FFA Event

3rd Annual FFA Japan Symposium

Name: 3rd Annual FFA Japan Symposium
Start: 2026-06-03T12:00:00Z
End: 2026-06-03T19:30:00Z
Location: Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi

June 03, 2026

12:00 PM - 7:30 PM JST

Tokyo, Japan

The Fund Finance Association is proud to bring you our third annual FFA: Japan event held in-person at the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi on 3 June 2026.

Date: 3 June 2026
Time: 12:00-19:30
Agenda: In-person panel speakers and networking reception
Ticket Cost: USD $500

Conference will be in Japanese (with simultaneous English translation) /コンファレンスは日本語で行われます（英語への同時通訳付）

Platinum Sponsors

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (www.simpsonthacher.com) is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and today has more than 1,300 lawyers. Building on over 135 years of experience, the Firm has played a substantial role in many of the most complex and noteworthy transactions and matters of the last decades. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe.

The Firm offers a market-leading fund finance practice with deep experience providing fund- and asset-level leverage solutions for private equity, real estate, investment, special situations and infrastructure funds. Complementing the Firm’s preeminent private funds practice, our global fund finance team represents clients across a broad spectrum of transactions encompassing all aspects of the investment management business.

SMBC

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 150 offices and 120,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and ADRs on the New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

SMBCグループは、約400年の歴史を持ち、銀行、リース、証券、クレジットカード、コンシューマーファイナンス等、幅広い事業を展開する世界トップクラスの「複合金融グループ」です。東京に本社を構え、世界中の約40か国に150以上のオフィスと120,000人の従業員を擁しています。

持株会社である三井住友フィナンシャルグループは、日本の三大銀行グループの一つで、その株式は東京、名古屋、およびニューヨーク証券取引所（NYSE: SMFG）で取引されています。

Gold 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.

Silver Sponsors

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.

Media Partners

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi

: 1-2-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, 100-0004
Map

: +81 3 6810 0600

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Payment and Cancellation Policy

To secure confirmation of registration, all registration dues and other applicable fees must be paid in full no later than 5 business days prior to the Symposium. Any unpaid registrations after this date will be cancelled. [Payment received on or before May 26, 2026]

In the event the attendee can no longer attend the Symposium, the FFA must be notified in writing via email at info@fundfinanceassociation.com. Refunds are available if written cancellation is received in accordance with the following schedule:

10 business days prior to the scheduled Symposium: A full refund (less taxes, processing charges, and other fees) will be granted. [Notification received on or before 19 May 2026]
5 business days prior to the scheduled Symposium: A 50% refund (less taxes, processing charges, and other fees) will be granted. [Notification received on or before 26 May 2026]
4 or fewer business days prior to the scheduled Symposium: No refund will be granted.

Should a registered attendee wish to transfer their ticket to another approved attendee, written notice via email at info@fundfinanceassociation.com is required no less than 2 business days prior to the scheduled Symposium. [Notification received on or before June 1, 2026]

Final decisions regarding the application of this policy remain at the sole discretion of the FFA. In the unlikely occurrence that an event is cancelled, refunds will be granted at the discretion of the FFA. The FFA is not responsible for any additional costs incurred by attendees, such as travel expenses.

Payments Paid Via Credit Card

Paid via Website: Effective December 3, 2025, all tickets purchased through the event registration website will incur a 4.00% credit card processing fee.
Paid via Invoice: Effective January 1, 2026, a 3.50% credit card processing fee will be added to all invoiced tickets and sponsorships paid via credit card. There is no additional fee to pay via ACH or Wire.