Name: 2023 WFF Networking Lunch at Nobu Miami
Start: 2023-02-08T11:30:00Z
End: 2023-02-08T14:30:00Z
Location: Nobu Miami Beach

Women in Fund Finance Event

2023 WFF Networking Lunch at Nobu Miami

February 08, 2023

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM EST

Miami Beach, FL

Join Women in Fund Finance for our annual networking lunch at Nobu Miami, in conjunction with the Fund Finance Association's 12th Annual Global Symposium!

This event is currently limited to female and male members of Women in Fund Finance sponsor firms. There will be a networking reception and oceanside chat with Jennifer Grancio, the CEO of Engine No. 1, food and drinks, and great conversations and connections.

The reception begins at 11:30 am down the block (or beach!) from the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, the site of the FFA Global Symposium.

Please note you must be registered for the 2023 Global Fund Finance Symposium in Miami to attend the WFF Networking Lunch.

Speakers

Jennifer Grancio

Engine No. 1

Jennifer Grancio

CEO | Engine No. 1

Jennifer guides the firm’s strategy and vision. She has over 25 years of experience scaling businesses across financial services that have a positive impact for investors.

Before Engine No. 1, Jennifer founded an advisory firm where she worked closely with CEOs to accelerate growth. Prior to that, she served as a founding member of BlackRock’s iShares business, where she led European, US, and global distribution and drove the growth of the global ETF industry and iShares’ leadership role within it. During her tenure at BlackRock, she also led teams across wealth, personal investing, technology, and venture investing. She started her career as a consultant at PwC.

Jennifer received a BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She serves on the boards of MannKind Corporation and Ethic. She is passionate and active in mentoring and developing diverse leaders.

Sandi Kim-Suk

Engine No. 1

Sandi Kim-Suk

Chief Financial Officer | Engine No. 1

Sandi is a senior financial executive with over 25 years of experience in banking and private equity. Prior to joining Engine No.1, she had roles as CFO of Norwest Equity Partners | Norwest Mezzanine Partners, and at L Catterton. Sandi began her career as an investment banker at Citi in the media/telecom group and subsequently moved to Citi’s Finance Division where she was responsible for Capital Management within the Treasury group of Capital Markets & Banking, and then subsequently was the COO/CFO of Citi Infrastructure Investors, a $3.5 billion infrastructure-focused fund.

Sandi received her BA in Economics from Smith College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Deborah Low

Haynes Boone

Deborah Low

Partner | Haynes Boone

Deborah Low is a partner in the Finance Practice Group in the New York office of Haynes and Boone. Her background is in representing foreign and domestic institutional lenders in various forms of secured and unsecured finance transactions including subscription finance, syndicated lending, corporate finance, leveraged finance, commodities and energy finance and project finance. In connection with subscription-secured credit facilities, Deborah also regularly advises clients on additional leverage solutions for private equity funds including NAV and hybrid facilities, management fee lines, GP and employee coinvest lines and letters of credit.

Georgina Pullinger

Appleby

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”.

Steven Kahn

Assured Guaranty

Steven Kahn

Senior Managing Director | Assured Guaranty

Steve is a Senior Managing Director at Assured Guaranty and co-head of the Structured Finance Group. Steve is leading Assured’s Fund Finance business with a focus on capital call facility guarantees for banks and investors. Prior to joining Assured Guaranty in 2019, he was a Managing Director in the Structured Products Group at Mizuho Securities and before that, he spent five years as President and Executive Officer of Invicta Capital, a credit derivative product company. Steve spent 12 years at Financial Security Assurance where he was head of the CLO and ABS guaranty businesses. Steve started his career as a CPA at Ernst & Young.

Sponsored by

Appleby

Appleby is one of the world’s leading international law firms, and a market-leader in the Fund Finance sector.

Our experienced Fund Finance team are experts in advising banks and finance providers in the development of sophisticated financing solutions. We regularly act across multiple fund and collateral structures, involving partnerships, LLC’s and other corporate vehicles as borrowers and guarantors. The team have unparalleled experience and expertise and have advised on hundreds of subscriptions, NAV, hybrid and asset-backed facilities that have ranged from a hundred million to billions of dollars in subscribed investor commitments.

Appleby holds a strong reputation and history in this market space and is a founding member of the Fund Finance Association.

Assured Guaranty

With $11 billion in claims-paying resources and over three decades of structured finance and infrastructure finance experience, Assured Guaranty is the world’s leading provider of financial guaranty insurance. Its U.S., U.K. and French insurance subsidiaries work with banks, investors, issuers, arrangers and their advisors to provide cost-effective credit enhancement for capital market financings in developed markets around the world. Assured Guaranty guarantees timely principal and interest payments, improving the creditworthiness, potential marketability and market liquidity in both new and secondary markets for consumer and commercial asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), infrastructure financings and subscription finance. Assured’s guaranty enables risk transfer in public or private transactions for banks, insurance companies and asset managers to optimize the risk profile, internal exposure limits and capital consumption of existing and prospective portfolio exposure. Another subsidiary, Assured Investment Management, provides asset management services and is a prominent CLO manager. Learn more at AssuredGuaranty.com.

Haynes and Boone

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

Venue

Nobu Miami Beach

: 4525 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Map

: https://www.noburestaurants.com/miami/home/

Located in Eden Roc Miami Beach