Name: 6th Annual Asia-Pacific Fund Finance Symposium
Start: 2024-11-14T00:00:00Z
End: 2024-11-14T00:00:00Z
Location: Marina Bay Sands

FFA Event

6th Annual Asia-Pacific Fund Finance Symposium

November 14, 2024

Singapore

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 2023 Events were attended by over 2,500 industry professionals representing over 500 firms.

Updated as of 12 August, 2024

David Azcue

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

David Azcue

Partner | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

David Azcue is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Tokyo office, where he co-heads the Private Funds Practice in Japan. Fluent in Japanese and having spent over 35 years in Japan, David advises clients on all aspects of fundraising, investments, financing and operations across a broad range of asset classes and strategies. Working with domestic legal counsel and tax advisors, he has helped pioneer many of the structures used by Japan-focused private fund sponsors to permit non-Japanese investors to invest alongside Japanese investors in Japan-focused funds. Working with his Credit colleagues, he has also worked on the first subscription facilities for Japan-focused private funds open to international investors. He has worked on many of the market-defining fundraises and funds-related transactions over his almost two decades of practice in Japan.

David has been recognized as a leading private funds lawyer by authorities including Chambers Asia-Pacific, where he is ranked Band 1 in Investment Funds: Registered Foreign Lawyers; IFLR1000; Legal500 and Who’s Who Legal, and brings to his practice a deep understanding of Japan and broad experience in global fundraisings for private investment funds. Simpson Thacher’s Asia Investment Funds Practice is ranked Band 1 by Legal500 and has won numerous awards, including “Investment Funds Firm of the Year” at the 2017 and 2019 Asia Legal Awards and “Asia Fund Formation Firm of the Year 2018” by Private Equity International. The Firm’s Japan Investment Funds Practice won the 2019 Asian Legal Business Japan Awards and is ranked Band 1 in Investment Funds: International Firms and Joint Ventures by Legal500.

Oliver Bashlawi

Fitch Ratings

Oliver Bashlawi

Associate Director | Fitch Ratings

Oliver Bashlawi is an Associate Director within Fitch Ratings' Funds & Asset Management (FAM) group. In his role Oliver interacts with a range of market participants to assign credit ratings to fund finance facilities, develop rating methodologies, and publish industry research on fund finance. Oliver primarily covers subscription finance, NAV lending, and fund securitization.

Prior to joining Fitch, Oliver worked in Fund Finance banking at MUFG and across Healthcare and Structured Finance at Shawbrook Bank. Oliver earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from Keele University and a Master’s degree in Finance from IE Business School

Somdatta Basu

ING

Somdatta Basu

Director, Fund Finance APAC, Financial Institutions | ING

Somdatta is a Director within ING’s APAC Fund Finance team with teams located in NYC, London, Luxembourg and Singapore. The team is part of the ING’s Financial Institutions Group and is responsible for the origination, execution and portfolio management of subscription facilities to funds managed by Financial Sponsors and Alternative Asset Managers across the APAC region.

Somdatta has been with ING for over six years and was previously part of ING’s TMT & Healthcare sector team, offering leveraged buyout, acquisition finance, project finance and corporate lending solutions. Prior to joining ING, Somdatta worked with Siemens Financial Services in their Corporate Lending team across India, US and Singapore. She has fifteen years of experience across Fund Finance, Corporate Lending, Leveraged and Structured Finance covering mid-sized corporate clients and sponsors across Asia and Australia.

Rory Callagy

Moody's Ratings

Robert Carnell

ING

Kenneth Ching

Baker McKenzie

Kenneth Ching

Partner | Baker McKenzie

Kenneth Ching is a banking and finance partner at Baker McKenzie, based in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience advising banks, private credit funds, sponsors and corporate borrowers on cross-border financing transactions, including fund financings (subscription lines, GP/LP facilities, SMAs, NAVs, hybrids and umbrella facilities), leveraged financings, special situations credits and other event-driven financings.

Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, Kenneth is recognised as an Up and Coming lawyer for Leveraged Finance by Chambers and as a Rising Star Partner for Banking and Leveraged Finance by IFLR1000.

Doos Choi

Mayer Brown

Paul Christopher

Mourant

Paul Christopher

Managing Partner | Mourant

Paul is the Managing Partner of Mourant's Hong Kong office and the Local Practice Leader of the firm's Corporate and Investment Funds team in Asia. He regularly advises on corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, investment funds, joint ventures and the restructuring of companies and structures. Paul's work highlights include advising:

Gaw Capital Advisors Limited on its sixth opportunity fund, Gateway Real Estate Fund VI, LP to raise $2 billion in total equity commitments. The Fund invests in real estate and real estate related opportunities in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Blackstone on its acquisition of a 70 percent stake in the Greater Bay Area’s largest urban logistics park Guangzhou International Airport R&F Integrated Logistics Park from Guangzhou R&F Properties for US$1.1 billion.
MaiCapital on the launch of a tokenized investment fund, and formation of a related SPV. This is one of the first actively managed hedge funds in Asia to be tokenized.

Paul is listed as Highly Regarded in IFLR1000's 2023 edition and as a Global Elite Lawyer in the Private Client Global Elite Directory 2023.

Tommy Constantinou

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd.

Tommy Constantinou

Co-Head of Fund Finance | Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd.

Tommy Constantinou is Co-Head of Fund Finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd. (SuMi TRUST) within the New York Branch Fund Finance Department. Tommy has led the expansion of the Fund Finance business within SuMi TRUST and is responsible for originating and executing fund finance related credit facilities. Tommy has extensive knowledge in various asset classes including Collateralized Loan Obligations, Subscription Finance, Middle Market Senior Leverage Facilities and Private ABS. Given SuMi TRUST’s unique position as investor, lender and asset manager within alternative investment universe, Mr. Constantinou acts as liaison between Asia and North America by leveraging relationships and knowledge within the SuMi TRUST global network. Prior to joining SuMi TRUST in 2011, Tommy was with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (formerly Citi Smith Barney) for four years within the Private Wealth Management Division. Mr. Constantinou is a graduate of Iona College and received his MBA from the Binghamton University School of Management.

Fi Dinh

MUFG Investor Services

Fi Dinh

Managing Director, Head of Fund Finance APAC | MUFG Investor Services

Fi is Managing Director, Head of Fund Finance APAC at MUFG Investor Services where she lead the expansion of the firm’s fund financing business across Asia Pacific, as well as supporting the growth of the asset servicing and fund administration business globally to assist private capital funds with their liquidity and operational needs.

Fi is a familiar face of the fund finance community globally having supported the growth of this sector for over a decade across the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia markets. She was recognized in The Drawdown’s ‘Most Influential Fund Finance Experts of 2022’ globally. Fi is also active in supporting diversity and next generation development in the industry. She was one of the first members of the Women in Fund Finance Europe committee when she was in London and is co-chair of the Women in Fund Finance APAC since 2020.

Fi pioneered the global trend of ESG-linked fund finance facilities when she led the world’s first ESG-linked subscription credit facility in 2019, marrying the sustainability-linked loan technology that was gaining momentum in other sectors at individual company or asset level, to a portfolio framework that can be applied to PE funds even at the beginning stage of their lifecycle. She sits on the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Financial Centre Advisory Panel (FCAP) – Green Finance working group for the fund management industry since 2020.

Fi moved to Singapore from London at the start of 2019 to help build out the fund and insurance finance business for ING Bank across in APAC and led a rapid expansion of the business within a short few years, by offering creative solutions to GPs, drawing on her extensive experience with market terms in the US and Europe to promote alignments and scalability for the product in the APAC region. Before ING, Fi spent nearly a decade at Barclays in London and Dubai, where she was Director in the Financial Institutions Group and helped build a successful Private Equity coverage franchise supporting financial sponsors and alternative asset managers in EMEA and the US. Her earlier banking career spans across credit analysis, operational risk and project management in the investment banking and corporate banking divisions.

Andrew Felsman

Deutsche Bank

Andrew Felsman

Managing Director, Head of APAC Fund Finance | Deutsche Bank

Andrew is a Managing Director in Deutsche Bank's Global Financing & Credit Trading (GFCT) division. Within GFCT, he currently leads the APAC Structured Credit Trading Business, the Japan Financing and Fund Financing businesses. He has worked at Deutsche Bank for 21 years exclusively in credit as an asset class and has expertise on both the public side trading businesses as well as the private side financing businesses. Andrew has worked in the Sydney, London, New York and Singapore offices of Deutsche Bank and has operated in the APAC region for the last 11 years.

Daniel Hoborough

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Daniel Hoborough

Associate | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Daniel Hoborough is an English-qualified associate in the London office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

Mr. Hoborough is recommended for Fund Finance in The Legal 500 UK (2024), where he is described as “a very strong associate” who is “detail-oriented, patient and gets things done.

Mr. Hoborough joined Debevoise in 2017 from the London office of a top-tier U.S. firm. He graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA (Hons) in History in 2010 and subsequently completed the GDL and LPC (with distinction) at BPP Law School in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Mr. Hoborough was admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales in 2015.

Mr. Hoborough was on secondment to the legal division of a Japanese trading company in Tokyo from October 2019 until April 2020.

Andrew Hutchins

Clifford Chance

Andrew Hutchins

Partner | Clifford Chance

Andrew specialises in complex financing and restructuring transactions across a wide range of bank lending areas, including funds financing, syndicated lending, cross border leveraged transactions, acquisition finance and structured finance. In the IFLR 1000 Guide to World’s Leading Financial Law Firms, Andrew was named “Leading Lawyer” for bank lending. The guide also stated “Andrew Hutchins maintains his position as a well-regarded adviser, particularly on acquisition financing, and he elicits praise for his syndicated loan expertise.”

Andrew was based in our London office (13 years), Hong Kong office (10 years) and is currently in our Singapore office (since May 2016). He brings detailed technical and commercial knowledge from Europe and North Asia to our clients in South East Asia. He continues to work closely with the Hong Kong office, and maintains a strong client base throughout the Asia Pacific Region. Andrew was responsible for our relationship with the APLMA between 2009 to 2016.

Andrew has been a driver in the firm's offering on IBOR/benchmark reform to clients in APAC and on the market developments on this issue in the APAC market generally and he is also a key individual on our APAC ESG offering.

Tom Kirby

Bank of China

Tom Kirby

Managing Director | Head of Fund Finance | Bank of China

Tom joined Bank of China in Sydney in February 2020 and is a Managing Director heading up their fund finance business.

With more than 20 years’ banking experience with HSBC, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Bank of China, Tom’s background includes delivery of subscription and asset-based financing, transactional banking, risk management and global markets products to many of the world largest fund managers.

Tom has built a market-wide reputation for his strengths in relationship management and deal execution with the world’s largest financial Institutions.

Benjamin Masson

Natixis CIB

Benjamin Masson

Global Structured Credit & Solutions, Asia Pacific | Natixis CIB

Benjamin Masson joined the Global Structured Credit & Solutions (GSCS) Asia Pacific team in September 2017, contributing to the expansion of Natixis CIB’s structured credit franchise in the region, including fund financing.

With close to 20 years of experience in asset and structured finance, Benjamin began his career in New York in 2005 as a structurer of project finance transactions (bond and loan), initially with CACIB and later with Natixis from 2008.

In the summer of 2011, he transitioned to Paris and joined the newly formed GSCS team, focusing primarily on structuring capital call facilities for infrastructure PE funds while also gaining exposure to asset-backed securitization. In 2013, Benjamin moved to the syndicate team in Paris, where he worked on project, infrastructure, and export financings for the EMEA region.

Benjamin is a graduate of EPF, a French engineering school, and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada. He also holds a Master’s degree from Paris Dauphine University.

Lily Miao

Appleby

Lily Miao

Partner | Appleby

Lily Miao (苗蕾) is a Partner in the Corporate Finance department of Appleby’s Hong Kong office.

Lily has over a decade of offshore and onshore experience in the Asian and UK market, having started her career at Clifford Chance in London. Lily has worked on some of the most market leading and first of its kind fund finance transactions, spanning the range of capital call, NAV, hybrid, umbrella and GP/LP facilities. Her clients include major international and PRC financial institutions, asset managers, listed and private corporations and investment funds.

Lily was the only offshore lawyer in Asia to be recognised as a 2023 Fund Finance Association Rising Star.

With her proficiency in English, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese and German, she advises clients on a broad range of Cayman Islands, BVI and Bermuda law financing matters.

Peeyush Pallav

Mizuho Bank, Ltd.

Peeyush Pallav

Managing Director/Head - Real Estate Asset & Structured Finance/Asia-Pacific Corporate Banking Department | Mizuho Bank, Ltd.

Peeyush is part of the Real Estate Asset and Structured Finance team for Mizuho, based in Singapore, where the team is responsible for asset financing, securitisations and fund financing including sub lines, hybrids and GP facilities. Previously he was with Natixis in Hong Kong and prior to that, he was the Regional Head of Structured Debt Solutions at DBS Bank in Singapore. He has also held a leadership position at Fitch Ratings, and worked at HSBC and Standard Chartered in different capacities. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is passionate about sustainability and takes a special interest in ESG.

Rita Pang

Allens

Rita Pang

Partner | Allens

Rita Pang is a Partner in the Banking and Finance department at Allens. She is well-recognised as a fund financing specialist in the Australian Market. Rita has extensive experience representing funds as well as domestic and offshore lenders active in the Australian subscription finance market in connection with domestic and offshore private equity, private debt, venture capital and infrastructure fund financings. Her experience includes the development of hybrid, NAV, separately managed account facilities and GP facilities for domestic and offshore funds investing in the Australian market.

Recognised as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 in Banking and Finance, she also has broad experience acting for lenders, borrowers and sponsors in relation to various types of financing, including leveraged acquisition finance, corporate finance, asset and structured finance, property financing and restructuring.

Anthony Ribeiro

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)

Sophia the Robot

Hanson Robotics

Sophia the Robot

Hanson Robotics

Sophia

Hanson Robotics’ most advanced human-like robot, Sophia, personifies our dreams for the future of AI. As a unique combination of science, engineering, and artistry, Sophia is simultaneously a science fiction character depicting the future of AI and robotics, and a technology platform for AI research and uses such as education, healthcare, hospitality, retail and arts. With her remarkable robotic hardware and interactive AI, Sophia simulated a full range of facial expressions, tracks and recognizes faces, looks people in the eye, and holds natural conversations with you.

Since her launch in 2016, Sophia captivated the imagination of global audiences. She served as the first robotic Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme, and became the world’s first robot citizen. As a technology, Sophia’s science has won top AI awards including from Neurips, World Technology Awards, and Edison Prize. Sophia’s appearances on BBC, CNN, Reuter, the Tonight Show, and Good Morning Britain, made her the world’s most famous robot- a beloved household name with millions of viewers, subscribers, followers, and fans, who tune in regularly to see Sophia’s story and latest developments.

David Hanson, PhD

David Hanson PhD is a pioneering researcher and innovator exploring the frontiers of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and human-robot interaction. As the founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics, he integrates robotics, AI, neuroscience, and the arts to create human-like machines capable of natural interactions and emotional intelligence. Hanson’s robots Sophia, Bima-48, Philip K Dick, and others, broke ground with their humanlike expressivity and AI powered interactivity, serving numerous developments in cognitive AI and social robotics, as well as exhibiting as fine art.

As a trailblazer in AGI research, Dr. Hanson continues to push the boundaries of human-AI interaction, working towards the development of benevolent machine consciousness that can collaborate with humanity to address global challenges.

Barney Swan

ClimateForce

Barney Swan

CEO | ClimateForce

Currently based in Far North Queensland, Australia, Barney is leading a 527-acre off-grid research station between the world’s oldest rainforest Daintree and the Great Barrier Reef. In the only place on earth where two world heritage zones meet, he is delivering a scalable blueprint for tropical areas globally through ClimateTech, ethical AI and Web3 systems. Humanising the opportunities between the AI revolution and analog ways of building the economy, he is unlocking public and private funding to sustain local communities, support biodiversity and improve access to water, shelter, energy and food. Barney has managed complex expedition programs in 8 countries, including the Arctic, Tanzania, Antarctica, South Atlantic and Patagonia. He is highly adaptive within corporate, institutional and remote environments.

Niamh Targett

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ)

Niamh Targett

Director | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ)

Niamh Targett is a Director at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) based in Hong Kong, where she heads the Institutional Funds Coverage team for Asia. Niamh and her team cover private capital firms providing subscription facilities and real estate financing, hedging support and cash management solutions, as well as acting as the primary co-ordination point for such funds ‘engagement with structured and leverage finance teams across the bank.

Niamh has over 20 years of banking experience, having worked in London and Hong Kong, covering financial institutions, with a particular focus in the Funds segments across markets and financing products.

Niamh holds a Bachelor’s degree in commerce, and has her CFA Level 2.

Daniel Toblib

Macquarie Group

Daniel Toblib

Head of Fund Finance Origination, APAC | Macquarie Group

Daniel Toblib is the Head of Fund Finance Origination for Asia-Pacific (APAC) at Macquarie Bank. In his role, Daniel partners with private equity, private credit and hedge fund sponsors and investors to provide fund financing solutions.

Daniel has been at Macquarie since February 2016 and covers APAC from the firm’s global headquarters in Sydney.

Notably, Daniel spent over 5 years in New York, where he led Macquarie’s Fund Finance structuring function across North America. Over this time, he built deep expertise in providing bespoke and innovative financing solutions across the fund lifecycle, where the Fund Finance business was recognised on multiple occasions as PDI’s Fund Financier of the Year in the Americas.

Daniel has a Bachelor of Commerce (Distinction) and Bachelor of Economics (Distinction) from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

David Wasserman

Morgan Stanley

David Wasserman

Managing Director - Head of Middle Market Lending and Capital Call Subscription Finance | Morgan Stanley

David Wasserman joined Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in 2018 and has 20+ years of structured corporate lending and fund finance experience. Mr. Wasserman currently leads the Capital Call, NAV and Direct Lending Finance businesses. Previously, Dave worked at SMBC for 14 years as General Manager in its New York Office with prior experience at Bank of America and PwC. Dave has a B.S. in Applied Mathematical Economics from SUNY Oswego and a MBA in Finance from Rutgers University.

Jean Woo

Ashurst

Jean Woo

Office Managing Partner, Singapore | Ashurst

Jean is managing partner of our Singapore office and a partner in the global loans practice in the Ashurst Singapore office. She specialises in international banking and finance transactions, and has over 15 years of experience in the structured lending space in particular funds financing.

Jean has acted for banks, private funds and sponsors and has a broad exposure to a number of jurisdictions in Asia with a particular focus on jurisdictions in South and Southeast Asia.

Jean is a member of the Advisory Council to the Fund Finance Association (FFA) in the APAC region and is also a committee member of Women in Fund Finance. She also contributes to the Singapore chapter in the Global Legal Insights (GLI) publication on Fund Finance.

Platinum Sponsors

Ashurst

We are pioneers in Fund Finance. As one of the first law firms to advise in this market, we have helped shape its growth and development into the multiple finance products available today. Collectively, our industry-leading partners have over 80 years of experience in structuring and acting for lenders and borrowers on all types of fund financings, including capital call, NAV, preferred equity, SMAs, family offices, co-investments and GP & management facilities. Our unrivalled breadth of experience, commitment to the market and track record of delivering exceptional standards of service means we are a trusted adviser to all the major lenders, GPs, managers and sponsors.

We know funds. Working with our award-winning fund formation, fund tax and fund regulatory practices, we are able to advise and guide the most demanding clients on all aspects relating to funds.

We find solutions that work across borders. As one of the world's leading global law firms, our story is one of change and progress. Since 1822, our ambition has always been to lead the field, to be ahead of our time, and to inspire change. Through our 200-year history, taking a progressive stance on the issues of our time has been a constant thread, every step of the way. And this thread continues to run through our global law firm. We have 31 offices in 18 countries and offer the reach and insight of a global network, combined with the knowledge and understanding of local markets. With over 450 partners and a further 1,800 lawyers working across 11 different time zones, we are able to respond to clients wherever and whenever required. Our network of fund and fund finance experts are one global team that seamlessly and efficiently find solutions and manages the largest and most complicated cross-border transactions.

Ashurst – ranked Band 1, Legal 500 Fund Finance 2024

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.

DBS Bank Ltd

DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia with a presence in 19 markets. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS is in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The bank's "AA-" and "Aa1" credit ratings are among the highest in the world.

Recognised for its global leadership, DBS has been named “World’s Best Bank” by Global Finance, “World’s Best Bank” by Euromoney and “Global Bank of the Year” by The Banker. The bank is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, having been named “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney and the world’s “Most Innovative in Digital Banking” by The Banker. In addition, DBS has been accorded the “Safest Bank in Asia“ award by Global Finance for 15 consecutive years from 2009 to 2023.

DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking. As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS understands the intricacies of doing business in the region’s most dynamic markets.

DBS is committed to building lasting relationships with customers, as it banks the Asian way. Through the DBS Foundation, the bank creates impact beyond banking by supporting businesses for impact: enterprises with a double bottom-line of profit and social and/or environmental impact. DBS Foundation also gives back to society in various ways, including equipping underserved communities with future-ready skills and helping them to build food resilience.

With its extensive network of operations in Asia and emphasis on engaging and empowering its staff, DBS presents exciting career opportunities. For more information, please visit www.dbs.com.

EverBank

EverBank’s Fund Finance business is a division of EverBank, N.A., a nationwide specialty bank providing high-value products and services to consumer and commercial clients nationwide. EverBank’s Fund Finance division provides lending and financing solutions to alternative asset managers and the private equity community. Products include subscription credit facilities, hybrid and NAV loans, management company facilities and other bespoke financings, along with advisory and placement services, as needed, and customized treasury management capabilities built specifically for the private markets. This specialized business team has some of the industry’s most experienced professionals to help deliver tailored solutions with preeminent service to help clients maximize their performance and efficiency. For more information on TIAA Bank’s Fund Finance offerings, visit EverBank.com.

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.

MUFG Investor Services

MUFG Investor Services is a leading solutions provider for the global alternative investment management industry. From 17 locations around the world, MUFG Investor Services, through its suite of solutions, helps clients mitigate risk, execute seamlessly, and increase efficiencies across their pre- and post-trade operations. With more than $1 trillion in assets under administration, MUFG Investor Services is one of the top fund administrators globally and provides a broad range of solutions including administration, asset servicing, banking and liquidity, corporate and regulatory services, financing, business consulting, and more. Its nearly 500 clients represent funds across the public and private markets, including hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity, private debt, real assets, infrastructure, mutual funds, venture capital, and more. MUFG Investor Services is a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc (MUFG) one of the largest banks in the world with approximately $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 1,300 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.

Societe Generale

Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world’s societies and economies, Societe Generale and its teams seek to build, day after day, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions.

Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 117,000 members of staff in 66 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses:

French Retail Banking with the SG bank, resulting from the merger of the two Societe Generale and Crédit du Nord networks, and Boursorama. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation;
International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services, with networks in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets;
Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions.

Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe).

For more information, you can follow us on Twitter @societegenerale or visit our website societegenerale.com.

Gold Sponsors

Allens

Allens is a leading international law firm serving clients throughout Australia and Asia. Together with Linklaters, our global network spans 40 offices across 28 countries.

We have built our reputation on the quality of our people, the strength of our client relationships and our innovative approach to complex work. We combine technical excellence with commercial understanding to provide the best insights and whether you're a global multinational or a start-up with a bright idea, our commitment to outstanding service is the same.

Our focus on achieving excellent results for our clients has led to many accolades, including Australian Law Firm of the Year – Chambers Asia Pacific Awards 2023 and Best Law & Related Services Firm – Beaton Client Choice Award 2021.

Appleby

Appleby is one of the world’s leading offshore law firms, and a market-leader in the Fund Finance sector.

Our experienced Fund Finance team are experts in advising banks, funds and finance providers in the development of sophisticated financing solutions. We have advised on a variety of different financing structures involving funds that have ranged from a hundred million to billions of dollars in subscribed investor commitments.

The team have also advised on hundreds of subscriptions, NAV, hybrid, ESG and asset-backed facilities across numerous structures including multiple fund and collateral structures; partnerships and corporate vehicles as borrowers and guarantors; and multi-currency facilities and multiple loan tranches with multiple levels of collateral.

Appleby holds a strong reputation and history in this market space and is a founding member of the Fund Finance Association.

Baker McKenzie

Baker McKenzie (www.bakermckenzie.com) brings insight and foresight to clients across more than 70 global offices. Our team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 lawyers, works alongside our clients to drive growth that is both sustainable – and inclusive.With locations in financial centers and emerging markets, Baker McKenzie’s Global Banking & Finance Group advises on complex financing transactions and regulatory matters across borders. Our locally-embedded, globally-experienced lawyers bring deep sector expertise and an innovative and commercial approach to offer a seamless, end-to-end experience for clients and deliver maximum value to stakeholders in the global financial markets.Our Fund Finance practice seamlessly integrates our market leading Funds and Banking & Finance practices to advise local and international financial institutions, PE funds, credit funds and real estate funds on a wide range of fund finance solutions, including capital call facilities, GP facilities and NAV facilities.

グローバルに展開する法律事務所であるベーカーマッケンジーは、70を超える世界各地の拠点よりクライアントのビジネスをサポートしております。6,500名超の専門家を含む13,000名のメンバーが、クライアントとともに持続可能かつインクルーシブな成長を達成すべく、日々邁進しております。各金融センター及び新興市場に拠点を置くベーカーマッケンジーのバンキング＆ファイナンス・グループは、複数法域に跨る金融取引や規制に精通しています。現地に根ざしたノウハウ及びグローバルな経験を併せ持つ専門家が、産業分野に関する深い専門知識と革新的なアプローチを駆使して、クライアントに一貫したサービスを、そしてステークホルダーに最大限の価値を提供しております。また当事務所のファンド・ファイナンス部門は、市場をリードするファンド部門とバンキング＆ファイナンス部門の専門家により構成されており、国内外の金融機関、PEファンド、クレジット・ファンド、不動産ファンドに対し、キャピタル・コール・ファシリティ、GPファシリティ、NAVファシリティを含む広範なファンド・ファイナンスに関するアドバイスを行っています。

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.

Clifford Chance LLP

Clifford Chance is one of the world’s pre-eminent law firms, with the depth and range of resources to help our clients across all the major global financial centres. As a single, fully integrated partnership, we pride ourselves on our ability to work seamlessly across national borders and product areas to deliver broad industry expertise and local knowledge. Clifford Chance brings a market-leading fund finance proposition, advising lenders, investors and sponsors/GPs on a wide range of financing options, including capital call / bridge facilities, leveraged NAV facilities and borrowing base deals (including hybrid facilities), along with facilities for general partners, preferred equity arrangements and non-bank financing. Our global funds/funds formation practice of over 130 lawyers works in tandem with our lending, corporate and regulatory teams to provide a complete fund financing platform for our clients.

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.

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. The bank focuses on its strengths in a Corporate Bank newly created in 2019, a leading Private Bank, a focused investment bank and in asset management. Deutsche Bank provides financial services to companies, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. The Investment Bank focuses on its traditional strengths in financing, advisory, fixed income and currencies.

Deutsche Bank is an active participant in the fund finance market and has arranged or supported as a member of a wider syndicate a variety of transactions. Deutsche Bank is well-placed as a reliable funding partner particularly on bespoke financing solutions and can help the sponsors achieve a variety of objectives through a wide product suite. Deutsche Bank is a global financial services provider that takes a holistic view of sponsor client relationships and can cater to multiple objectives, asset types and structures. Deutsche Bank’s multi-currency and jurisdictional solutions are especially advantageous for EU, US and Asia based sponsors seeking to execute on new subscription finance opportunities, NAV based lending facilities or opportunistic add-on acquisitions to platform/portfolio companies and clients are provided with connectivity to Deutsche Bank’s overall platform, when desired. Deutsche Bank’s structuring capabilities are best in class with customizable solutions aimed at achieving goals prescribed by the sponsor. Deutsche Bank has financing capabilities across a broad spectrum of assets, matching the breadth of Deutsche Bank’s Structured Finance platform.

East West Bank

East West Bank provides financial services that help customers reach further and connect to new opportunities. East West Bancorp, Inc. is a public company (NASDAQ: “EWBC”) with total assets of $68.5B. The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, East West Bank, is the largest independent bank headquartered in Southern California. EWB Private Equity, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, is the Bank’s largest industry specialty group, with in-depth knowledge of the fund finance market. The 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. The group has completed more than 300 transactions since 2012, with facilities starting at $10 million.

Fitch Ratings

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary, and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. The additional context, perspective, and insights we provide help investors to make important credit judgments with confidence.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of credit market data, analytical tools and risk services; Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm; and Sustainable Fitch, the first global ESG Ratings solution for all asset classes at an entity and instrument level.

With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

For additional information, please visit fitchratings.com.

ING

ING is a global bank with a strong European base. Our more than 60,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries.

Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business.

Our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages in most of our retail markets. For our Wholesale Banking clients we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management and trade and treasury services.

Customer experience is what differentiates us and we’re continuously innovating to improve it. We also partner with others to bring disruptive ideas to the market faster.

ING’s dedicated Fund Finance team have a presence in London, Luxembourg, New York and Singapore.

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.

Mizuho Bank, Ltd.

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion, according to S&P Global 2022. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout Asia, EMEA, and the Americas.

Mizuho Singapore acts as a regional hub for Mizuho in the Asia Pacific region, and provides comprehensive regional support for clients in advisory, financing, debt and trade services. Mizuho APAC has a dedicated team supporting Asia MNC, both multinational and Japanese clients and its capabilities span across investment and corporate banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Mizuho Asia Pacific has over 50 branches, learn more at https://www.mizuhogroup.com/asia-pacific.

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 close to 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: A+, R&I: A+).

SuMi TRUST

Established in 1925, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (“SuMi Trust”) is the largest Japanese trust bank, providing a wide range of banking and fiduciary services to its customers. In its domestic Japanese market, SuMi Trust business covers asset management, corporate and structured financing, real estate brokerage, mortgage loan and retail banking. In international market, SuMi Trust has branches in major global financial centers, where it is primarily focused on banking activity – most notably corporate and structured finance. SuMi Trust is well known not only for working openly and collaboratively with its banking clients, but also for seeking opportunities to introduce its Japanese investor partners enhanced investment solutions in line with its trust bank heritage.

Silver Sponsors

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.

Bronze Sponsors

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm. We advise on the most significant global matters and connect with the best lawyers internationally to provide our clients with the right team for every engagement.

We are one of the leading firms with expertise in the fund finance space, with a broad range of experience including in relation to subscription / capital call facilities, NAV and hybrid facilities, GP financings and SMA transactions. We have a deep bench of partners and associates who act for both borrowers and lenders and are Australian counsel of choice for a number of leading international and domestic firms. Our fund financing practice comprises an integrated team of banking and fund formation expert lawyers with a track record of working together to execute on high value fund finance transactions.

Maples Group

The Maples Group, through its leading international legal services firms, advises global financial, institutional, business and private clients on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg, and is an independent provider of fiduciary, fund services, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services. Combining the Maples Group’s leading finance and investment funds capability, the Group’s Fund Finance team has widespread experience in advising on all aspects of fund finance and related security structures for both lenders and borrowers.

The Maples Group distinguishes itself with a client-focused approach, providing solutions tailored to their specific needs. Its global network of lawyers and industry professionals are strategically located in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East to ensure that clients gain immediate access to expert advice and bespoke support, within convenient time zones.

Visit www.maples.com for more information about our global fund finance team and our legal and fiduciary services.

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.

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