More than 450 leaders from the financial services, investment management, private equity and legal communities attended Cadwalader’s fourth annual Finance Forum yesterday at the Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte. 

Josh Stein, the Attorney General of North Carolina, gave the opening remarks. For the fund finance panel, Wes Misson, Tim Hicks and Sam Hutchinson presented a data analysis on the 2019 Cadwalader transaction portfolio. We’ll provide the substance of the data snapshot in upcoming editions of FFF. Mike Mascia also interviewed Judith Erwin, the founder and CEO of Grasshopper Bank, the first de novo bank to obtain New York OCC approval since the financial crisis. Other panels covered the LIBOR transition, middle market corporate lending, key takeaways from Volcker 2.0, the bank credit process, CLOs and the commercial real estate space. Images from the event are below.