The following individuals are on the move in the fund finance industry: 

Congratulations to Izzy Frelinghuysen on joining L Catterton! Izzy joins the team as an Associate, where she will lead the fund finance efforts, manage fund-level financing, and support treasury operations. Prior to joining L Catterton, Izzy worked as an Associate on the Financial Sponsors team at Lloyds Bank, where she was a highly regarded member of the New York office.

Congratulations to Jeannie Kim who has joined CIBC as Executive Director, focused on structured equity finance origination. In her role, Jeannie will be providing liquidity solutions for margin loans, secondaries, and single fund NAV financing. She was previously at Macquarie Group where she was the Global Relationship Manager for Fund Finance.

Irish Law Firm Matheson LLP Announces Senior Fund Finance Appointments

Matheson LLP have recently appointed Gearoid Murphy and Lisa Tait as partners in the firm’s Fund Finance practice. Gearoid rejoins the firm from the London office of Latham & Watkins LLP having previously worked within the firm’s Fund Finance practice and has a wealth of experience advising financial institutions, asset managers and sponsors on high value cross-border fund finance transactions including subscription line / capital call facilities, asset backed loans / NAV facilities and hybrid facilities to private market funds located in the EU, US and APAC. Lisa has recently been promoted to partner, having joined Matheson LLP in 2024. Prior to joining Matheson LLP, Lisa worked in Clifford Chance LLP as well as other top 5 Irish firms. Lisa has extensive experience in fund finance, advising financial institutions, asset managers and sponsors on finance transactions involving regulated and unregulated Irish fund structures. Lisa has recently worked on a number of finance transactions involving Ireland’s newly revised Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) structure. Lisa attended the inaugural Women in Fund Finance industry gathering in Dublin last year.