Name: FFA US University 1.0
Start: 2022-09-21T09:00:00Z
End: 2022-09-21T17:00:00Z

Brad Boland

Huntington National Bank

The Credit Agreement - Session II

2:55 PM | 2022-09-21

Brad Boland

Managing Director | Huntington National Bank

Brad Boland joined Huntington National Bank in June of 2023 and is the Head of the Huntington Fund Finance group. In this role he leads a team that is responsible for the origination, structuring and ongoing management of various fund finance products including subscription facilities, management company lines of credit as well as certain ancillary products that are relevant to Huntington’s private equity client base.

Prior to joining Huntington, Brad worked as a Managing Director in Signature Bank’s Fund Bank Division from May 2019 through May 2023. Prior to Signature, Brad worked for nine years in Wells Fargo’s Subscription Finance Group where he was head of the group’s U.S. originations team at the time of his departure. Before joining Wells Fargo, Brad spent ten years at Bank of America in various areas including the Healthcare Finance, Sports Finance & Advisory and Global Structured Products groups.

Brad serves on the board of the Alexander Children’s Foundation in Charlotte, NC.

Kiel Bowen

Mayer Brown LLP

The Credit Agreement - Session II

2:55 PM | 2022-09-21

Kiel Bowen

Partner | Co-Head of the Global Lending | Mayer Brown LLP

Kiel Bowen is a partner and Co-Head of the Global Lending practice at Mayer Brown. His practice focuses on representing lenders in fund finance transactions. Kiel has more than a decade of experience advising institutions on sophisticated cross-border fund-level financings, including bilateral and syndicated subscription credit facilities, net asset value credit facilities, hybrid facilities and management fee secured credit facilities. He is known throughout the fund finance market as a go-to source on structuring fund-level debt, investor documentation issues and the fund finance syndication market. Kiel is routinely called on to help clients develop and improve their fund finance platforms, processes and documentation. An industry-recognized thought leader, he is frequently invited to speak at industry events and regularly publishes insights on market developments.

Kiel is a cum laude graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University.

Vicky Du

Standard Chartered

Market Update

4:00 PM | 2022-09-21

Vicky Du

Global Head, Fund Finance | Standard Chartered

Vicky Du is the Global Head, Fund Finance at Standard Chartered, managing a globally integrated team responsible for providing financial sponsors with fund level financing solutions.

Vicky has extensive knowledge and experience in Leveraged Finance, Structured Finance and Capital Markets. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Vicky worked at Goldman Sachs and GE Capital. Vicky received an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, and BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Nebraska.

Jeff Johnston

EverBank

Get to know the FFA

1:30 PM | 2022-09-21

Jeff Johnston

Co-Head of Fund Finance | EverBank

Jeff Johnston is Senior Vice President, Co-Head of Fund Finance, for EverBank.

Prior to joining the bank, Mr. Johnston was a Managing Director and the Head of Asset Management within Wells Fargo’s Corporate & Investment Banking group with oversight of a nearly $100 billion portfolio of bank commitments.

Prior to founding the Subscription Finance business at Wells Fargo in 2010, Mr. Johnston was responsible for the portfolio and workout of over $10B of legacy structured products for the bank, including cash and synthetic ABS and CRE CDO’s, total return swaps, and RMBS positions. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Johnston served in Bank of America’s Global Structured Products group.

Mr. Johnston is a Co-founder and Chairman of the Board for the Fund Finance Association, a global industry association for constituents in the fund finance space, is considered an original thought leader of fund finance and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Mr. Johnston is a CFA charter holder and is a graduate of the University of South Florida.

George Jovanoski

J.P. Morgan

Mike Mascia

Fund Finance Association

Welcome and Introduction

9:00 AM | 2022-09-21

Closing Remarks

4:30 PM | 2022-09-21

Mike Mascia

Secretary | Fund Finance Association

Mike Mascia is the former Chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Finance Group and was a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He had a globally recognized fund finance practice, having represented lenders in subscription credit facilities to real estate and private equity funds sponsored by many of the world’s preeminent fund sponsors. He has been lead counsel on numerous hybrid facilities, and is one of the few attorneys in the United States with experience in both subscription credit facilities and CLO’s. Mike represents lenders on leverage facilities to secondary funds and other credits looking primarily to fund assets or NAV for repayment. Mike is the founder of the annual Global Fund Finance Symposium and he is a founding member and the Secretary of the Funds Finance Association.

Anthony Philp

Maples Group

Private Equity Fund Structures

10:10 AM | 2022-09-21

Anthony Philp

Partner | Maples Group

Anthony is a partner of Maples and Calder's Finance team in the Maples Group's Cayman Islands office. Anthony has an extensive and broad range of experience in debt capital markets, corporate financing and asset financing. He regularly advises hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on capital commitment fund financing as well as borrowers and lenders on aircraft financing. He also advises on CLO and structured product transactions and secured and unsecured banking transactions, in addition to regulatory, general corporate and commercial matters and all types of listings on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange.

Georgina Pullinger

Appleby

ABC's of Fund Finance

9:05 AM | 2022-09-21

Georgina Pullinger

Partner | Appleby

Georgina Pullinger is a Partner in Appleby’s Cayman Islands office, who specialises in banking and finance and general corporate matters. She has extensive experience in all aspects of finance transactions, with a particular focus on fund finance.

Prior to joining Appleby, Georgina worked in project finance at Norton Rose Fulbright in both Australia and London, where she also undertook a six-month secondment at Citibank.

Georgina is ranked by Chambers as Band 3 in “Corporate & Finance” and by Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Partner – Banking, Finance & Capital Markets”.

Natasha Puri

Lloyds Bank

ABC's of Fund Finance

9:05 AM | 2022-09-21

Natasha Puri

Director | Lloyds Bank

Natasha is a Vice President on the Sponsors & Structured Finance team based in New York at Lloyds Bank. In her role, Natasha is responsible for the origination and structuring of fund financing facilities and hedging products for private equity, real estate, infrastructure, secondaries and private debt managers. Her experience includes finance structuring across traditional capital call lines, hybrid, and NAV facilities, as well as fund-level FX solutions.

Natasha is the Founder and Global Chair of the FFA’s Diversity in Fund Finance Group. Natasha started the initiative in 2017, and has championed its efforts to grow into a global committee, driving DE&I engagement within the organization. She was recognized by the FFA with the Rising Star Award in 2020 and the inaugural recipient of the Diversity in Fund Finance Award in 2021 for her outstanding contributions to the industry. Within Lloyds Bank, Natasha is an active member of the local DE&I committee and was recognized as a DE&I Role Model.

Prior to joining Lloyds in 2017, Natasha worked at PwC for ~5 years where she was a Senior Associate in the Alternative Investments practice. Natasha is a Certified Public Accountant in New York with a BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University.

Guy Simpson

Bridge Bank

Jan Sysel

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

The Term Sheet and the Credit Agreement - Session I

1:50 PM | 2022-09-21

Jan Sysel

Partner | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Jan Sysel is a partner in the Corporate Department and the Finance Practice, resident in New York.

Mr. Sysel represents sponsors, borrowers, arrangers and lenders on a wide variety of financing transactions primarily in connection with fund formation, as well as leveraged acquisitions, spinoffs, recapitalizations and restructurings, across a broad range of industries. He has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating, documenting and executing complex financings, including syndicated senior facilities, mezzanine facilities and private debt placements. His work includes unsecured and secured first and second lien facilities, both cashflow-based and asset-based, with particular focus on fund subscription facilities and other types of investment fund leverage.

Mr. Sysel serves as a member of the Fund Finance Association (FFA) US Advisory Council, frequently speaks at FFA and other industry conferences, and is a mentor on the FFA's NextGen platform supporting junior market participants.

Mr. Sysel previously worked on secondment at Goldman Sachs, where he advised on loan transactions for private wealth management clientele. Prior to joining Fried Frank, he practiced corporate law in the Czech Republic for several years and served in the Czech Army as a staff attorney at the Litigation Department of the Czech Ministry of Defense.

Albert Tan

Haynes Boone

Market Update

4:00 PM | 2022-09-21

Albert Tan

Partner and Co-Head of Fund Finance | Haynes Boone

Albert Tan is a Partner and Co-Head of the Global Fund Finance Group with Haynes and Boone, LLP. Albert also currently on Haynes Boone’s Executive Committee, Board of Directors and Partners Compensation Committee.

Albert has represented investment and commercial banks, as agents and arrangers in more than 600 subscription secured credit facilities with total value of over $200 billion to Asia, US, Europe, Latin America and global real estate, infrastructure, debt, buyout and energy private equity funds, including structuring and documenting some of the first subscription financing to real estate private equity funds in Japan, Greater China, Singapore and Korea and to some of the largest global infrastructure funds and Asia-focused buyout funds; and during the global financial crises of 2007-2008, Albert was one of few fund finance attorneys who represented lenders in the successful enforcement of subscription financing defaults against PE funds and their investors.

The National Law Journal selected Albert to its inaugural list of Finance, Banking and Capital Markets Trailblazers in 2019, Euromoney Expert Guides, Euromoney Institutional Investor 2012, listed him as a “Leading Practitioner” in its Guide to Leading Practitioners: International Private Equity, U.S., and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association recognized Albert as a 2021 MCCA Rainmaker for his outstanding leadership, business acumen, passion and dedication to proactive client development.

Albert serves as a member of the US Advisory Committee and Asia Pacific Executive Committee of the Fund Finance Association.

Albert received his BA from San Diego State University and his JD and LLM from Southern Methodist University and Georgetown University; and speaks Chinese (Mandarin).

Mary Touchstone

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Private Equity Fund Structures

10:10 AM | 2022-09-21

Mary Touchstone

Partner and Head of Fund Finance Practice | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Mary Touchstone is a Partner and Head of the Fund Finance Practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Mary has helped to establish Simpson Thacher as a global leader in the representation of financial sponsors in fund financings. She is widely acknowledged as a leading lawyer in the subscription credit facility market and represents many of the world’s preeminent sponsors of private equity, real estate, energy, infrastructure, debt and other investment funds on the largest and most complex fund facilities.

Mary and her team regularly work on a wide variety of fund level financings, including secured and unsecured subscription (or capital call) facilities, with borrowing capacity for the fund as well as its parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and portfolio companies; fund guarantees and other credit support of portfolio level financings; NAV-based facilities and hybrid variations provided as aftercare facilities for funds that are later in their life cycles with less uncalled capital and more portfolio asset value; credit facilities for managed account vehicles; employee co-investment loan programs; management lines to investment advisers for working capital purposes; and liquidity financings for registered funds.

Anna-Lise Wisdom

Conyers

Fund Documentation and Due Diligence

11:15 AM | 2022-09-21

Market Update

4:00 PM | 2022-09-21

Anna-Lise Wisdom

Partner | Conyers

Anna-Lise Wisdom is a partner in the Corporate department in the Cayman Islands office of Conyers. Anna-Lise joined Conyers in 2022. Anna-Lise specialises in fund finance, including subscription finance, fund-level finance and management fee facilities.

Anna-Lise regularly acts as Cayman counsel to leading financial institutions active in the North American and other markets in credit facilities ranging from tens of millions to billions of dollars in lender commitments.

Anna-Lise has been rated as a “rising star” in banking and financial services in the IFLR1000 rankings since 2019 and has been recognised in The Legal 500 Caribbean rankings since 2015. Anna-Lise has been Recognised in the 2022 edition of Chambers Global (corporate finance). Clients highlight her as having “an excellent fund finance practice” and “a calming force on transactions.” Anna-Lise has spoken on numerous industry panels, and has lectured in the fund finance space. She has also contributed to Global Legal Insight’s Fund Finance publication. She also regularly participates in industry working groups in respect of funds and fund finance matters.

FFA US University 1.0

Curriculum subject to change. Updated 9/13/2022

Brad Boland

Kiel Bowen

Vicky Du

Jeff Johnston

George Jovanoski

Mike Mascia

Anthony Philp

Georgina Pullinger

Natasha Puri

Guy Simpson

Jan Sysel

Albert Tan

Mary Touchstone

Anna-Lise Wisdom