Women in Fund Finance Event

WFF San Francisco: Golden Gatekeepers Power Lunch

Name: WFF San Francisco: Golden Gatekeepers Power Lunch
Start: 2026-03-05T12:00:00Z
End: 2026-03-05T14:00:00Z
Location: PABU Izakaya

March 05, 2026

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST

San Francisco, CA

Event Overview

What kind of leader do you want to be—and what’s getting in the way?

Join us at Pabu Izakaya for the first-ever Women in Fund Finance event in San Francisco. Executive Therapeutic Coach, Lisa Pepper-Satkin, MA, MFG, will lead a transformative session on leading with intention, emotional agility, and meaningful impact. Come as you are and claim your seat at the table.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, March 5
Location: Pabu Izakaya
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM PST

Please note, registration is open on a first-come, first-served basis. If this event becomes oversubscribed, Women in Fund Finance reserves the right to limit each firm's number of attendees, in order to allow for participation from all of our sponsor firms.

Speaker

Crestline Investors

Crestline Investors, founded in 1997, is a premier and trusted partner for alternative investment solutions, providing creative capital solutions that generate consistent risk-adjusted returns over multiple market and economic cycles.

Crestline brings institutional expertise to its specialty sectors and business lines that it applies to creating solutions and identifying opportunities throughout the capital structure, including credit and opportunistic investments that offer flexible capital solutions to middle market companies, asset backed investing and financing solutions for private equity, real estate and infrastructure funds and other private asset vehicles. Crestline Summit employs a multi-strategy, multi-portfolio manager, equity-oriented market neutral approach to producing absolute returns. Crestline provides beta and hedging solutions for institutional clients. CL Life and Annuity Insurance Company, Crestline’s life and annuity insurance subsidiary, is a provider of fixed annuity products specially designed to manage assets that offer policyholders stable growth, tax deferral, wealth transfer, and retirement income planning. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Crestline maintains affiliate offices in London, New York, Tokyo, and Toronto.

K&L Gates

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with more than 40 offices located in key capital cities and world commercial and financial centres across five continents.

Our Finance practice in Australia is a full service offering with a reputation for handling large, cross-border and innovation transactions, such as the US$3 billion subordinated hybrid note issuance by Scentre Group (which was nominated for Asia Pacific "Deal of the Year" in 2021 by the International Financial Law Review). K&L Gates provides an integrated service offering particularly well suited for financings involving multi-jurisdictional obligors or offshore markets as we leverage the experience of our team on the ground in Australia and the global platform of the firm.

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.

Venue

PABU Izakaya

: 101 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

: PABU Izakaya

WFF San Francisco: Golden Gatekeepers Power Lunch

Event Overview

What kind of leader do you want to be—and what’s getting in the way?

Speaker

Lisa Pepper-Satkin, MA, MFT

Sponsors

Venue

PABU Izakaya