Name: WFF US: Wit & Wisdom: Advocating for Yourself
Start: 2022-03-31T08:00:00Z
End: 2022-03-31T09:30:00Z
Location: New Mountain Capital, LLC

Women in Fund Finance Event

WFF US: Wit & Wisdom: Advocating for Yourself

March 31, 2022

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT

New York, NY

Women in Fund Finance is pleased to hold the first 2022 Wit & Wisdom Series connecting senior women in the fund finance industry with junior members for intimate breakfast discussions.

Wit & Wisdom is open to female members of Women in Fund Finance with at least two years of experience working in the fund finance industry and are not Managing Directors, Partners, or C-suite executives.

Join host Saaima Shahin, Managing Director, PE CFO at New Mountain Capital on Thursday, March 31 to discuss Advocating for Yourself. Saaima will be joined by Mary Touchstone, Fazillah Durante and Patricia Teixeria to discuss how you can build your own brand and win supporters, and what strategies you can use to advocate for yourself in any situation.

Speakers

Mary Touchstone

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

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.

Saaima K. Shahin

New Mountain Capital

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.

Patricia Teixeira

Ropes & Gray

Fazillah Durante

Scotiabank

Fazillah Durante

Managing Director, U.S. Financial Sponsors & Fund Finance | Scotiabank

Fazillah’s career at Scotiabank spans over 19 years, most recently as a Managing Director in the U.S. Financial Sponsors group providing fund-level financing to U.S. Financial Sponsors & Asset Managers. She is responsible for managing the firm-wide relationship with these institutions on a global basis.

Fazillah began her career at Scotiabank in 2003 as an Associate, Asset Backed Commercial Paper Origination and Trading based in Toronto. In 2007, Fazillah transferred to Scotiabank’s Bahamas office to help establish a Capital Markets business in the region, and to manage a portfolio of private fund investments. In 2010, she transferred to the New York office as a Relationship Manager for the U.S. Capital Markets Group and to help expand Scotiabank’s relationships with key Financial Institutions.

Fazillah is a CFA charter-holder, and completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree (majoring in Finance & Economics) from the University of British Columbia in 2003. Fazillah was a founding member and Co-Chair of the Scotiabank Women’s Advocacy Group (“SWAG”) between 2015-2020 and is still actively involved as a Steering Committee Member. She is also an active member of the Scotiabank Women’s Initiative Education Pillar, and a Board Member of Women in Fund Finance (“WFF”).

Venue

New Mountain Capital, LLC

: 1633 Broadway, 47th Floor
New York, NY 10019
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: New Mountain Capital, LLC