bridge loans. Ryan graduated from Rutgers University in 2011 with Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.

Joe Rocco

Blackstone

Market Evolution and Industry Perspectives

10:40 AM | 2022-02-17

Joe Rocco

Managing Director | Blackstone

Joseph Rocco is a Managing Director in Blackstone Treasury and is involved in credit and risk management initiatives for Blackstone’s Treasury operations, including risk assessment for the firm’s cash management and investment strategies. He works closely with counterparts from throughout the firm and its funds on funding initiatives and FX hedging and trading strategies. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Rocco worked at Moody’s Investors Service covering residential mortgage and asset-backed securities where his primary responsibilities included rating surveillance, methodology development and sector commentary. Mr. Rocco holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BS in Finance from Fordham University.

Alistair Russell

Carey Olsen

Legal Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Alistair Russell

Partner | Carey Olsen

Alistair is a partner in the corporate and finance group of Carey Olsen in the Cayman Islands and advises on all aspects of finance, corporate, investment funds and commercial law.

He advises clients on a broad range of transactions, including financing, private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets.

Alistair was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2008 and as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands in 2013. Prior to re-locating to the Cayman Islands, Alistair was formerly with Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, each in London.

Alistair obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law with distinction from Christ Church, Oxford University, and an LLB with first class honours from Kings College London.

Steve Rutkovsky

Ropes & Gray LLP

Swapnil Sankhe

Standard Chartered Bank

FX, Hedging & Ancillary Products

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Swapnil Sankhe

Director, Sponsor Solutions Americas | Standard Chartered Bank

Swapnil is a Director within Strategic Investors Group Sales at Standard Chartered Bank. His primary focus is on providing foreign exchange and interest rate risk management solutions to Financial Sponsors. He has over 12 years of experience advising clients on hedging market risks across emerging as well as developed markets. Prior to his current role, he has worked in teams within Standard Chartered Bank responsible for covering Central Banks, Developmental Organizations, Pension Funds, Banks and Broker Dealers for their financial markets needs.

Swapnil is a CFA charterholder and has a Master’s degree in Management Studies from the University of Mumbai.

Darren Schluter

PJT Partners

Portfolio Finance 2.0

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Darren Schluter

Managing Director | PJT Partners

Darren Schluter is a Managing Director in the Secondary Advisory Group of PJT Park Hill at PJT Partners, based in New York. Prior to joining PJT Park Hill in 2011, Mr. Schluter was part of the private equity team at Landmark Partners where he sourced and underwrote secondary investments. Prior to Landmark, he worked in the M&A and capital markets groups at ABN AMRO. Mr. Schluter has over 18 years of investment banking, private equity, and secondary market experience. He is responsible for advising financial sponsors and limited partners in secondary market transactions including fund continuation vehicles, single asset/direct investments, LP fund portfolio sales, team spin-outs, GP stakes, structured solutions including preferred equity and NAV financings as well as direct investments. Mr. Schluter received a BA in Economics from Williams College and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Additional Mr. Schluter serves on the Board of Directors for the Friends of Governors Island and Fiver Children’s Foundation.

Eric Schwitzer

Paul Hastings

Fund Formation Developments

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Eric Schwitzer

Partner, Real Estate Department | Paul Hastings

Eric Schwitzer is a partner in the Real Estate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He practices in all areas of commercial real estate transactions, with a primary focus on real estate and real estate related corporate finance. Mr. Schwitzer represents major financial institutions, developers, and private equity funds in connection with complex domestic and international commercial matters, including cross-border investment platforms, corporate credit facilities, capital commitment-backed subscription credit facilities, commercial loans, restructurings, bankruptcy, loan sales, loan workouts, acquisitions, and dispositions.

Mr. Schwitzer received his J.D. degree from Hofstra University, School of Law in 2008, where he served as the Senior Associate Editor of the Hofstra Law Review. Mr. Schwitzer earned his B.A. in political science from Boston University in 2005.

Saaima K. Shahin

New Mountain Capital

Women GP Founders Paving the Way

10:20 AM | 2022-02-18

Saaima K. Shahin

Managing Director & Private Equity CFO | New Mountain Capital

Saaima K. Shahin, Managing Director and Private Equity Chief Financial Officer, joined New Mountain Capital in 2015. In this role, Saaima oversees the financial reporting, accounting and administration of New Mountain’s private equity funds and the firm’s general partner operations. She brings over twenty years of experience managing private equity and venture capital accounting, portfolio company valuations, reporting and financial systems. Prior to joining New Mountain, Saaima worked at Lime Rock Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. She began her career at Arthur Andersen, followed by Deloitte & Touche, where she was responsible for developing client relationships and overseeing private equity and venture capital audit engagements. Saaima is the US Committee Member of the Women in Fund Finance organization. New Mountain Capital, together with its affiliates, manages private equity, credit and net lease capital with aggregate assets under management totaling more than $35 billion.

Konstyantyn Shcherbakov

The Bank of New York Mellon

Fund Finance Macro Developments

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Konstyantyn Shcherbakov

Head of Alternative Funds Lending | The Bank of New York Mellon

Konstyantyn Shcherbakov, CFA is the Head of Alternative Funds Lending at The Bank of New York Mellon. In his role Konstyantyn is responsible for overseeing fund finance offering for the institutional side of the BNYM across capital call finance, NAV lending and other debt products extended to Private Equity and Hedge Funds. Konstyantyn re-joined The Bank of New York Mellon in September 2021 where he started his career during 2006-2010 covering hedge funds, banks and broker-dealers. In between he held variety of roles primarily focused on the Financial Sponsors both on the client coverage and structured finance sides at Santander, ABN AMRO and Barclays. Konstyantyn has MBA in Finance from Rutgers Business School.

Pramit Sheth

Whitehorse Liquidity Partners

Secondaries

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Pramit Sheth

Senior Principal, Head of Structured Products | Whitehorse Liquidity Partners

Pramit Sheth joined Whitehorse Liquidity Partners in 2023 and has 18 years of credit experience in the structured and fund finance industry. Prior to joining Whitehorse, Pramit spent 12 years with Kroll Bond Rating Agency as a Senior Managing Director. In his most recent role there, Pramit was accountable for all new and existing Investment Funds debt ratings globally. Prior to that he was a senior member of the CMBS Structured Finance Ratings team, where he helped develop various methodologies and was part of the analytical credit team. Pramit holds a Bachelors Degree in Finance and Information Systems with a concentration in Mathematics from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Brent Shultz

Haynes Boone

Underwriting & Due Diligence Lessons Learned

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Brent Shultz

Partner | Haynes Boone

Having negotiated and closed billions of dollars of complex debt financings, Brent Shultz helps companies in the banking, private equity, and energy industries serve their customers and employees, and thrive in any business environment.

Clients seek Brent’s representation in connection with fund finance, including capital commitment-secured facilities; energy finance, including reserve-based lending and credit facilities to midstream companies; cash-flow facilities, including investment-grade and other corporate finance transactions; and asset-based facilities, including asset-based lending, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, and project finance. Brent also handles restructuring, bankruptcy, and workout matters.

Brent’s problem-solving approach to financing transactions is informed by his prior work as a financial analyst and strategic planner at a major airline, where he advised senior management on major strategic initiatives. Clients trust Brent to listen closely to them, to understand their goals, and to execute their most important transactions in a smooth, practical, and business minded manner. In recognition of his professional excellence, Brent was named “One to Watch” in banking and finance by the 2020-2021 Best Lawyers, Woodward/White, Inc.,directory.

Brent serves on our pro bono committee, representing clients in veterans’ matters and acting as counsel for The H.E.A.R.T. Program, a Houston nonprofit that helps adults with intellectual/developmental differences to achieve their potential. He also takes an active role in his community, holding leadership roles with his local church and volunteering with charitable organizations. He is the proud father of two daughters.

Guy Simpson

Bridge Bank

Sherri Snelson

White & Case

Secondaries

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Sherri Snelson

Partner | White & Case

Sherri Snelson is a partner in White & Case's Debt Finance practice, based in New York. Sherri has extensive experience acting as lead counsel for fund finance lenders and borrowers, in connection with leveraged finance and fund/portfolio finance transactions. Sherri is dual qualified in New York and England & Wales and practiced previously in the UK. Sherri has acted as lead counsel on hundreds of finance transactions that span a wide array of industries and jurisdictions throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Ed Soogrim

Capital One Bank

Fund Formation Developments

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Ed Soogrim

Director, Fund Finance & Leveraged Credit | Capital One Bank

Ed is a Director in the Financial Institutions Group at Capital One Bank, focusing on originating and structuring subscription finance and leveraged credit transactions. Prior to joining Capital One, he spent six years in HSBC’s Financial Sponsors Group. Ed has also held positions with Citi, Barclays and J.P. Morgan.

Ed holds a Master’s degree in International Economics and Finance from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Pace University.

Sorkin, Jenn (Fortress Investment Group)

Jenn Sorkin

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Hot Topics in Fund Finance

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Jenn Sorkin

Managing Director - Head of Valuation and Financing | Fortress Investment Group LLC

Jennifer Sorkin is a Managing Director and the Head of Financing and Head of Valuations for the Credit and Real Estate Funds at Fortress Investment Group LLC. She was previously the Treasurer and Head of Operations for the Credit and Real Estate Funds. Ms. Sorkin joined Fortress in January 2004. Prior to joining Fortress, Ms. Sorkin worked in the private investment operations group at Prudential Investment Management. Ms. Sorkin received a B.S in Finance from the University of Maryland.

Leon Stephenson

Reed Smith LLP

Beyond the Sub Line – Hybrids, NAV, and more

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Leon Stephenson

Partner | Co-Head Fund Finance | Reed Smith LLP

Leon is co-lead of the Reed Smith fund finance team, based in London. Leon and the team work with banks, other financial institutional lenders, managers, general partners and limited partners of funds on specialist fund financing transactions with private equity, secondaries, real estate, direct lending and infrastructure funds.

Leon has particular specialist knowledge of NAV/asset-backed and hybrid facilities, secondary funds facilities, capital call facilities, co-investment and GP/manager support facilities and other types of liquidity facilities provided to funds.

Leon is recognized as a “Leading Individual” in Fund Finance by Legal 500 UK 2023 and the team is recognized in Band 1 in Fund Finance by both Legal 500 UK 2023 and Chambers & Partners UK 2023. Leon was also recognized as “Partner of the Year for Banking” at the Client Choice Awards 2017. Leon represents a large proportion of lenders that provide fund financing as well as a number of private equity and other funds on complex fund finance transactions.

Stephen Stiles

Goldman Sachs

Fund Manager Developments

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Stephen Stiles

Managing Director | Goldman Sachs

Stephen is co-head of the corporate structured finance business within the Financing Group. Previously, he was co-head of the Technology, Media and Telecom structured finance business. Stephen joined Goldman Sachs in 2010 and was named managing director in 2017.

Prior to joining the firm, Stephen was an attorney in the Financing Group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York.

Stephen earned a BA in History from the University of Washington and a JD from the George Washington University Law School.

Patricia Teixeira

Ropes & Gray

Julie Thick

J.P. Morgan Chase

Syndication update

2:55 PM | 2022-02-17

Julie Thick

Managing Director | J.P. Morgan Chase

Julie is the head of J.P. Morgan Chase's commercial real estate subscription lending platform. Julie works closely with institutional investors and fund managers on strategically investing in real estate.

Julie began her career structuring and underwriting commercial real estate loans for LaSalle Bank in 1995, before moving to Jones Lang LaSalle to assist clients with land development strategies. In 1998, she rejoined LaSalle Bank to develop and manage an institutional real estate division before joining RBS Citizens in 2008, where she was hired to build out a team focused on the generation of new business and asset management for a portfolio of real estate loans. Julie joined J.P. Morgan in 2010.

She is a former President and current board member of the Chicago Chapter and National Board of the Real Estate Lenders Association (RELA). Julie acts a mentor for the Goldie Initiative, which focuses on advancing the next generation of women leaders in the real estate industry.

Julie received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Illinois, and frequently returns to campus as a guest lecturer.

A native of the Chicagoland area, Mrs. Thick resides in Hinsdale, IL with her husband, Scott, and three children, Kaitlyn, Tyler and Dylan.

Ramya S. Tiller

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Portfolio Finance 2.0

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Ramya S. Tiller

Partner | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Ramya S. Tiller is a corporate partner based in the New York office. Ms. Tiller is a member of the firm’s Finance and Special Situations Groups, and leads the firm’s Fund Finance Group in New York. Her practice covers a broad range of financings, including complex acquisition and leveraged transactions, fund finance transactions and other alternative capital transactions. She has extensive experience in borrower and lender-side fund finance and structured finance transactions, regularly representing clients in PE NAV facilities, secondaries and credit fund NAV facilities, subscription credit facilities, GP financings and collateralized fund obligations (CFOs). She also regularly represents insurance companies in multiple financings, including those related to reinsurance sidecars, and other transactions.

Ms. Tiller is ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Commercial Lending by The Legal 500 US (2023), where she has been described as an “ultimate professional,” and “highly rated.” She is also recognized as a Notable Practitioner in Banking by IFLR1000 (2022). Ms. Tiller is a frequent speaker on finance-related topics for the Practising Law Institute and routinely writes on fund finance topics.

Ms. Tiller joined Debevoise in 2007. She holds a B.A. LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, where she graduated third in her class in 2002. She received an LL.M. (Corporate Law) from New York University in 2005, where she was a Hauser scholar. Ms. Tiller is fluent in German.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Tiller worked for a leading Indian law firm in Mumbai, India. Between 2010 and 2012, she served as a member of the Finance group at an international law firm in Munich, Germany.

Mary Touchstone

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Market Evolution and Industry Perspectives

10:40 AM | 2022-02-17

Mary Touchstone

Partner and Head of Fund Finance Practice | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Mary Touchstone is a Partner and Head of the Fund Finance Practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Mary has helped to establish Simpson Thacher as a global leader in the representation of financial sponsors in fund financings. She is widely acknowledged as a leading lawyer in the subscription credit facility market and represents many of the world’s preeminent sponsors of private equity, real estate, energy, infrastructure, debt and other investment funds on the largest and most complex fund facilities.

Mary and her team regularly work on a wide variety of fund level financings, including secured and unsecured subscription (or capital call) facilities, with borrowing capacity for the fund as well as its parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and portfolio companies; fund guarantees and other credit support of portfolio level financings; NAV-based facilities and hybrid variations provided as aftercare facilities for funds that are later in their life cycles with less uncalled capital and more portfolio asset value; credit facilities for managed account vehicles; employee co-investment loan programs; management lines to investment advisers for working capital purposes; and liquidity financings for registered funds.

Jon Weiss

Wells Fargo

A Fireside Chat with Mike Arougheti

9:05 AM | 2022-02-17

Jon Weiss

Chief Executive Officer | Wells Fargo

Jon Weiss is chief executive officer of Wells Fargo's Corporate & Investment Bank and also serves on the company's Operating Committee. In addition, Jon oversees Wells Fargo’s international businesses and serves as president of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC.

Jon started his career with Wells Fargo in 2005 in the investment bank. In 2008, he became co-head of the Wells Fargo Investment Banking & Capital Markets division and in 2014 became president and head of Wells Fargo Securities. In 2017, he was named head of Wells Fargo’s Wealth & Investment Management division, a position he held until February 2020 when he was named to his current role.

Before joining Wells Fargo, Jon spent 25 years at J.P. Morgan Chase (and its predecessors) in various roles, including head of J.P. Morgan Chase's global financial sponsor business and head of investment banking in Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Jon's early career at Chemical Bank included roles in the retail industries and loan syndications and acquisition finance groups, and as assistant representative in Chemical Bank's Mexico City office.

Jon earned his B.A. in Romance Languages from Princeton University. A longtime champion of diversity and inclusion efforts, Jon currently serves as chair of the Corporate & Investment Bank Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Council. Jon also serves on the national advisory board of Youth, I.N.C., a New York City based non-profit; as a trustee emeritus of the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina; and as the President of the board of the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Storey Whalen

First Republic

Underwriting & Due Diligence Lessons Learned

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Storey Whalen

Director | First Republic

Storey Whalen has seven years of experience covering financing solutions for private equity and venture capital funds and firms. Her experience spans traditional capital call facilities, NAV-based lending, hybrid facilities, management company solutions and GP financing to firms ranging from established global managers to emerging domestic players. She is particularly passionate about supporting impact funds as well as women- and minority-lead firms. In her spare time, she has recently become involved with SheSyndicate and currently working to kick off the Capital Parity Project. Prior to joining First Republic in 2020, Storey worked in the Fund Financing group at National Australia Bank’s New York office. In a previous role, she was a financial analyst in the Boston market.

Richard Wheelahan III

Fund Finance Partners

Fund Manager Developments

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Richard Wheelahan III

Managing Director and Co-Founder | Fund Finance Partners

For over 15 years, Richard has been advising fund sponsors and lenders, in both an advisory and principal capacity. Prior to co-founding FFP, Richard was the General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and a Director of a $3 billion asset manager investing debt and equity in lower middle-market companies. During his ten-year tenure, Richard executed numerous capital markets initiatives on behalf of the firm’s investment vehicles and oversaw fund formation activity, developing comingled funds, SMA concepts, a NASDAQ-listed BDC, and joint ventures.

Richard also executed financings for the foregoing, including but not limited to subscription facilities, corporate and SPV revolvers, total return swaps, hybrid and NAV credit facilities, GP/asset manager lines of credit and securitizations of credit assets.

Richard’s breadth of asset management experience presents valuable, innovative expertise to fund sponsors dealing with fundraising, investor relations, compliance, financing, and portfolio management challenges and opportunities.

Richard began his career as an attorney with two large law firms, representing Fortune 500 companies, privately held entities and alternative asset managers with M&A and capital markets activities, and financial institutions in the execution of leveraged finance and securitization transactions.

Steve Willman

TPG

Portfolio Finance 2.0

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Steve Willman

Managing Director and the Treasurer | TPG

STEVE WILLMANN TPG Global, LLC Mr. Willmann is a Managing Director at TPG. He and his team are responsible for financing and capital markets activity of the firm and its funds, structured financing solutions for investment vehicles, rating agency relationships, foreign exchange risk management and hedging transactions, counterparty risk management, and general bank and lender relationship management. Prior to joining TPG in 2007, Mr. Willmann was a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he spent eight years in corporate and investment banking roles in New York, Dallas and Atlanta. Mr. Willmann graduated from Texas Tech University and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, and he currently serves on the Board of Trustees, and heads the finance committee, for Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dadong Yan

MassMutual

Portfolio Finance 2.0

1:50 PM | 2022-02-17

Dadong Yan

Head of Alternative Investment Solutions | MassMutual

Dadong is the Head of Alternative Investment Solutions at MassMutual. He is focused on bespoke investment opportunities and building strategic partnerships with alternative asset managers globally. Prior to joining MassMutual, Dadong was an investment professional with experience investing across the capital structure in both public and private asset classes at Blackstone, Altai Capital, and Coatue Management. Previously, he was an investment banking professional at J.P. Morgan in the Financial Institutions Group. Dadong graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business and LSA Honors College with a triple major in Business, Biophysics, and Honors German, where he was a Martin Haller Award Recipient.

Vassiliyan Zanev

Loyens & Loeff

Legal Update

11:50 AM | 2022-02-17

Vassiliyan Zanev

Partner | Loyens & Loeff

Vassiliyan Zanev co-chairs the Investment Management group of Loyens & Loeff and leads the fund finance practice of Loyens & Loeff in Luxembourg. He represents a variety of financial institutions, investment funds and corporations across a range of structured finance and lending transactions, with particular emphasis on fund finance, securitisation and real estate finance. Vassiliyan has extensive experience in the financing of Luxembourg alternative or regulated investment fund borrowers (including by way of capital call subscription credit facilities and permanent leverage solutions). Vassiliyan is a member of the EMEA Advisory Council of the Fund Finance Association.

Platinum Sponsors

Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 69 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 3,900 retail financial centers, approximately 15,000 ATMs (automated teller machines) and award-winning digital banking with approximately 57 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 4 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BAC).

www.bankofamerica.com

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

With over 225 years of legal experience, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP serves a diverse client base, including many of the world’s leading financial institutions, funds, Fortune 500 companies and other leading corporations, and individual private clients. With offices in New York, London, Charlotte and Washington, D.C., 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, securitisation, 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 regularly represents the agent, lead arrangers and lenders on subscription credit and capital call facilities to real estate, private equity and other investment funds.

Carey Olsen

Carey Olsen is a leading offshore law firm. Our fund finance specialists have extensive experience of advising on all types of lending to investment funds in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey.

Our lawyers regularly deal with subscription facilities, GP leverage, co-invest facilities as well as hybrid and NAV based arrangements, with loan sizes ranging from tens of millions to billions of dollars. We work alongside all of the major onshore law firms, accountancy firms and insolvency practitioners on corporate transactions and matters involving our jurisdictions.

Our advice is delivered by an approachable and experienced team of globally-minded lawyers who work in partnership with our clients to help them achieve their objectives. We have the expertise and resources to handle the most complex international transactions combined with a personal approach to business.

CIBC

CIBC is a leading North American financial institution with 13 million clients offering a full range of advice, solutions and services in the United States, Canada and around the world. CIBC Capital Markets provides best-in-class insight, advice, and execution across corporate banking, global markets, investment banking, and research to institutional, corporate, public and private sector clients across North America, Europe, and rest of the world. CIBC Innovation Banking serves the innovation economy by providing valuable access, capital and connections. The team and network help make today’s companies tomorrow’s market leaders. In the US, CIBC Bank USA provides a range of banking solutions, and CIBC Private Wealth offers investment management, wealth strategies and legacy planning.

City National Bank

City National Bank, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, is the largest bank headquartered in Los Angeles with $92 billion in assets as of July 31, 2024. Founded in 1954, City National provides personalized banking, investment and trust services in select markets including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Nashville, Atlanta, Delaware, Las Vegas, Washington D.C. and Miami.* In addition, the company and its investment affiliates manage or administer $101 billion in client investment assets. City National is dedicated to strengthening communities, and in 2023 alone, the company made more than $11 million in charitable contributions to nonprofits that support the communities it serves.

For more information about City National, visit the company’s website at cnb.com.

*City National Bank does business in Miami and the state of Florida as CN Bank.

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.

Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland & Ellis provides exceptional service to clients around the world in complex corporate and tax, litigation, intellectual property, restructuring and counseling matters. The Firm offers clients the unsurpassed resources of a large, integrated, multidisciplinary, global team of more than 3,500 attorneys across 20 cities in New York, Chicago, Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, Palo Alto, Paris, Riyadh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C.

Kirkland is a global leader in providing sophisticated advice to investment fund sponsors, institutional investors and other market participants in the alternative investment fund space. Kirkland’s strength lies in our unique ability to bring together best-in-class lawyers in all major markets across an extensive, cross-border private equity platform in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. With more than 570 dedicated Investment Funds attorneys, no other law firm matches the breadth, depth and scope of Kirkland’s experience in investment funds legal services. In addition to offering one of the largest and most active investment funds practices in the world, Kirkland’s platform also includes a dedicated fund finance bench that brings in-depth practical market knowledge to a wide range of financing structures. Since 2018, Kirkland has executed more than 1,000 fund financing transactions for over 400 clients, including more than 110 NAV facilities, representing approximately $248 billion in aggregate transaction value.

Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank Corporates & Institutional

Since 1765, we have been providing expert support and guidance to businesses of Britain. Supporting British businesses and the UK economy continues to be central to what we do.

Our Corporate and Institutional franchise maintains active relationships with two-thirds of the FTSE 350, supporting clients with annual turnover in excess of £100m.

With a well-established sector focus, we continue to drive our purpose outcomes by supporting goals such as regional development and building on our green financing initiatives to support more clients with their transition plans.

We support clients with their core banking solutions such as lending, deposits, transaction banking and risk management services. We also provide extensive expertise in capital markets, financial markets and private equity, all of which aim to meet the varying and often complex needs of our clients.

To find out more about Lloyds Bank Corporates and Institutional head over to our website:

Corporate Banking | Business Banking | Lloyds Bank

Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown, the founding sponsor of the Annual Subscription Facility and Fund Finance Symposium, is a global legal services organization advising clients across the Americas, Asia and Europe. Our presence in the world’s leading markets enables us to offer clients access to local market knowledge combined with global reach. Mayer Brown’s finance platform is based on the Firm’s global position and our balanced and integrated practice, which encompasses all the focused skill sets that our clients demand— from cross-border acquisition finance and international capital markets work to project finance, structured finance, and derivatives.

Mayer Brown is a market leader and has acted as Adviser to Lenders and Funds on over 500 subscription credit facilities in the last two years. The firm has relationships with every major US lender along with the majority of active lenders in the European and Asian markets. The team has led transactions funded by balance sheet lenders and commercial paper conduits as well as large syndicated facilities to accommodate various types of insurance companies. Its lawyers are experienced documenting the full suite of fund and portfolio-level financings including subscription-backed credit facilities, NAV facilities, private placements, equity commitment facilities, hybrid facilities, open-end fund facilities, management fee credit lines and an assortment of leveraged asset level transactions.

Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Morrison Foerster is a leading global law firm that transforms complexity into advantage for its clients. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, banks, consulting and accounting firms, and Fortune 100, technology, and life sciences companies. Highlighting the firm’s commitment to client service, leadership in market-changing deals and impact litigation, and values-based culture, Morrison Foerster has been named to The American Lawyer’s A-List for 20 of the ranking’s 21 years. Year after year, the firm receives significant recognition from Chambers and The Legal 500 across their various guides, including Global, USA, Asia Pacific, Europe, UK, Latin America, and FinTech Legal. Our lawyers passionately care about delivering legal excellence while living our values.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world’s leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo, MUFG has a global network that includes over 1,800 locations in more than 50 countries. With close to 150,000 employees and approximately 300 entities worldwide, MUFG provides access to commercial banking, trust banking, securities trading services, credit cards, consumer banking and finance, asset management, leasing, and other services. Through close partnerships with its operating companies, MUFG aims to “be the world’s most trusted financial group” by responding flexibly to customers’ financial needs, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE:MUFG) stock exchanges.

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.

Our teams of experts in about 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. Natixis CIB is committed to aligning its financing portfolio with a carbon neutrality path by 2050 while helping its clients reduce the environmental impact of their business.

As part of the Global Financial Services division of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group’s financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A+, Moody's: A1, Fitch: A+, R&I: A+).

RBC

Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 100,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 18 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. Additionally, we are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at rbc.com/community-social-impact.

Reed Smith

Reed Smith is a market-leading international law firm specializing in fund finance. With more than 1,700 lawyers across 31 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 Europe, the U.S., Asia and the UAE. 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 210 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.

Societe Generale

Societe Generale is a top tier European Bank with more than 126,000 employees serving about 25 million clients in 65 countries across the world. We have been supporting the development of our economies for 160 years, providing our corporate, institutional, and individual clients with a wide array of value-added advisory and financial solutions. Our long-lasting and trusted relationships with the clients, our cutting-edge expertise, our unique innovation, our ESG capabilities and leading franchises are part of our DNA and serve our most essential objective - to deliver sustainable value creation for all our stakeholders.

The Group runs three complementary sets of businesses, embedding ESG offerings for all its clients:

French Retail, Private Banking and Insurance, with leading retail bank SG and insurance franchise, premium private banking services, and the leading digital bank BoursoBank.

Global Banking and Investor Solutions, a top tier wholesale bank offering tailored-made solutions with distinctive global leadership in equity derivatives, structured finance and ESG.
Mobility, International Retail Banking and Financial Services, comprising well-established universal banks (in Czech Republic, Romania and several African countries), Ayvens (the new ALD I LeasePlan brand), a global player in sustainable mobility, as well as specialized financing activities.

Committed to building together with its clients a better and sustainable future, Societe Generale aims to be a leading partner in the environmental transition and sustainability overall. The Group is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe).

For more information, visit societegenerale.com.

UBS

UBS Group AG is a multinational financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. It maintains a presence in all major financial centers as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world.

UBS Global Wealth Management provides comprehensive advice, solutions, and services to wealthy families and individuals. Its fully integrated set of capabilities include wealth planning, investment management, capital markets, banking, lending, institutional, and corporate financial advice.

UBS Investment Bank provides corporate, institutional and wealth management clients with expert advice, innovative solutions, execution, and comprehensive access to international capital markets.

Working together, UBS Global Wealth Management and the UBS Investment Bank provide custom solutions and best-in-class service to the world’s most established financial sponsors.

http://www.ubs.com

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.

Gold Sponsors

17Capital

17Capital is a private credit manager, specializing in NAV finance for the private equity industry. It provides non-dilutive capital to high-quality private equity management companies, funds, and institutional investors as part of their toolkit for value creation and portfolio management.

Founded in 2008, 17Capital has completed over 100 investments and 50 exits, deploying more than $13 billion since inception. 17Capital has raised $13 billion across six successive funds and mandates. . In July 2022, 17Capital announced the completion of Oaktree’s acquisition of a majority interest in 17Capital. The partnership will give 17Capital access to Oaktree’s deep global network. Following the closing of the transaction, 17Capital, will continue to operate as an independent business, with its own product offerings and investment, marketing, and support teams.

abrdn

abrdn operates in over 24 locations worldwide and manages £366.7 billion of assets for our clients. By offering investment expertise across all key asset classes, regions and markets, we help our clients to capture investment potential wherever it arises. We combine fundamental research, thematic thinking, sustainable best practice and extensive on-the-ground analysis. This helps us to find the most future-fit investment opportunities, globally. We offer clients access to all major areas of private credit in Europe, including commercial real estate debt, infrastructure debt, corporate private placement debt, direct (mid-market) lending and syndicated loans. We manage close to £11 billion of capital across these strategies.

BNY Mellon

BNY is a global financial services company that helps make money work for the world – managing it, moving it and keeping it safe. For 240 years BNY has partnered alongside clients, putting its expertise and platforms to work to help them achieve their ambitions. Today BNY helps over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly all the top 100 banks globally to access the money they need. BNY supports governments in funding local projects and works with over 90% of the top 100 pension plans to safeguard investments for millions of individuals, and so much more. As of September 30, 2024, BNY oversees $52.1 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $2.1 trillion in assets under management.

Capital One

Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital One, N.A., and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., had $306.1 billion in deposits and $423.4 billion in total assets as of June 30, 2021. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Capital One, N.A. has branches located primarily in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "COF" and is included in the S&P 100 index.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)

Connecting local and international opportunities to build a brighter Australia.

As one of Australia’s most recognised brands, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is a leading provider of personal banking, business and institutional banking and share broking services in Australia. CBA has a strong balance sheet, with total assets exceeding $A1,091.65 Billion (as at 30 June 2021).

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and with offices in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, CBA is strategically positioned to work with clients across global markets, while connecting non-Australian clients to opportunities both in Australia and around the world. As custodian of Australia’s largest customer transactional data set, CBA can connect global clients to Australian opportunities backed by data-generated insights. Our scale enables us to unlock alternative pools of liquidity and capital, with strong executional capabilities complemented by a network of corporate referrals and diverse international expertise.

The Institutional Banking & Markets division offers a full range of capital raising solutions and financial markets capabilities, as well as transactional and risk management products and services.

Conyers

Conyers is a leading international law firm with a broad client base including global financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies and asset managers. The Firm advises on Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law, from offices in those jurisdictions and in the key financial centres of Hong Kong, London and Singapore.

Conyers’ market-leading fund finance team in the Cayman Islands is dedicated to advising the world’s leading banks and financial institutions on all aspects of fund finance transactions involving Cayman parties including subscription-based, NAV and hybrid transactions. With a proven track record of acting for the leading players in the market we are ideally placed to assist you in structuring and completing complex transactions in a timely and efficient manner.

For more information, click here: https://www.conyers.com/legal-services/finance/fund-finance/

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated entities) is an elite global law firm with world-class practices across the board. Industry-leading companies and global financial institutions know they can rely on us for their most challenging legal and business matters. The firm’s top-flight capabilities are grounded in a distinguished history of 170 years, and our global, forward-looking focus is supported by 10 offices strategically located in the world’s key financial centers and political capitals. Approximately 1,000 lawyers collaborate seamlessly across practice groups and geographies to provide clients with exceptional service, sophisticated advice and creative, practical solutions. Visit davispolk.com.

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.

Fund Finance Partners

Fund Finance Partners (“FFP”) is led by a team of finance and asset management professionals dedicated to the innovation and growth of debt capital solutions for private and public fund sponsors. Our partners have overseen numerous types of fund finance products, spanning various fund sponsors, asset managers, investors, investment strategies, lenders and types of collateral. Whether it's the most complex of hybrid facilities, the simplest subscription financings, or debt capital for the fund sponsor's platform, FFP has the track record and network to implement these solutions, start to finish. Our streamlined approach saves time and money for all parties, allowing fund sponsors to focus on their core investment strategies and asset management goals. For more information, visit fundfinancepartners.com or email us at info@fundfinancepartners.com.

Katten

Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm’s core areas of practice include private credit, corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals. For more information, visit katten.com.

Latham & Watkins LLP

The Latham fund finance team represents private debt and private equity firms, as well as financial institutions, in structuring and executing a wide range of subscription credit facilities and other fund-level financings in a variety of industries. We work in tandem with colleagues across Latham practices and global offices to develop innovative fund-level financing structures that account for the full spectrum of tax, finance, and regulatory issues that sponsors and investors face.

Given our experience with a wide variety of fund-level financing structures, we routinely advise clients on everything from capital call facilities, NAV financings, ESG-linked facilities, and general partner facilities, to multi-currency and multi-jurisdictional financings, as well as cash-flow and asset-based loans. Our fund finance team leverages deep experience and relationships across private capital, financial institutions, and the investment funds industries to help clients navigate complex transactions at the forefront of the market.

We work seamlessly with the Latham global corporate, finance, investment funds, and tax teams to find solutions that allow clients to achieve their most critical commercial objectives.

Loeb & Loeb

Loeb & Loeb is a premier law firm with more than 450 lawyers across eight offices in the United States and Asia. Loeb lawyers are at the forefront of market developments and events that have the potential to impact our clients. We advise financial institutions lending to private equity and other investment funds at all stages, whether prior to initial investor closing or after the investment period has ended, and for funds that vary widely in structure, focus and goals. We also help market participants (including syndication agents, lenders, administrative agents and others) in structuring, negotiating and implementing subscription or capital call facilities, net asset value-based facilities and hybrid facilities. Loeb lawyers provide clients in the United States and across the globe with in-depth market knowledge, practical and innovative solutions, and effective representation to get their deals done and to meet their goals. Connect with us and experience the difference.

Loyens & Loeff

Loyens & Loeff is a leading law firm with integrated legal and tax practices. We handle all matters relating to investment funds, banking, corporate, private equity, real estate and tax law. Our offices in the Benelux and Switzerland mainly represent banks, financial institutions, investment funds and corporations, operating internationally.

The fund finance team of Loyens & Loeff advises in relation to the structuring of fund finance transactions and the related security packages. Relying on our extensive experience in the structuring of capital call subscription credit facilities, permanent leverage facilities and GP facilities, we handle transactions involving alternative or regulated investment fund borrowers of all types, sizes and asset classes. Major lenders, investment fund managers, sponsors and market players in both the US and European markets count on our expertise regarding fund finance transactions. Our dedicated fund finance team has successfully acted for the most active international banks, arrangers, lenders and fund managers in these markets.

Maples Group

The Maples Group, through its leading international legal services firms, advises global financial, institutional, business and private clients on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg, and is an independent provider of fiduciary, fund services, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services. Combining the Maples Group’s leading finance and investment funds capability, the Group’s Fund Finance team has widespread experience in advising on all aspects of fund finance and related security structures for both lenders and borrowers.

The Maples Group distinguishes itself with a client-focused approach, providing solutions tailored to their specific needs. Its global network of lawyers and industry professionals are strategically located in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East to ensure that clients gain immediate access to expert advice and bespoke support, within convenient time zones.

Visit www.maples.com for more information about our global fund finance team and our legal and fiduciary services.

Mourant

Our cross-practice fund finance team advises open-ended and closed-ended funds established in the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Jersey, Guernsey and Luxembourg, as well as bank and non-bank lenders to those funds.

We regularly advise on the structuring and implementation of subscription credit lines, NAV facilities (including hybrid arrangements), GP loans and other fund level leverage and related security arrangements. We often do so in conjunction with leading law firms onshore.

Our ‘one firm’ approach means that working together with clients we deliver seamless, objective and commercially grounded advice on the comparative advantages and disadvantages of the leading offshore fund jurisdictions. Our team exercises true commercial judgment in delivering advice often going the extra mile, with a personal approach, and forming genuine partnerships with our clients and their advisers. Clients benefit from our teams working together and making things happen in this way, resulting in deals being delivered on time and within budget.

Visit www.mourant.com to find out more.

National Australia Bank (NAB)

National Australia Bank (NAB) is a leading Australian bank. Our global Corporate and Institutional Bank serves Financial Institutions and Corporates through our offices in Australia, Asia the US and Europe. The New York based team provide full relationship services, originating and executing product solutions with a focus on infrastructure, sustainability and investor solutions. We work with some of the leading participants in the infrastructure sector – leading deals across all market segments including renewables, energy, resources, transport and commodities – and coordinate closely across fund and asset level exposures. We have a dedicated Funds business which operates globally through US, UK, Asia and Australia which provides banking and markets solutions for asset managers and financial sponsors. We are an agent for subscription financing and credit facilities for private and publicly listed funds.

Ogier

Recommended as a top-tier firm by Legal 500, Ogier has advised on fund finance since the inception of the funds industry, regularly acting for banks, financial institutions, funds and sponsors on a full range of fund finance transactions. The firm's specialists are highly accomplished and many of its lawyers have been actively involved in drafting key legislation that underpins the fund structures in BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg, making Ogier the only firm to advise on those six laws. The diverse nature of Ogier's practice provides its team with valuable insight and understanding of the funds market and the legal and commercial issues relevant to borrowers and lenders alike. With a growing team of more than 1,000 people across 12 of the world's most distinguished international finance centres, Ogier's 'hands-on' partner-led teams ensure a consistent approach, while providing responsive and practical advice.

Visit www.ogier.com to read more about Ogier's fund finance offering and see the global team.

PJT Partners Inc.

PJT Partners Inc. (“PJT”) is a global advisory-focused investment bank. Our team delivers a wide array of strategic advisory, secondary advisory, shareholder and corporate governance advisory, restructuring and reorganization and fund placement services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors and governments. Our Private Capital Solutions team provides tailored advice to clients seeking to address asset, fund and portfolio liquidity considerations across a wide array of LP and GP-led transactions. Our practice is one of the most experienced teams in the industry, and has been involved in some of the largest, most complex transactions since the team’s founding in 2008. Our specialized team focuses on delivering independent advisory and execution services to financial sponsors and institutional investors across a broad spectrum of strategic transactions including Financial Sponsor, Institutional Investor, and Structured Liquidity Solutions.

Proskauer

Proskauer’s fund finance practice represents private funds, regulated investment companies, fund investors and lenders on a full range of financing transactions in the U.S. and the U.K. Our team provides innovative solutions at all levels of the capital structure, on matters involving secured and unsecured subscription/capital call facilities, NAV facilities, secondaries acquisitions, and GP, management and co-investment facilities. We have helped clients with leveraged secondary transactions for some of the world’s largest secondary funds, warehouse facilities for middle market lending joint ventures, NAV facilities backed by life insurance policies and hybrid facilities. We also employ a network of seasoned professionals across the firm, enabling us to understand any fund vehicle and appreciate the deal points that concern all parties.

Ropes & Gray

Ropes & Gray, a preeminent, global law firm, has been ranked in the top-three on The American Lawyer's prestigious "A-List" for eight years and is ranked #1 on Law.com International's "A-List" in the U.K.—rankings that honor the "Best of the Best" firms. The firm has approximately 1,500 lawyers and legal professionals serving clients in major centers of business, finance, technology, and government in Boston, Chicago, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. The firm has consistently been recognized for its leading practices in many areas, including asset management, private equity, M&A, finance, real estate, tax, antitrust, life sciences, health care, intellectual property, litigation & enforcement, privacy & cybersecurity, and business restructuring.

Scotiabank

Scotiabank’s vision is to be our clients’ most trusted financial partner, to deliver sustainable, profitable growth and maximize total shareholder return. Guided by our purpose: "for every future," we help our clients, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With assets of approximately $1.4 trillion (as at July 31, 2024), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BNS) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BNS).

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) conducts the Bank’s wholesale banking and capital markets business with corporate, government and institutional investor clients. GBM is a full-service wholesale bank and investment dealer in Canada and Mexico and offers a range of products and services in the U.S., Latin America and in select markets in Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit https://www.gbm.scotiabank.com/en.html.

SuMi TRUST

Established in 1925, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (“SuMi Trust”) is the largest Japanese trust bank, providing a wide range of banking and fiduciary services to its customers. In its domestic Japanese market, SuMi Trust business covers asset management, corporate and structured financing, real estate brokerage, mortgage loan and retail banking. In international market, SuMi Trust has branches in major global financial centers, where it is primarily focused on banking activity – most notably corporate and structured finance. SuMi Trust is well known not only for working openly and collaboratively with its banking clients, but also for seeking opportunities to introduce its Japanese investor partners enhanced investment solutions in line with its trust bank heritage.

Silver Sponsors

Arthur Cox LLP

Arthur Cox LLP is one of Ireland’s leading law firms. We have been at the forefront of developments in the legal landscape here for over 100 years, establishing one of the largest and most innovative law firms in the country – a firm that stands at the front of the industry. We are an “all-island” firm with offices in Dublin and Belfast. We also have offices in London, New York, and San Francisco. Our practice encompasses all aspects of corporate and business law.

With 600 legal staff and a total headcount of 900, we provide a comprehensive service to an international client base ranging from multinational organisations, banks, and financial institutions and established global leaders to government agencies and new players in emerging industry sectors.

Our story has been defined by our progressive outlook. For over 100 years, we have led the way in the legal field in Ireland, and have continuously worked to strive towards our goals. For our clients, we work to deliver the best service and support. With an independent, entrepreneurial spirit of innovation leading the way.

Bank of China Sydney Branch

As China’s most globalised bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions, Bank of China Limited(“BOC”) has over 306,931 employees in the Chinese mainland as well as 64 countries and regions, with total assets over $4.5 trillion as of the end of year 2023. BOC has a well-established global service network and an integrated financial service system based on the pillars of its corporate banking, personal banking, financial markets and other commercial banking business, which covers investment banking, direct investment, securities, insurance, funds, aircraft leasing, asset management, financial technology, financing leasing and other areas. In addition, BOCHK and the Macau Branch serve as local note-issuing banks in their respective markets. The primary centres of fund financing in Asia are Sydney, Singapore, Macau and Hong Kong.

China Merchants Bank

Founded in 1987, the Company is headquartered in Shenzhen, China. The Company mainly focuses on the market in China with branches primarily covering major cities in the Chinese mainland, as well as international financial centres such as Hong Kong of China, New York, London, Singapore, Luxembourg and Sydney. The Company was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in April 2002 and the SEHK in September 2006.

In July 2023, the Company received the award of “Best Bank in China” at the “2023 Awards for Excellence” ceremony staged by Euromoney (UK) for the fifth consecutive year, marking the first “5-year championship streak” in its awarding history, and was also the only Chinese bank to receive the “Awards for Excellence” in that year.
In July 2023, the Company ranked 11th on the list of “Top 1,000 World Banks 2023” released by The Banker (UK), ranking first in the best performing Chinese banks for three consecutive years.
The list of Fortune Global 500 was officially released in August 2023, on which the Company ranked 179th and making the list for 12 consecutive years.
In June 2023, the US-based Institutional Investor magazine released the results of the “2023 All-Asia Executive Team”, recognising the Company as the bank with the highest overall ranking and the most awards in the Asian region. The Company won several awards, including “Best Board of Directors”, “Asia’s Most Respected Company”, “Best IR Company” and “Best ESG Company”.

East West Bank

East West Bank provides financial services that help customers reach further and connect to new opportunities. East West Bancorp, Inc. is a public company (NASDAQ: “EWBC”) with total assets of $72.5B. The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, East West Bank, is the largest independent bank headquartered in Southern California. EWB Private Equity, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, is the Bank’s largest industry specialty group, with in-depth knowledge of the fund finance market. The Private Equity Group provides creatively designed credit solutions to meet the fund financing needs of a wide range of asset management firms, funds and partnerships. We support clients at all stages of the investment lifecycle with capital call lines and NAV facilities, as well as hybrid facilities which blend the two. We provide these lines to traditional funds, SMAs and high net worth investor feeder funds. For management companies and general partners, we craft facilities supported by management fees and general partner stakes to provide liquidity and investable capital.

Goodwin

At Goodwin, we partner with our clients to practice law with integrity, ingenuity, agility, and ambition. Our 2,000+ lawyers across Europe, the United States and Asia excel at fund formation, complex transactions, high-stakes litigation and world-class advisory services in the private equity, technology, life sciences, real estate, and financial industries. In the fund finance space, we represent sponsors, lenders and other market participants on management financings, subscription lines, NAV facilities, secondaries transactions and an array of other innovative liquidity solutions. The firm’s unique combination of deep experience serving both the innovators and the investors in a rapidly-changing, technology-driven economy sets Goodwin apart. To learn more, visit, us at www.goodwinlaw.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Intertrust Law

Intertrust Law is a full-service commercial Cayman Islands law firm offering end-to-end Cayman Islands legal services in the practice areas of banking and finance, corporate, investment funds, fund finance, private client, regulatory, structured finance and litigation/dispute resolution. Intertrust Law is separately owned and managed independently from Intertrust Group. In an increasingly complex legal and regulatory environment, we offer technology-driven, competitively priced Cayman Islands legal advice, coupled with end-to-end administrative knowledge and services, enhancing our clients’ speed to market and accelerating their competitive advantage. As macro-economic pressures evolve, Intertrust Law is positioned to proactively anticipate clients’ needs, offering a long-term partnership with a full-service capability.

Mizuho Americas

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 17th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion, according to S&P Global 2024. Mizuho’s 65,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 36 countries and 850 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.

Mizuho is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody, and research to corporate, private equity, and institutional clients. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring, and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe, and Asia. Mizuho employs approximately 3,500 professionals, for more information visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.

Northern Trust

Northern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking to corporations, institutions, affluent families and individuals. Founded in Chicago in 1889, Northern Trust has a global presence with offices in 21 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., and across 23 locations in Canada, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. As of December 31, 2021, Northern Trust had assets under custody/administration of $16.2 trillion, and assets under management of $1.6 trillion. For more than 130 years, Northern Trust has earned distinction as an industry leader for exceptional service, financial expertise, integrity and innovation. Northern Trust has a team of specialized professionals servicing private equity firms through the delivery of a unique mix of corporate banking, fund administration and wealth management solutions. Northern Trust’s highly focused strategy and long-term commitment to the private equity market has been a major driver of the success of our sponsor finance business.

Banc of California

Banc of California, Inc. (NYSE: BANC) is a bank holding company headquartered in Los Angeles with one wholly-owned banking subsidiary, Banc of California (the “bank”). Banc of California is one of the nation’s premier relationship-based business banks focused on providing banking and treasury management services to small-, middle-market, and venture-backed businesses. Banc of California offers a broad range of loan and deposit products and services through more than 70 full-service branches throughout California and in Denver, Colorado, and Durham, North Carolina, as well as full-stack payment processing solutions through its subsidiary, Deepstack Technologies. Banc of California also serves the Community Association Management industry nationwide with its technology-forward platform SmartStreet™. The bank is committed to its local communities by supporting organizations that provide financial literacy and job training, small business support, affordable housing, and more. For more information, please visit us at www.bancofcal.com

Seward & Kissel LLP

Seward & Kissel, founded in 1890, is a leading U.S. law firm with an international reputation for excellence. We have offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Our practice primarily focuses on corporate and litigation work for clients seeking legal expertise in the financial services, corporate finance and capital markets areas. The Firm is particularly well known for its representation of major commercial banks, investment banking firms, investment advisers and related investment funds (including mutual, hedge and private equity funds), broker-dealers, institutional investors and transportation companies (particularly in the shipping area).

The Firm’s attorneys are very experienced and highly regarded in their respective practice areas. Many have been with the Firm for most, if not all, of their legal careers. Our focus and expertise, combined with the Firm’s stability, have enabled us to create a work culture that is dedicated to professional excellence and sound judgment, and that is committed to providing our clients with effective, high quality, hands-on legal service.

Simmons & Simmons LLP

Collaborative, agile and partner-led: that’s Simmons & Simmons. A law firm that challenges, creates new possibilities and offers opinion not just option. A law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, not for you.

We focus on four highly regulated sectors using our specialist skills to understand your business, and the forces at play around it. All grounded in exceptional knowledge of the legal detail. This is how we consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges.

Our International Funds Finance practice is no exception. Operating across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia, we’re recognised for both technical excellence and outstanding commerciality. The team advises banks, hedge fund managers, private equity funds, real estate funds and investment fund managers in connection with a wide range of financings involving many different fund asset classes. As both the Asset Management/ Investment Funds and Financial Institutions sectors are key areas of focus for our firm, whether we are acting for a lender or a borrower, we are able to deliver an efficient and high calibre service.

State Street

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $46.8 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $4.7 trillion* in assets under management as of September 30, 2024, State Street operates globally in more than 100 geographic markets and employs approximately 53,000 worldwide. For more information, visit State Street's website at www.statestreet.com.

* Assets under management as of September 30, 2024 includes approximately $83 billion of assets with respect to SPDR® products for which State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors, LLC (SSGA FD) acts solely as the marketing agent. SSGA FD and State Street Global Advisors are affiliated.

Stifel Bank

With the legacy of Stifel, a leading Wealth Management and Investment Banking firm established in St. Louis in 1890, Stifel Bank provides growth and middle-market businesses and their owners a full range of lending, deposit, treasury, and private banking services. We are known for our superior customer service, flexibility, and entrepreneurial approach to banking.

Stifel Fund Banking offers a one-stop solution for the credit and treasury needs of private fund managers across all alternative asset classes. We focus on simple yet flexible subscription credit facilities, along with other products designed to optimize fund performance and streamline operations. The Fund Banking team partners closely with Stifel’s Investment Bank and other lending verticals to provide fund managers full coverage at both the fund and portfolio-level, all under one roof.

Texas Capital Bank

Texas Capital is the collective brand name for Texas Capital Bank (“TCB”) and its separate, non-bank affiliates and wholly-owned subsidiaries. Texas Capital is the premier full-service financial services firm headquartered in Texas delivering customized solutions to businesses, entrepreneurs and individual customers. Since our founding more than 25 years ago, Texas Capital has undergone an enterprise-wide transformation designed to provide our clients with the widest possible range of differentiated products and services, on parity with those of the largest Wall Street banks. With offices in Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, and a network of clients across the country, Texas Capital offers industry-leading expertise, global reach and a uniquely Texan approach to best serve our clients. Texas Capital is also committed to partnering with our local communities, investing our time, resources and capital in Texas charities and communities through the Texas Capital Foundation. For more information, please visit www.texascapital.com.

Trident Trust

Founded in 1978, Trident Trust is a leading independent provider of fund administration, corporate and trust services, employing over 900 staff across a global footprint that spans five continents. Our experienced professional team provides a comprehensive range of services specifically geared to the needs of hedge fund, cryptocurrency, private equity, venture capital and real estate fund managers, including all aspects of accounting, transfer agency and investor communication, as well as international SPV formation. Our clients include more than 500 funds worldwide with AUM exceeding $40bn, ranging from multi-billion dollar funds to mid-market and next-generation managers. Our team has forged a hard-earned reputation for providing a highly responsive personal service, backed by uncompromising attention to detail and our commitment to client service has been recognized by numerous industry accolades, including multiple Fund Administrator of the Year awards.

Validus

Validus is a leading independent financial services firm, providing market risk management, fund finance advisory and technology solutions to the alternative investment industry. Our clients have more than $2 trillion in combined assets under management.

Since 2010 our core expertise has been to deliver effective and efficient risk management solutions for alternative investment firms, mitigating exposures such as foreign currency or interest rates. Our award winning service also includes turnkey solutions to the operational challenge of implementing, managing and monitoring hedging programmes, through dedicated resources and proprietary technology.

We also provide expert advice and resources to sponsors seeking to establish, refinance and re-negotiate fund finance facilities. Our unique position in the industry enables us to help clients navigate and benchmark the market, design and evaluate optimal structures, and negotiate terms to best meet their requirements.

Bronze Sponsors

Brickfield Recruitment

Brickfield Fund Finance Recruitment is the only talent acquisition service dedicated to the global fund finance sector. Our in-depth knowledge of the fund finance market, complimented by a diligent and discreet personal approach, gives us an unparalleled ability to bring the right people together.

Founded in 2018, Brickfield plays a key role in facilitating moves at all levels within the fund finance industry, as well as bringing brand new talent into the industry to assure its long-term capacity for growth.

Brickfield also provides strategic counsel to banks, law firms, funds and alternative lenders facing challenges in attracting high quality candidates within this competitive recruitment market, advising on fund finance industry specifics and key guidance on issues such as base salary expectations, bonus benchmarking and brand reputation.

Brickfield is the exclusive publisher of the Fund Finance Bankers Compensation Report and the Working Guide to Fund Finance, a comprehensive “how-to” guide to European and offshore fund finance.

www.brickfieldrecruitment.com

Cambridge Wilkinson

Cambridge Wilkinson is a leading global investment bank with the speed, connections, and the confidence to get transactions done. With a focus on middle market companies, we arrange debt and equity capital raises from $25 million to $5 billion and advise on mergers and acquisitions. In addition, we also provide fund finance solutions with flexible and scalable NAV facilities, leverage facilities and GP financings for private equity funds and alternative credit funds. We bring deep experience working with specialty finance institutions, real estate entities, funds as well as businesses spanning a variety of other industries. We offer unique access to a broad network of capital sources including large family offices, credit funds, banks, non-bank credit groups, insurance companies, private equity, sovereigns, and endowments.

Cathay Bank

Cathay Bank is a commercial bank founded in Los Angeles in 1962. We build long-term relationships, looking ahead to future possibilities and focusing on putting people and companies on paths to success. Our flexible approach allows us to respond quickly to our customers and the rapidly changing marketplace. We’re invested in doing all we can for our customers by offering a wide range of financial services through nine states in the U.S. as well as a branch in Hong Kong and representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei. Cathay Bank is a subsidiary of Cathay General Bancorp (Nasdaq: CATY).

To engage with our Funds Finance team, contact Peter Thompson, SVP & Manager, Cathay Bank - Fund Finance Group, at peter.thompson@cathaybank.com, 626-279-3701.

DBS Bank Ltd

DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia with a presence in 19 markets. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS is in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The bank's "AA-" and "Aa1" credit ratings are among the highest in the world.

Recognised for its global leadership, DBS has been named “World’s Best Bank” by Global Finance, “World’s Best Bank” by Euromoney and “Global Bank of the Year” by The Banker. The bank is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, having been named “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney and the world’s “Most Innovative in Digital Banking” by The Banker. In addition, DBS has been accorded the “Safest Bank in Asia“ award by Global Finance for 15 consecutive years from 2009 to 2023.

DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking. As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS understands the intricacies of doing business in the region’s most dynamic markets.

DBS is committed to building lasting relationships with customers, as it banks the Asian way. Through the DBS Foundation, the bank creates impact beyond banking by supporting businesses for impact: enterprises with a double bottom-line of profit and social and/or environmental impact. DBS Foundation also gives back to society in various ways, including equipping underserved communities with future-ready skills and helping them to build food resilience.

With its extensive network of operations in Asia and emphasis on engaging and empowering its staff, DBS presents exciting career opportunities. For more information, please visit www.dbs.com.

Deutsche Bank Wealth Management

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. The bank focuses on its strengths in a Corporate Bank newly created in 2019, a leading Private Bank, a focused investment bank and in asset management. Deutsche Bank provides financial services to companies, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses and private individuals. The Investment Bank focuses on its traditional strengths in financing, advisory, fixed income and currencies.

Deutsche Bank is an active participant in the fund finance market and has arranged or supported as a member of a wider syndicate a variety of transactions. Deutsche Bank is well-placed as a reliable funding partner particularly on bespoke financing solutions and can help the sponsors achieve a variety of objectives through a wide product suite. Deutsche Bank is a global financial services provider that takes a holistic view of sponsor client relationships and can cater to multiple objectives, asset types and structures. Deutsche Bank’s multi-currency and jurisdictional solutions are especially advantageous for EU and US based sponsors seeking to execute on European opportunities or opportunistic add-on acquisitions to platform/portfolio companies and clients are provided with connectivity to Deutsche Bank’s overall platform, when desired. Deutsche bank’s structuring capabilities are best in class with customizable solutions aimed at achieving goals prescribed by the sponsor. Deutsche Bank has financing capabilities across a broad spectrum of assets, matching the breadth of Deutsche Bank Structured Finance platform.

Foley Hoag LLP

Foley Hoag is committed to helping our clients achieve their desired results by excelling in the time-honored practices of the legal profession and seizing on new ways to continuously improve our performance and service level. Since 1943, Foley Hoag has represented public and private clients in a wide range of disputes and transactions around the world. Our debt finance practice provides a full range of services to both borrowers and lenders in commercial loan transactions and debt offerings. We have established a lengthy record of success in industries such as life sciences, healthcare, technology, energy/renewables, investment management and professional services. From our offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., New York, and Paris, we provide creative, strategic legal advice tailored to clients’ unique goals, and our lawyers share a common emphasis on superior client service. For more information on the firm, visit: www.foleyhoag.com.

Harneys

Harneys is a leading international offshore legal and fiduciary services firm with entrepreneurial thinking. We offer the full range of transactional, litigation and restructuring advice on British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Bermuda, Anguilla and Jersey* law, alongside our associated corporate and private wealth business which provides the full complement of fiduciary services.

Harneys has played in key role in the offshore finance industry since its inception. Our clients include almost every significant bank and financial institution in the world as well as listed and private companies. Harneys have advised on a wide range of offshore financing transactions including fund finance, leveraged finance, margin lending, acquisition finance, pre-IPO finance, take-private transactions, bond issuances, convertible instruments, derivative transactions, property finance and syndicated lending.

*Jersey legal services are provided through a referral arrangement with Harneys (Jersey) which is an independently owned and controlled Jersey law firm.

Hedgewood Capital Partners

Hedgewood Capital Partners is a New York headquartered fund finance advisory firm. Hedgewood serves a wide range of borrowers across the private capital space including funds, GPs and LPs, in structuring financing transactions including capital call lines, NAV based debt facilities and preferred equity, GP and management company facilities and LP stake financing. Hedgewood runs a competitive lender sourcing process on behalf of its clients by engaging with its wide network of traditional bank and non-bank lenders, leads negotiations on behalf of clients, drives efficient execution of transactions and provides a comprehensive post-sales service. The firm’s client base extends across the private capital funds space in Europe and the Americas including Private Equity, Private Debt, Hedge Funds and Real Assets.

ICBC New York Branch

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is one of the world’s largest banks and topped the list of largest public companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list in 2023. Leveraging the expertise of ICBC group's industry leading banking teams and global distribution network, ICBC New York Branch's fund finance practice represents fund sponsors and asset managers on a wide array of fund-related financing and loan transactions. Our fund finance team has extensive experience in, amongst other things, bridge/subscription finance facilities, BDC finance, umbrella facilities, financing of asset management companies, and other bespoke credit facilities and liquidity solutions for various entities across the broader private equity business structure. The team also works hand in hand with clients to open the doors to certain opportunities such as exploring private equity businesses in Asian market, and other ancillary products, including FX, derivatives, and DCM that match clients' individual needs.

Matheson

Matheson services the legal needs of internationally-focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland. Our clients include over half of the world’s 50 largest banks, 7 of the world’s 10 largest asset managers, 7 of the top 10 global technology brands and we have advised the majority of the Fortune 100 companies. Our Finance and Capital Markets team consists of more than 50 lawyers and advises financial institutions and corporations involved in arranging and executing all forms of finance and capital markets transactions in Ireland. We act for all of the major Irish banks and financial institutions, corporate borrowers and many of the world's leading international banks, investment managers and investment funds, securities and derivatives trading houses, broker dealers, insurance companies, alternative finance providers, supranational organisations, rating agencies, trustees and other financial services firms in relation to their lending, borrowing, finance and capital markets transactions and arrangements.

S&P Global Ratings

S&P Global Ratings is the world's leading provider of independent credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence. We have more than 1 million credit ratings outstanding on government, corporate, financial sector and structured finance entities and securities. We offer an independent view of the market built on a unique combination of broad perspective and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain independent information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings.

Sidley Austin LLP

Sidley is an elite global law firm powered by lawyers who practice at the highest level of the profession. Backed by 158 years of experience, we deliver superior service to a high-caliber group of market-leading clients worldwide, while placing a premium on collaboration and diversity. Our firm boasts a roster of 2,300 lawyers who wield deep experience in transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters spanning over 50 legal disciplines and industries.

Our fund finance practice is a team of highly skilled and dedicated practitioners at the forefront of the rapidly expanding fund finance market. With vast experience in all types of fund financing products we build and maintain deep relationships with fund, borrower, and lender side clients. We have experience with every major investment fund strategy and asset class, including many esoteric asset classes, and we represent our clients in all aspects of the structuring, negotiation, administration, restructuring, and termination of fund finance transactions. With 21 offices situated in major commercial and financial capitals around the world, our lawyers possess the cultural awareness and legal acumen needed to advise clients in today’s global economy.

We are nationally recognized by several industry publications, including:

Tier 1 national ranking in Banking and Finance Law

U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” (2010 – 2024)

Consistently recognized as a leading firm for Banking and Finance

Chambers USA (2007 – 2024)

Travers Thorp Alberga

Travers Thorp Alberga is a boutique Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law firm comprised only of the most experienced lawyers from both jurisdictions and modelled for the post-financial crisis environment. We specialize in highly technical structuring involving complex securities and regulatory issues. Our partners provide incisive and highly effective advice to the highest standard on all types of offshore entities including hedge funds, private equity, corporate and partnership vehicles, asset and structured finance, cryptocurrencies, ICOs/IEOs/STOs, capital markets, general corporate and commercial matters and private client. We advise across a broad- range of fund finance products with particular emphasis on subscription financing, asset backed financing (NAV facilities), hybrid, GP support and co-invest facilities including financings via umbrella facilities and separately managed accounts. We are highly experienced in financing diverse investments, including real estate, distressed assets, loan portfolios and acquisition of assets located in emerging markets. We advise from our offices in Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, London, New Zealand and Australia.

Troutman Pepper

Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys in 23 U.S. cities. We combine the resources of a large firm with the personal engagement of a trusted adviser. Clients navigating sophisticated finance matters trust our attorneys to proactively assess risk, evaluate the business impact and recommend creative solutions. From financing new opportunities to evaluating and implementing restructuring and workout strategies, we advise lenders, borrowers and other stakeholders on all types of financing transactions, including those with terms and structures which are unconventional, as well as those secured by cross-border collateral. Our Fund Finance practice represents major U.S. banks and lenders on venture capital and private equity bilateral and syndicated subscription-based credit facilities. We are well versed in advising our clients on how to configure capital call loan facilities to address a complex array of the various fund structures.

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.

Media Partners

Global Legal Group

Global Legal Group is an independent digital media company based in central London. Our clients are private practice and in-house lawyers, multinational corporations, and professional services firms in over 190 countries around the world.

In 2011, GLG introduced Global Legal Insights, an essential analytical resource detailing current legal issues spanning 16 practice areas. Global Legal Insights – Fund Finance was launched in 2017. Affectionately known in the fund finance community as “The Pink Book”, it is now in its eighth edition, providing in-depth analysis of market conditions, regulations and laws, covering 19 key jurisdictions, as well as 27 expert analysis chapters, which provide comprehensive insight and up-to-date analysis. Our mission is to provide outstanding performance for our clients and partners.

We provide the digital technologies and expertise that they need to boost their brand exposure and market reach, as well as access to the world’s leading online network of legal experts. By only partnering with the leading legal and business authorities, we also ensure that the information we provide is topical, enlightening and authoritative, making our products the go-to resource.

The FFA room block at the Fontainebleau for the 11th Annual Global Symposium is NOW OPEN!

Fontainebleau

: 4441 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Location

: 1-800-548-8886

Rooms are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.

What do I do if I have questions on the current COVID Policy?

Please reach out to us at health@fundfinanceassociation.com

What is your covid policy?

Please refer to the COVID policy on FFA website here.

What COVID information is required to attend the symposium?

All attendees will be required to create a VOW Digital Health profile and upload a photo ID, proof of vaccination (full completed no less than 14 days prior to the date of the event), and a verified negative Covid-19 test result.

While we are not requiring the booster for the event, we ask that the full set of vaccination is fully completed no less than 14 days prior to the date of the event. This could mean two doses or Moderna or Pfizer or one doze of Johnson & Johnson in the US. We will also accept completed vaccinations from other countries.

I have not received information about uploading my information to the VOW Digital Health app.

Only registered attendees will receive a notification about the VOW Digital Health app. If you would like to confirm your attendance and receive this information, please be in contact with health@fundfinanceassociation.com

What covid-19 tests will be accepted for attendance?

Both a PCR test completed within 72-hours or a Rapid Antigen test within 24 hours of Wednesday, February 16th will be accepted.

No at-home tests will be accepted.

Can I use an at-home test for verification?

At-home tests will not be accepted as proof of a negative Covid-19 test as we are not able to verify the results.

What is a verifiable Covid-19 test?

A verifiable Covid-19 test must include your name, date, and negative test result from a pharmacy or a testing/healthcare facility. Both a PCR test completed within 72-hours or a Rapid Antigen test within 24 hours of Wednesday, February 16th will be accepted. No at-home tests will be accepted.

Can I test on-site at the Fontainebleau?

We highly encourage all attendees to Covid-clear prior to arriving at the Fontainebleau. This will ensure a speedy check-in process and eliminate any potential complications on-site! Please note only those who have uploaded all of their information, including a negative test result, to the VOW Digital Health platform will be able to check in and receive their name badge to attend the symposium.

Should you be unable to test ahead of the symposium, a limited number of Covid tests will be available on-site for your convenience at the price of $55 per person, which can be paid for on-site via credit card. Testing will be available during the limited hours of 10 am - 8 pm on Wednesday, February 16th and 8 am - 12 pm on Thursday, February 17th. Should you elect to test upon arrival, please note that it will add at least 30 minutes to your check-in process. We ask that you plan accordingly. If you need to test upon arrival and are not able to make the listed testing times or tests are no longer available, a verifiable test will need to be secured through an alternate facility and approved prior to check-in via the VOW Digital Health platform.

What times will on-site testing be available?

A limited number of tests will be available during the hours of 10 am - 8 pm on Wednesday, February 16th and 8 am - 12 pm on Thursday, February 17th. If you are looking to check in outside of these times, please note that you must be pre-cleared via the VOW Digital Health app to attend.

How long will it take to check-in if I elect to test on site?

Should you elect to test upon arrival, please note that it will add at least 30 minutes to your check-in process. We ask that you plan accordingly.

What happens if I test positive on-site at the Fontainebleau?

Per Fontainebleau’s hotel policy, if you test positive on-site, you will not be permitted to remain on the property and alternate accommodation will need to be secured.

What if I am not able to test ahead of time and tests run out on site?

Proof of a verified negative covid-19 test is required to attend the symposium. While we will make every effort to assist with the testing process, if we are unable to provide you with a test on-site, we will be able to provide you with other available testing locations nearby for you to test prior to check-in.

Will you accept religious or medical exemptions?

We will not be able to permit anyone who is not fully vaccinated for the symposium, including those with a religious or medical exemption. Our apologies that we are not able to make this accommodation.

If you’ve had COVID within the past 90 days and continue test positive, what can we do?

If you have tested positive for Covid within the last 90 days and would continue to test positive, kindly request a doctor's note certifying your covid-19 status that while you may test positive, you had covid within the past 90 days and would not be contagious. Please send your note to the VOW Digital Health support team through the platform so that they can assist with uploading your doctor's note in place of the testing requirement.

I have more COVID-related questions about my attendance.

Please contact health@fundfinanceassociation.com

I have questions about something non-COVID related, who should I go to?

Please connect with info@fundfinanceassociation.com

What is your cancellation policy?

All cancellations of conference registrations must be submitted in writing to info@fundfinanceassociation.com. Cancellations received prior to Monday, February 7, 2022, will receive a refund of 100% of the ticket cost. Cancellations received after February 7, 2022, will be refunded at the discretion of the Fund Finance Association (FFA).

Refunds will not be granted for no-shows (registrants who do not attend the conference with no prior notice of cancellation).

o If you have purchased a ticket, but cannot attend because of a covid-related reason, please be in contact with info@fundfinanceassociation.com for further assistance.

When do I need to take my PCR or Rapid test by?

A PCR can be taken any time from the 13th of February 2022. PCR tests can be taken at most 3 days in advance but also up until the day of the event provided you can receive your test results in time for check-in. A rapid antigen test should be taken at any time on the 15th or 16th of February (within one day of the event starting on the 16th).

What is your vaccination requirement?

Proof of vaccination is required to attend the event. We are not requiring the booster. In order to be fully vaccinated, the full set of vaccination must be fully completed no less than 14 days prior to the date of the event. This could mean two doses or Moderna or Pfizer or one doze of Johnson & Johnson in the US.

We will also accept completed vaccinations from other countries.

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