FFA Event

8th Annual European Fund Finance Symposium

Name: 8th Annual European Fund Finance Symposium
Start: 2024-05-02T00:00:00Z
End: 2024-05-02T00:00:00Z
Location: QEII Centre

May 02, 2024

London

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 2023 Events were attended by over 2,500 industry professionals representing over 500 firms.

Platinum Sponsors

Appleby

Appleby is one of the world's leading international law firms, a market-leader in the Fund Finance sector and a founding member of the Fund Finance Association (FFA).

Ranked as Tier 1 by The Legal 500 Banking & Finance, our globally recognised 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.

Ashurst

We are pioneers in Fund Finance. As one of the first law firms to advise in this market, we have helped shape its growth and development into the multiple finance products available today. Collectively, our industry-leading partners have over 80 years of experience in structuring and acting for lenders and borrowers on all types of fund financings, including capital call, NAV, preferred equity, SMAs, family offices, co-investments and GP & management facilities. Our unrivalled breadth of experience, commitment to the market and track record of delivering exceptional standards of service means we are a trusted adviser to all the major lenders, GPs, managers and sponsors.

We know funds. Working with our award-winning fund formation, fund tax and fund regulatory practices, we are able to advise and guide the most demanding clients on all aspects relating to funds.

We find solutions that work across borders. As one of the world's leading global law firms, our story is one of change and progress. Since 1822, our ambition has always been to lead the field, to be ahead of our time, and to inspire change. Through our 200-year history, taking a progressive stance on the issues of our time has been a constant thread, every step of the way. And this thread continues to run through our global law firm. We have 31 offices in 18 countries and offer the reach and insight of a global network, combined with the knowledge and understanding of local markets. With over 450 partners and a further 1,800 lawyers working across 11 different time zones, we are able to respond to clients wherever and whenever required. Our network of fund and fund finance experts are one global team that seamlessly and efficiently find solutions and manages the largest and most complicated cross-border transactions.

Ashurst – ranked Band 1, Legal 500 Fund Finance 2024

Barclays

Barclays Investment Bank deploys financial solutions to help our clients with their funding, financing, strategic and risk management needs across sectors, markets and economies.

The Investment Bank is comprised of the Investment Banking, International Corporate Banking, Global Markets and Research businesses, aiding money managers, financial institutions, governments, supranational organisations and corporate clients around the globe. We offer a full spectrum of strategic advisory, financing and risk management solutions to help drive innovation and growth.

For over 330 years, our commitment to shared success has been at the heart of what we do, because we are all at our best when we all progress.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

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

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.

Clifford Chance LLP

Clifford Chance is one of the world’s pre-eminent law firms, with the depth and range of resources to help our clients across all the major global financial centres. As a single, fully integrated partnership, we pride ourselves on our ability to work seamlessly across national borders and product areas to deliver broad industry expertise and local knowledge.

Experienced global fund finance team

Our Fund Finance team acts for many well-established fund managers and major lenders (banks and alternative lenders), which allows us to anticipate our clients’ requirements and key pressure points and to use our deep experience to structure commercially oriented and efficient solutions. We advise on both fund and asset level financing solutions.

We are experienced in structuring, efficiently diligencing and executing all types of fund finance solutions and have advised on some of the most challenging and innovative transactions in the market (for example, we recently advised on non-bank funding of capital call facilities).

We regularly advise on:

Manager/GP/Co-Invest Facilities
NAV facilities
Hybrid facilities
Preference based transactions
Bridge/Capital Call Facilities
Securitisation Fund Facilities/Private CLOs
Innovative Structures.

Deep fund expertise

Our experience is complemented by top tier fund formation, regulatory and tax teams with whom we collaborate closely. This makes us uniquely placed to deliver creative, complex financing solutions and help clients navigate regulatory and contractual challenges. Our clients come to us for their most complex fund finance and securitisation work and are looking for innovative solutions. Clifford Chance has led many of the largest and first-of-a-kind fund financing transactions in the market.

We are set up as a global fund finance team and our market-leading practice covers the UK, Continental Europe, the US and APAC. Our team provides a full, coordinated legal service to clients across practices and jurisdictions to ensure that we deliver commercial and tailored advice. Our ability to collaborate allows us to structure creatively and problem solve effectively.

If you would like to discuss how our fund finance team can support your business, or to learn more about our experience and capabilities, please get in touch with us. We look forward to helping you achieve your objectives in this dynamic and evolving market.

Deloitte

The Fund Finance Advisory business sits within the Debt, Capital & Treasury Advisory team at Deloitte, which is made up of >75 debt advisory professionals in the UK and >125 across Europe. The team consists of 6 professionals based in London, is involved in a range of financings across the full breadth of the Fund Finance market in terms of both product (subscription line, NAV and GP finance) and sector (PE, credit funds, real estate and infrastructure). It is solely focused on the Fund Finance market and has successfully advised and executed on the raising of c.€20bn of finance across >40 transactions since the team was formed in 2020, centred around well-established managers in the middle-market private equity space in Europe.

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. The bank focuses on its strengths in a leading Investment Bank and Private Bank,a Corporate Bank newly created in 2019, 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 has a comprehensive global offering, providing institutional and corporate clients with fixed income and currencies risk management and liquidity provision, leading financing capabilities, and a full suite of origination and advisory services.

Deutsche Bank is an active participant in the fund finance market globally 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 APAC, EU and US based sponsors seeking to execute on new subscription finance 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’s Global Financing and Credit Trading platform.

EverBank

About EverBank

EverBank, N.A. (“EverBank”) is a nationwide specialty bank providing high-value products and services to consumer and commercial clients nationwide. As a pioneer in online banking, we offer convenient digital access for clients 24/7, in addition to phone banking services and a network of financial centers across Florida. EverBank’s commitment is to deliver to our clients high-performing, high-yield solutions backed by exceptional service, always giving them the advantage they expect, to make the most of their money. Visit everbank.com or connect and interact with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or X (formerly Twitter). EverBank is a Member FDIC.

About EverBank Fund Finance

EverBank’s Fund Finance business is a division of EverBank, N.A., a nationwide specialty bank providing high-value products and services to consumer and commercial clients nationwide. EverBank’s Fund Finance division provides lending and financing solutions to alternative asset managers and the private equity community. Products include subscription credit facilities, hybrid and NAV loans, management company facilities and other bespoke financings, along with advisory and placement services, as needed, and customized treasury management capabilities built specifically for the private markets. This specialized business team has some of the industry’s most experienced professionals to help deliver tailored solutions with preeminent service to help clients maximize their performance and efficiency. For more information on EverBank’s Fund Finance offerings, visit EverBank.com.

Fitch Ratings

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

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

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

For additional information, please visit fitchratings.com.

Haynes and Boone

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

ING

ING is a global bank with a strong European base. Our more than 60,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries.

Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business.

Our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages in most of our retail markets. For our Wholesale Banking clients we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management and trade and treasury services.

Customer experience is what differentiates us and we’re continuously innovating to improve it. We also partner with others to bring disruptive ideas to the market faster.

ING’s dedicated Fund Finance team have a presence in London, Luxembourg, New York and Singapore.

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

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.

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.

MUFG Investor Services

MUFG Investor Services is a leading solutions provider for the global alternative investment management industry. From 17 locations around the world, MUFG Investor Services, through its suite of solutions, helps clients mitigate risk, execute seamlessly, and increase efficiencies across their pre- and post-trade operations. With more than $1 trillion in assets under administration, MUFG Investor Services is one of the top fund administrators globally and provides a broad range of solutions including administration, asset servicing, banking and liquidity, corporate and regulatory services, financing, business consulting, and more. Its nearly 500 clients represent funds across the public and private markets, including hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity, private debt, real assets, infrastructure, mutual funds, venture capital, and more. MUFG Investor Services is a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc (MUFG) one of the largest banks in the world with approximately $3 trillion in assets. To learn more, please visit us at www.mufginvestorservices.com.

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 close to 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 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+).

Ogier

Recommended as a top-tier firm by The 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 1,200 people across 13 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.

Reed Smith

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

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.

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.

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.

SMBC

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 150 offices and 120,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and ADRs on the New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

SMBCグループは、約400年の歴史を持ち、銀行、リース、証券、クレジットカード、コンシューマーファイナンス等、幅広い事業を展開する世界トップクラスの「複合金融グループ」です。東京に本社を構え、世界中の約40か国に150以上のオフィスと120,000人の従業員を擁しています。

持株会社である三井住友フィナンシャルグループは、日本の三大銀行グループの一つで、その株式は東京、名古屋、およびニューヨーク証券取引所（NYSE: SMFG）で取引されています。

Société Générale

Société Générale 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.

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.

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

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.

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. Learn more at AssuredGuaranty.com.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and with offices in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, 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 $A1,200 billion (as of 30 June 2024).

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.

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.

FAB (First Abu Dhabi Bank)

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the UAE’s global bank, and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions, with an international network that spans five continents and a presence in 20 markets to facilitate cross-border liquidity, trade, and investment flows.

With the strongest combined credit rating among any other bank in the MENA region and a total assets of AED 1.31 trillion (USD 356 billion) as of March-end 2025, FAB offers an extensive range of tailor-made products and services to meet the banking needs of our customers in the UAE and the international markets where we operate, via our market-leading Investment Banking & Markets, Wholesale Banking, and Personal, Business, Wealth and Privileged Client Banking.

In line with the UAE’s long-term economic agenda, FAB is advancing key national priorities including sustainable finance, digital innovation, and economic diversification. The bank has committed significant resources toward ESG-aligned lending, and is scaling up platforms that support financial inclusion, infrastructure development, and energy transition.

FAB’s scale, governance, and international linkages make it a critical enabler of the UAE’s financial and economic ambitions, ultimately supporting a strong, well-capitalised banking sector and facilitating strategic growth across sectors.

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.

Linklaters LLP

Linklaters is a leading international law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers across 31 offices in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

We have one of the broadest, deepest and most globally integrated funds practices of any law firm. Our global finance practice is at the top of the market and, within it, our fund finance team regularly advises across the full range of fund-based lending structures including subscription facilities, NAV and hybrid facilities, GP financings and co-investment loans. Our team is experienced across all asset classes, including private equity, emerging market, large buy-out and mid-market funds, debt, infrastructure, real estate, energy and fund of funds.

The team’s experience in acting not only for arranging banks and lenders but also for sponsors, asset managers and credit-enhancers across a wide range of sectors, means clients benefit from an incisive, forward-thinking approach to fund finance transactions.

Macfarlanes

Macfarlanes

We are a unique firm. Our blend of expertise, agility and culture means we have the flexibility to meet our clients’ most challenging demands and to champion innovation.

Our approach is simple. Our firm is built and shaped around the needs of our clients with whom we form long-lasting relationships. They entrust us with their most difficult and complex problems in the areas in which we practise. We find, recruit and train talented people from all backgrounds, who we want to have long-lasting careers with us and who will one day shape and lead the firm. To achieve this, we operate differently.

A simple model

We do not aim to be all things to all clients. Instead we have grown thoughtfully to provide the depth and breadth of services they need. We operate with our clients in three broad areas.

We assist them with their major transactions. This includes anything from complex M&A and real estate transactions to the creation of sophisticated financial products.
We assist our clients with their most consequential litigation and investigations.
We advise on all aspects of our clients’ private capital needs, working with asset managers, family offices and individual entrepreneurs, including, uniquely, through our market-leading private client practice.

The scope of our services is distinct. We are one of the foremost firms in each of these areas.

A different international approach

We operate from two offices: in London, our main office, and in Brussels, where we focus on EU law.

We have a strong international network which we work hard to maintain, as we view these firms as our partners in delivering services to our clients and to theirs. We work with the best lawyers for the mandate in each jurisdiction. This gives clients choice and enables us to provide them with the highest possible level of service.

A human-sized culture

We recruit people to build careers for the long term. We know each other personally which means we work together with cohesion and speed. We have a strong, independent culture, which is challenging and supportive, creating an entrepreneurial environment where everyone, at whatever level, can thrive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 200+ retainer clients have more than $3.2 trillion in combined assets under management.

Since 2010 we have delivered market-leading 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 programs, through dedicated resources and proprietary technology.

In addition, since 2018 we have provided 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. We also provide automated technology solutions to help clients meet ongoing operational requirements related to their financing facilities.

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.

Silver Sponsors

Addleshaw Goddard LLP

AG is an international law firm, working from 21 offices around the world in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. By combining our own offices, our business groups and a network of preferred firms we offer a full range of legal services in over 200 jurisdictions.

We have a 3 partner-led (with over 50 years of combined experience) dedicated and collaborative Funds Finance team, one of the largest Funds Finance teams in the market and is a go-to firm for significant and complex cross-border Funds Finance transactions.

Few firms match the 360 degree breadth of practice AG brings to private investment fund managers and investors and their funders. The team works closely with AG’s Investment Management, Structured Finance and Securitisation teams which comprise of specialists in funds formation, tax and structuring, regulation and corporate and is one of the largest and most recognised practices in the UK.

Allvue

Allvue is a leading provider of technology for investment managers in the private capital and credit markets industry. Its mission is to empower superior investment decisions by pairing modern cloud-based software solutions with capabilities across multiple asset classes. Allvue’s software solutions serve the entire investment lifecycle and are seamlessly integrated to provide a comprehensive product suite, serving investment managers of all sizes worldwide. With a commitment to innovation and a focus on multiple asset classes, Allvue’s software solutions allow its clients to operate and grow their businesses more effectively by automating manual processes, improving data accuracy and consistency across workflows, and delivering enhanced analytics.

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

Bank of China Limited, London Branch

Established in 1912, Bank of China is the Bank with the longest continuous operation among all Chinese banks. As China’s most globalised and integrated bank, Bank of China has a well-established global service network with institutions set up across the Chinese mainland as well as in 62 countries and regions. It has established an integrated service platform 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 and other areas, providing its customers with a comprehensive range of financial services.

Established in 1929, Bank of China London Branch is the first ever overseas Chinese financial institution in global financial centers. Its history in the UK perfectly illustrates the international journey of China’s modern financial services industry. Over the past 94 years, Bank of China has expanded steadily in the UK and has become the first choice for both Chinese ‘going-out’ customers and local UK customers seeking to establish relationships with China, with branches in the City of London, London Chinatown, Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow across the UK. It is taking a leading role amongst UK based Chinese financial institutions and is one of the mainstream foreign banks in the European market.

BC Partners Credit

BC Partners Credit was launched in 2017 and seeks to provide a full credit cycle investment platform, allocating liquid and illiquid capital to the middle market. We invest diverse pools of capital across the risk / return spectrum totaling $6.9 billion of AUM, which gives us the flexibility to propose solutions tailored to each borrower’s unique objectives. This allows BCP Credit to be a value-added partner who can scale throughout the borrower’s life cycle. Recognized as a leader and early mover in GP and NAV financing, BCP Credit has deployed over $600mm across a substantial GP/NAV portfolio as alternative managers search for creative financing solutions to address the current themes of (1) slower fundraising, (b) delayed exits, and (c) increased investor demand for returned capital.

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.

Nordea

The Nordea Fund Finance team was established in 2014 and is a dedicated team of experienced fund finance professionals within our Leveraged Finance division. The team supports Nordea’s clients within the Private Capital segment with financing solutions across various strategies including private equity, infrastructure, growth, VC and private credit. We have the mandate and capabilities to support our clients with bespoke financing solutions across different fund sizes, geographies, as well as in various stages of fund life-cycles. In addition to subscription line financings, we can on a selective basis provide NAV/Hybrid financings, SMA financings, GP/Management financings and fund-backed HoldCo/SPV financings. As we form part of Nordea’s well established Leveraged Finance team, we commonly partner with our leveraged finance colleagues to provide flexible and tailor-made financing solutions across OpCo, HoldCo and fund level. We apply a deep and fundamental relationship-driven approach towards our clients and aim to establish ourselves as the #1 partner bank for global fund finance and Leveraged Finance business with a Nordic nexus.

RBS International

We specialise in helping institutional clients look after their money and manage risk. This includes transactional banking, fund financing, liquidity and risk management, and depositary services (through separate legal entities). We’re based in Jersey, Guernsey, London, Luxembourg, Gibraltar and the Isle of Man so our clients get personal, tailored support from a local expert. And our multi-currency online banking platform, eQ, lets them move and manage money the same way they do their personal banking.

Our clients include alternative investment fund managers, asset managers, fund administrators and corporate service providers. With our culture of restless innovation, we work to make banking easy. We’re focused on delivering all the services our clients need, where and when they need them.

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.

Seward & Kissel LLP

Seward & Kissel LLP, founded in 1890, is a leading U.S. law firm with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C., with particular expertise in the financial services, investment management, banking, and shipping industries. The firm is well known for its representation of investment advisers and related investment funds, broker-dealers, major commercial banks, institutional investors, and transportation companies (particularly in the shipping area). Its practices primarily focus on investment management, corporate, M&A, securities, litigation (including white collar), restructuring/bankruptcy, real estate, regulatory, tax, employment, and ERISA for clients seeking legal expertise in these areas.

Bronze 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.

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

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.

OakNorth Bank

Launched in September 2015, OakNorth Bank provides fast, flexible debt finance (loans of £250k up to tens of millions of pounds) and has lent over £10B to date. Its experienced fund specialists have built a strong track record of supporting investment firms, private equity companies, and funds, providing bespoke debt finance solutions, including NAV financing, liquidity lines, capital call facilities, umbrella loan-on-loan facilities and more. Its expert lending teams have worked across a host of industry sectors, and have the in-house capabilities to understand each funds’ strategy – from asset level to fund level – offering the full spectrum of fund finance facilities within one team.

Praxio Law & Tax

Praxio Law & Tax is an independent multi-service law firm in Luxembourg. As corporate, finance, investment funds and tax attorneys, we service clients in all matters related to business law and both direct and indirect taxation. We are able to handle the most complex cross-border legal, regulatory and tax structuring matters, along with any commercial or business litigation.

Highly committed to the industry, our fund finance team is at the forefront in terms of innovation and advises leading financial institutions, private funds sponsors and alternative lenders on a wide variety of transactions including subscription facilities, NAV facilities, GP and management fee facilities as well as other bespoke and sophisticated fund finance solutions.

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.

Stephenson Harwood

Stephenson Harwood is an international law firm, and we're committed to creating 'positive partnerships' with our clients. We represent listed and private companies, institutions and individuals, building lasting relationships to help them succeed in a complex and ever-changing world.

Our focus is on five core sectors: Energy Transition, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Private Capital and Funds, Technology, and Transportation and Trade.

With more than 1,400 people, including 210+ partners, across eight offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we combine deep legal capabilities and broad commercial expertise. We have also forged close ties with high quality law firms around the world, blending local knowledge with global savvy for clients in over 100 countries.

Media Partners

Global Legal Group

Global Legal Group (GLG) is an independent London-based legal media company firmly committed to delivering pivotal insights. Our range of print and digital products, as well as in-person and online events, provides primary legal, regulatory and policy information and reporting to businesses worldwide. We believe in pursuing fresh, indispensable information to advance the industry as a whole. Across our products, we cover more than 60 areas of law and over 190 jurisdictions, connecting our audience with the expert knowledge they seek out and rely on. We’re passionate about highly relevant, real-time information that empowers learning and advice as it’s shared among our global community, which is made up of private practice lawyers, in-house counsel, compliance officers and businesspeople.

Global Legal Insights to Fund Finance 2025 now into its ninth edition, provides in-depth analysis, insight and intelligence across 31 expert analysis chapters and 19 jurisdictions, covering key industry trends and developments around fund formation, net asset value facilities, subscription lines, enforcement, secondaries, ratings and collateralised fund obligations alongside much more. Written by leading industry participants from across the industry, this is the definitive legal guide for the global fund finance industry in 2025. Available online and to download for free.

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8th Annual European Fund Finance Symposium

Gül Akad

Mark Alexander-Dann

Moynul Ali

Sarah Ambulante

Susannah Amini

John Anderson

Loïc Bacquelaine

Navdeep Benning

Joel Buckett

Kathryn Cecil

Julien Claudel

Dr. Eric Denton

Mike Durnin

Russell Evans

Greg Fayvilevich

Simon Felton

Cassie Fisher

Richard Fletcher

Nicola Germano

Alex Griffiths

Fabrice Guesde

Zoe Hallam

Michael Hubbard

Andrew Husdan

Findlay Hyde

Stuart Ingledew

Fantine Jeannon

Bronwen Jones

Charlotte Jones

Ibrahim Khan

Mohamed Khan

Vanessa Lawlor

Antoine Leboulanger

Jons Lehmann

Stanley Likver

Anthony Lombardi

Gianluca Lorenzon

Matthew Maguire

Martin Mahler

Steven Mansy

Pierre Maugüé

Keenan McBride

Stuart McIntosh

Katie McMenamin

Jamie Mehmood

Robert Milner

Roxana Mirica

Brad Mitchell

Dave Moloney

Shelley Morrison

Billal Muhammad

Jad Nader

Andrey Nikolaev

Leigh O'Brien

James Parsons

Gabriela Patrikova

Pierre-Henry Quantin

Thomas Rapp

Emily Rose

Emma Russell

Rhita Sami

Aimee Sharman

Bhupinder Singh

Paul Sinthunont

Sherri Snelson

Mohith Sondhi

Thomas Speller

Victoria Stewart

Paul Tannenbaum

Stephen Thomas

Simon Thwaites

Saniyé Tipirdamaz

Steven Tremblay

Marco Unti

Raghav Wadhawan