Women in Fund Finance Event

WFF Americas: Dallas-Fort Worth Inaugural Event

Name: WFF Americas: Dallas-Fort Worth Inaugural Event
Start: 2024-03-21T17:30:00Z
End: 2024-03-21T20:00:00Z

March 21, 2024

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT

Dallas, TX

Join WFF for our first event in Dallas-Fort Worth, a Fireside Chat with Elaine Agather, Chairman of the Dallas Region for JPMorgan Chase.

This event will function as both a networking event for the broader DFW-based fund finance community and a fascinating Fireside Chat with Elaine Agather of JPMorgan Chase! Elaine has over four decades of banking experience and along the way has developed eight guiding principles for how to succeed in business and in one’s career. In our Fireside Chat we will hear from Elaine about her “Elaine’s 8” and how she became DFW’s couture rodeo queen.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, March 21st 2024
Time: 5:30 - 8:00pm CDT
Location: Haynes Boone Dallas - 2801 N Harwood St. Suite 2300, Dallas, TX 75201

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.

Speakers

Elaine Agather

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Elaine Agather

Managing Director, CEO of the Central Region | J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Elaine Agather is Chairman of the Dallas Region for JPMorgan Chase & Co. She also serves as the Central Region Head and Managing Director of The Private Bank at J.P. Morgan.

Elaine joined Chemical Bank of New York in 1979, working in London, San Francisco, and New York until she relocated to Dallas in 1984. After the 1986 merger of Chemical Bank and Texas Commerce Bank, Elaine was promoted to Chairman of Texas Commerce Bank in Fort Worth in 1992 and joined the Private Bank to manage client advisory groups across the state in 1997. In 1999, she was elected Chairman and CEO of Dallas.

Elaine is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Performing Arts Fort Worth, serves as a Board Member for the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and is the Secretary of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Dallas Citizens Council and serves on the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Advisory Council.

A native of Sherman, Texas, Elaine graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in history and economics and received her MBA from The University of Texas. She and her husband, Neils, have two daughters, Bradley and Lorene, her son-in-law, Coley Means, and two grandsons, George and Hunter.

Cassandra Best

Mayer Brown

Cassandra Best

Partner | Mayer Brown

Major US and foreign banks and other financial institutions turn to Cassandra Best for representation in structuring, negotiating and documenting subscription credit facilities, hybrid facilities and other lending arrangements. Cassandra advises clients in complex syndicated and bilateral credit facilities to funds managed by some of the world’s most distinguished fund sponsors. She draws from previous experience serving as in-house counsel for a global financial institution, where she advised on mergers and acquisitions and internal reorganizations and restructurings.

Sponsors

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.

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.

Venue

Haynes Boone Dallas Office - 2801 N Harwood St. Suite 2300, Dallas, TX 75201