Save the date! The Fund Finance Association has released the dates for the 2024 Global Symposium.
The 13th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium will take place February 26 - February 29, 2024 in Miami Beach, Florida.
You can learn more about room blocks and sponsorship opportunities for the 2024 conference here.
As the secondaries market continues to grow and increase in complexity, we have noticed an uptick in interest among our clients in selling (and buying) loan participations. Participation arrangements can be a powerful tool for institutions on either side of the transaction – sellers can free up capital on their balance sheet, pare back funding obligations and reduce exposure to certain borrowers or industries, and buyers can get the economic benefit of a loan without having to manage a direct relationship with the borrower or comply with (typically more stringent) restrictions and consent requirements for direct assignments. Plus, while the transaction is undoubtedly complex, both parties can leverage the Loan Syndications and Trading Association’s form documentation to keep attention focused on those provisions most important to their institution and the specific transaction. Done right, a bespoke participation arrangement lets everyone leave the field a winner (trophies optional).
On July 27, 2023, the U.S. federal prudential bank regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) proposed new capital requirements for large banking organizations. The FRB also proposed to make certain adjustments to the G-SIB surcharge. Over the last week, we’ve received a number of inquiries from banks and buy-side clients about this proposal – in particular, about its effect on banks’ risk-based capital, including for fund finance transactions, and capital optimization strategies, such as capital relief trades and synthetic securitizations.
Cadwalader partners Brian Foster, Samantha Hutchinson and Patrick Calves recently wrote a Private Funds CFO article on the use of hybrid fund finance solutions by continuation funds.
You can access their article, “Continuation Funds and the Hybrid Solution,” here.
Cadwalader partners Wes Misson and Samantha Hutchinson contributed a chapter, “Fund Finance: Past, Present and Future,” to The International Comparative Legal Guide – Alternative Investment Funds 2023.
Cadwalader Fund Finance partner Mathan Navaratnam has been selected as a “Legal Rising Star” by Private Equity International (PEI) Group’s Private Funds CFO as part of its list celebrating up-and-comers who are going above and beyond for their clients and those who will steer the future of the private funds industry.
The FFA has announced agenda details for the fifth annual Asia-Pacific Fund Finance Symposium on October 12 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong.
The FFA has just published the first issue of the NextGen Quarterly Newsletter. The issue covers NextGen programs and activities from Q2 2023 and provides a list of upcoming events.
You can sign up for the newsletter here.
Jeff Jaenicke has joined Mizuho Americas as Managing Director, Head of Private Equity LP Fund Financing within the Equity Division.
Dominic Goh has joined SMBC as an Executive Director to lead NAV financing within the Fund Finance Solutions Department in the New York office.