FFA Event

2027 Global Leadership Summit

Name: 2027 Global Leadership Summit
Start: 2027-09-13T09:00:00.0000000
End: 2027-09-15T17:00:00.0000000
Location: Fairmont Banff Springs

September 13 - 15, 2027

Canada

Event Overview

The FFA recognizes the the current challenges in the Fund Finance market, notably the need to increase the supply of finance available (in all forms) to support private market funds as well as continued innovate financing solutions. To that end, the 'FFA Summit' format is designed to gather senior individuals from stakeholders from across the industry to discuss these challenges, seek consensus, and actively develop solutions to address them.

Additional details will be shared by February 2027.

Event 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.

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.

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader is a global law firm trusted to deliver on complex, high-stakes matters. Operating at the intersection of business, finance, and government, the firm brings the decisive counsel that helps clients move markets, shape industries, define new opportunities, and succeed. Consistently recognized for innovation across legal services, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader combines sharp judgment with intellectual rigor to address critical, cutting-edge challenges.

With 3,100 lawyers worldwide, the firm offers global scale with strong local insight in the markets that matter most. Its commitment extends beyond client work through pro bono activities, community investment, and responsible business practices.

Seward & Kissel LLP

Seward & Kissel, founded in 1890, is a leading U.S. law firm with a pre-eminent focus on investment management, financial services, and transportation. With offices in New York and Washington, D.C., the firm advises hedge funds, private equity funds, registered funds, investment advisers, broker-dealers, banks, and institutional investors on the legal, regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters critical to their businesses.

Leveraging one of the industry's most established investment funds practices, Seward & Kissel combines corporate, regulatory, enforcement, tax, employment, and litigation capabilities to provide practical, business-focused advice. The firm's multidisciplinary approach and deep industry knowledge help clients navigate evolving market and regulatory developments, manage risk, and achieve their strategic objectives.

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.

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.

Fairmont Banff Springs

: 405 Spray Ave
Banff, Alberta T1L 1J4
Canada