This week Charlotte partner Trent Lindsay and associate Morgan Dennis connect with Michael Sinclair, Executive Vice President & Head of Fund Banking at M&T Bank.
This week we connect with Guillaume Hartog, who heads the Subscription Finance team within BNP Paribas, covering EMEA and the U.S. Prior to that, he was part of the bank’s Leverage Finance team in London.
This week we connect with Kevin Lynch, a partner in the Arthur Cox Finance Group in Dublin. Kevin has extensive experience in banking and finance transactions, with an emphasis on domestic and cross-border finance transactions and financial services. Kevin acts for a wide range of financial institutions, funds (both Irish and non-Irish domiciled), corporates and corporate service providers (including AIFMs and Depositaries), advising on funds lending transactions including subscription call facilities and real estate funds financing. Kevin’s practice also includes asset/property finance, acquisition finance, derivative products and structured finance.
This week we connect with Arnaud Arrecgros, a Finance partner in Maples and Calder (Luxembourg), the Maples Group's law firm in Luxembourg. Arnaud has over 13 years of experience advising on cross-border financing and banking transactions, including fund finance deals in connection with the setting up of bridge and capital commitment facilities, corporate debt facilities, acquisition, asset and real estate financing and restructurings, and securitisations, as well as capital markets matters.
This week we connect with Pramit Sheth, a Managing Director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency, where he manages the Funds group. Pramit has over 13 years of experience in the credit rating industry. Before leading the Funds group, Pramit was a senior analyst in KBRA’s CMBS analytical team, where he led ratings analysis on a wide range of complex real estate transactions and helped refine KBRA’s rating methodologies in that dynamic market.
This week we break with convention and interview our own Holly Loftis in the latest installment in our Player Profile series featuring leaders in the fund finance industry. While we’ve from time to time highlighted our counterparts at law firms elsewhere, we decided it’s high time to add a U.S. lawyer’s perspective to the discussion. Holly is a Counsel in Cadwalader’s Fund Finance practice.
This week we bring you an interview with Signature Bank’s Charles Newcomb. Charles is a Managing Director in the Fund Banking Division at Signature Bank. He is responsible for the origination and structuring of debt products for private equity-style funds across all asset sectors.
This week we connect with Alex Bolton for a sweeping discussion that covers competing in a crowded lending market and the outlook for fund-level asset-backed lending, as well as his observations on deal pricing. Alex is a senior banker in the New York fund finance team of National Australia Bank.
We kicked off the Player Profile series earlier this year to connect our readers with leaders in the fund finance industry. This week we catch up with Gail Boyle on the current state of the market, career advice and the fund finance outlook. Gail is a senior banker in the Fund Finance space for MUFG Union Bank. Her clients and her practice are primarily centered in the Western U.S., and focuses on banking of Private Equity GPs via their specific fund borrowers – a highly successful, growing practice for the bank.
Keeping the focus on Asia, this week we profile Fi Dinh and delve into her perspectives on private capital markets and fund finance in the region, capital flows and life in Singapore. Fi is a Director of Investment Industry Finance (IIF) and Insurance Sector Finance (ISF), Asia-Pacific at ING, based in Singapore. She joined ING in 2018 to help expand ING’s fund financing business into the Asia-Pacific region. The ING IIF team operates in key financial hubs for the fund management industry, including New York, London, Luxembourg and Singapore, and provides and arranges fund financing facilities to listed and unlisted funds managed by institutional asset management firms and leading financial sponsors. Before ING, Fi spent nearly a decade at Barclays in London and Dubai, where she was Director, Financial Institutions Group and helped build a successful Private Equity coverage franchise supporting financial sponsors and alternative asset managers in EMEA and the U.S.