Diversity in Fund Finance Event

Boundary Breakers Speaker Series

Name: Boundary Breakers Speaker Series
Start: 2023-04-12T09:00:00Z
End: 2023-04-12T10:00:00Z

April 12, 2023

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

Los Angeles and Virtual

The US Diversity team invites you to join us for a “fireside chat” between Shana Ramirez, Partner and leader of the fund finance practice at Katten, and FFA Diversity in Fund Finance Co-Chair Anastasia Kaup. Shana will speak about her career path, trends in fund finance, the realities facing Hispanic/Latinx women in large law firms, and ways to further improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in large law firms and the fund finance industry.

Refreshments will be provided and networking to follow the discussion in Los Angeles.

Registration is open on a first-come, first-served basis. If this event becomes oversubscribed, FFA reserves the right to limit the number of attendees from each firm, in order to allow for participation from as many of our supporting institutions as possible.

Speakers

Shana Ramirez

Katten

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.

Anastasia Kaup

Fund Finance Partners

Anastasia Kaup

Managing Director and Partner | Fund Finance Partners

Anastasia N. Kaup has represented asset managers, fund sponsors, investment funds, bank and non-bank lenders, and other parties in financing and investment transactions across the private equity, private credit, real estate, hedge fund, venture capital, and distressed investment spaces. Ms. Kaup structures, negotiates, and documents complex financing transactions domestically and internationally at all levels of the organizational structure.

Prior to joining FFP, Ms. Kaup most recently led the fund finance practice group at an AmLaw 100 law firm where she represented alternative asset managers, sponsor-backed companies, and lenders to such entities, in a wide array of financing and investment transactions. Anastasia’s extensive fund financing expertise spans subscription and NAV-based credit facilities, partner loan programs, management fee lines of credit, and portfolio company financings. She has also advised both emerging and established financial sponsors in connection with all aspects of product development and capital formation in various formats, benefitting institutional, high- (and ultra-high-net-worth) and sovereign wealth investors. Anastasia’s advice to clients on the entire range of strategic and capital-related needs, throughout economic cycles has always been practical and commercial, as well as legal.

Anastasia is consistently recognized for both her professional expertise and community contributions. She is a trailblazer in LGBTQ+ community advocacy, volunteer work, and education initiatives, including as a leader for Out in Finance and Lambda Legal. She was recognized as one of the “Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40” and has been lauded as a “rising star” by clients and industry publications. Additionally, she served on the Board of Directors of New York’s largest civil rights and advocacy non-profit organization. Currently, Anastasia serves as Co-Chair of the Fund Finance Association’s Diversity in Fund Finance initiative. She also actively participates in various professional organizations serving the Hispanic/Latinx community, women, and individuals in need. Anastasia is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.