Brickfield Recruiting published an article on the state of the Fund Finance labor markets this week – “Fund Finance recruitment in 2022: A busy market ahead.” As the only talent search company focused completely on fund finance, Brickfield addresses the sourcing and hiring of fund finance professionals amid a growing demand for quality candidates. The article is available here.
Cadwalader Fund Finance partner Samantha Hutchinson, who is Head of Fund Finance, UK, has been shortlisted as part of the Law.com International and Legal Week’s 2022 "Women, Influence & Power in Law" (WIPL) UK Awards in the "Innovative Leaders" category.
First off, thank you to all of our clients for a phenomenal 2021 and for all the well-wishes I received from so many in our industry after taking on Head of U.S. Fund Finance duties earlier this month. I'm very excited about this expanded role and just as excited for Sam Hutchinson, who takes on Head of UK Fund Finance duties.
The FFA and Diversity in Fund Finance have announced the 2022 FFA DEI Emerging Leaders: Cadwalader associate Fiona Cheng and Haynes Boone associate Robin Ladd. The 2022 recipients were judged on their overall contributions to furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the fund finance market, their workplace, and/or the broader community.
The 11th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium will take place February 16-18 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. The FFA has since released its COVID FAQs for the event. For anyone interested in learning more about the policy and related info, please visit here.
The next webinar in the Wildgen Fund Finance Series is scheduled for Thursday, January 27 and focuses on 2022 Market Perspectives. For more information, click here.
Mondaq hosted a webinar earlier this week on Cayman Islands fund structures with panelists Agnes Molnar and Richard Mansi, partners at Travers Thorp Alberga; Dave Wasserman, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley; and Parisa Clovis, partner at Kirkland & Ellis. The panelists discussed a range of topics, including the current state of the fund finance market, the increasing number of multi-fund structures and the challenges they bring, NAV-oriented funding, and private credit considerations. For more information and a link to the webinar recording, click here.
The role of the various management/administrative players in a Luxembourg fund structure has become increasingly complicated, so this week Fund Finance Friday took the opportunity to talk with Antoine Fortier Grethen, head of fund finance and partner at SJL Jimenez Lunz, about these roles, how they are relevant to a fund finance transaction and why they may sometimes be overlooked or misunderstood. Antoine is a very experienced fund finance lawyer and also lectures in contract law, business law and finance transactions at the University of Lorraine, so we are very grateful to him for taking the time for this very enlightening discussion.