Adam Summers is the Co-Head of the Fund Finance Practice.
Adam’s broad and sophisticated practice includes work on numerous subscription credit facilities, NAV loans and asset financings for asset managers, including for private equity and debt funds. In addition, Adam represents fund managers and lenders in financings of management company fees and other assets. He also advises investment banks, investment managers, private credit funds, bank and non-bank lenders across a wide range of complex credit and financing structures, including collateralized fund obligations, rated note feeders, NAV financings, hybrid facilities, back leverage facilities and subscription credit facilities.
Adam has been lead counsel on many large and complex credit arrangements for preeminent lenders including Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo for leveraged buyouts and other corporate loans. Adam also regularly represents private credit lenders on a variety of transactions. Clients value Adam’s ability to help them understand and evaluate existing debt capital structures for targets of acquisitions and his expertise negotiating commitment letters in connection with acquisition financings.
Recognized as a thought leader in the fund finance market, Adam regularly speaks at conferences and participates in panel discussions addressing NAV-based financing facilities and other finance hot topics and issues.
Adam has been recognized as a "Next Generation Partner" for seven consecutive years by The Legal 500 in Finance: Commercial Lending, where he is noted for his expertise "in syndicated credit facilities and high-yield bond financings related to acquisitions." He was selected by Law360 as a 2019 “Rising Star” in the Banking category.
Adam received his JD, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law in 2006 and his BA, cum laude, from Yeshiva University in 2003. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.
