Name: 5th Annual Asia-Pacific Fund Finance Symposium
Start: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
End: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
Location: Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

FFA Event

5th Annual Asia-Pacific Fund Finance Symposium

October 12, 2023

Hong Kong

Registration coming soon!

The Fund Finance Association’s annual symposiums bring together investors, fund managers, bankers and lawyers for education and networking within the fund finance market. FFA hosts annual events in Miami, London, and Asia. The 2022 Symposiums were attended by over 1,700 industry professionals representing over 500 firms.

Agenda coming soon.

Platinum Sponsors

Carey Olsen

Carey Olsen is a leading offshore law firm. Our fund finance specialists have extensive experience of advising on all types of lending to investment funds in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey. Our lawyers regularly deal with subscription facilities, GP leverage, co-invest facilities as well as hybrid and NAV based arrangements, with loan sizes ranging from tens of millions to billions of dollars. We work alongside all of the major onshore law firms, accountancy firms and insolvency practitioners on corporate transactions and matters involving our jurisdictions. Our advice is delivered by an approachable and experienced team of globally-minded lawyers who work in partnership with our clients to help them achieve their objectives. We have the expertise and resources to handle the most complex international transactions combined with a personal approach to business.

Haynes and Boone

Haynes and Boone, LLP is one of the leading U.S. corporate law firms with offices across Texas, in New York, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Washington D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai, representing agent banks in Fund Financings in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. With more than 600 lawyers, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest U.S.‐based firms by The National Law Journal. The firm was 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 65 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.

MUFG Investor Services

MUFG Investor Services is a leading asset servicing provider for the global alternative investment management industry. From 14 locations around the world, MUFG Investor Services, through its suite of solutions, helps clients mitigate risk, execute seamlessly, and increase efficiencies in their pre- and post-trade operations. With over $770 billion in assets under administration, MUFG Investor Services is one of the top fund administrators globally. Its nearly 500 clients represent hedge funds, asset managers, private equity, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, fund of funds, and more, and benefit from a broad range of additional solutions including fund financing, foreign exchange, custody, trustee services, depository, middle-office outsourcing, securities lending, and other banking services. MUFG Investor Services is a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc (MUFG) one of the largest banks in the world with $3.3 trillion in assets. To learn more, please visit us at www.mufginvestorservices.com.

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 1,000 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.

Gold Sponsors

East West Bank

Our Private Equity Group provides creatively designed credit solutions to meet the fund financing needs of a wide range of asset management firms, funds, and partnerships. We support clients at all stages of the investment lifecycle with capital call lines and NAV facilities, as well as hybrid facilities which blend the two. We provide these lines to traditional funds, SMAs and high net worth investor feeder funds.

For management companies and general partners, we craft facilities supported by management fees and general partner stakes to provide liquidity and investable capital.

In addition to fund financing, we support our asset management client’s day-to-day banking operations with treasury management, foreign currency, interest rate, trade finance, and wealth management services. Our dedicated Sponsor Finance Group provides credit to our client’s underlying portfolio investments in conjunction with commercial banking teams focused on niche sectors such as Agriculture, Clean Tech, Specialty Finance, and Technology & Life Sciences.

ING

ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base, oﬀering banking services through its operating company ING Bank. The purpose of ING Bank is: empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. ING Bank’s more than 58,000 employees oﬀer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries.

Sustainability is an integral part of ING’s strategy, evidenced by ING’s leading position in sector benchmarks. ING's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating by MSCI was aﬃrmed 'AA' in September 2022. As of August 2022, Sustainalytics considers ING’s management of ESG material risk to be ‘strong’, and in June 2022 ING received an ESG rating of 'strong' from S&P Global Ratings. ING Group shares are also included in major sustainability and ESG index products of leading providers Euronext, STOXX, Morningstar and FTSE Russell.

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.

Mourant

Our market-leading funds team spans time-zones and has an outstanding international reputation in offshore investment funds, working across a wide range of alternative fund asset classes – traditionally real estate, private equity, credit and hedge funds. We advise on the formation, structuring and regulation of investment funds in the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Jersey and Guernsey, and our lawyers provide ongoing legal advice to offshore funds and their managers and investors.

Our ‘one firm’ approach means that working together with clients we deliver seamless, objective and commercially grounded advice on the comparative advantages and disadvantages of the leading offshore fund jurisdictions. Our team exercises true commercial judgment in delivering advice, often going the extra mile, with a personal approach, and forming genuine partnerships with our clients and their advisers. Clients benefit from our teams working together and making things happen in this way, resulting in deals being delivered on time and within budget.

Visit www.mourant.com to find out more.

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.

Our teams of experts in around 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. Natixis CIB is committed to aligning its financing portfolio with a carbon neutrality path by 2050 while helping its clients reduce the environmental impact of their business.

As part of the Global Financial Services division of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group’s financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A, Moody's: A1, Fitch Ratings: AA-, R&I: A+).

Paul Hastings

In today’s world of transformative change, our purpose is clear — to help our clients and people navigate new paths to growth.

Founded in 1951, Paul Hastings has grown strategically to anticipate and respond to our clients' needs in markets across the globe. Our innovative approach and unmatched client service has helped guide our journey to becoming one of the world’s leading global law firms in such a short time.

We have a strong presence throughout Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. We offer a complete portfolio of services to support our clients’ complex, often mission-critical needs—from structuring first-of-their-kind transactions to resolving complicated disputes to providing the savvy legal counsel that keeps business moving forward.

Please visit www.paulhastings.com for more information.

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.

Silver Sponsors

Bank of China Sydney Branch

As China’s most globalised bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions, Bank of China (“BOC”) has over 305,000 employees in 61 countries and regions, with total assets of $4 trillion. BOC has established an integrated service platform based on the pillars of its corporate banking, personal banking, financial markets and other commercial banking business, which covers investment banking, direct investment, securities, insurance, funds and aircraft leasing. In addition, BOCHK and the Macau Branch serve as local note-issuing banks in their respective markets. The primary centres of fund financing in Asia are Sydney, Macau and Hong Kong who work closely together to provide Subscription and NAV based fund facilities to leading global and regional funds. BOC also provides fund financing in New York, London and Luxembourg.

Simmons & Simmons LLP

Collaborative, agile and partner-led: that’s Simmons & Simmons. A law firm that challenges, creates new possibilities and offers opinion not just option. A law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, not for you.

We focus on four highly regulated sectors using our specialist skills to understand your business, and the forces at play around it. All grounded in exceptional knowledge of the legal detail. This is how we consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges.

Our International Funds Finance practice is no exception. Operating across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia, we’re recognised for both technical excellence and outstanding commerciality. The team advises banks, hedge fund managers, private equity funds, real estate funds and investment fund managers in connection with a wide range of financings involving many different fund asset classes. As both the Asset Management/ Investment Funds and Financial Institutions sectors are key areas of focus for our firm, whether we are acting for a lender or a borrower, we are able to deliver an efficient and high calibre service.

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.

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