In today’s Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Cadwalader's Samantha Hutchinson hosts Stephen Quinn of 17Capital to discuss liquidity solutions during the COVID-19 era.
In this week’s FFF: Industry Conversations, Taylor Johnson of Nuveen Investments joins Cadwalader’s Mike Mascia and offers his fund finance and property-level market observations, including where he sees gaps in available lender-side supply and where he thinks banks could innovate to bring value to fund borrowers in the current environment.
In this week’s FFF: Industry Conversations, Mike Mascia and Wes Misson of Cadwalader walk through Cadwalader’s 2020 U.S. portfolio data, including comparing Q2 medium spreads to Q1, looking at how tenors compressed in Q2, and presenting slides covering a host of other data metrics depicting how COVID-19 has (and has not) impacted the market.
In today’s video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Mike Mascia of Cadwalader hosts Mike Breaux, Director at Stifel Bank, who gives an update on the bank’s fund finance practice and his market observations; Tess Virmani, Associate General Counsel at the LSTA, who discusses the LIBOR transition and incorporating ESG standards in loan transactions; and Tina Meigh of the Maples Group, who offers a practical viewpoint from the trenches on obtaining Cayman registrations to comply with the Private Funds Law.
In today’s video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Mike Mascia of Cadwalader hosts Alexandra Woodcock and Alex Last of Mourant to discuss the Cayman Islands Private Funds Law and its impact for lenders, and then Terry Hatton, Managing Director at MUFG, gives an excellent update on what the bank has seen in the first half of 2020 and what it is forecasting for the rest of the year.
In today’s video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Mike Mascia of Cadwalader covers off the Fund Finance legal updates occurring over the past two weeks; Graham Bippart, the Editor at Private Funds CFO, who just completed a 10-part series on Subscription Facilities, discusses his funds finance research and writing; and Zac Barnett of Fund Finance Partners and Mike have a wide-ranging conversation about fund finance activity levels, the market segments where FFP is looking for lenders to finance prospective transactions, and their forecasts and predictions for the remainder of the year and beyond. Additionally, Whitney Namm Pollack, the Executive Director of Project Sunshine, discusses the great work her organization is doing to help hospitalized children and how FFA constituent firms can contribute.
In today’s video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Pratap Dasgupta of Macquarie provides an update on the secondaries and greater NAV financing markets, Rich Young of Cadwalader discusses his next career chapter, Michelle Bolingbroke announces her more formal role with the Fund Finance Association, and Ken Bigelow, Managing Partner at Sionic, introduces his firm’s software solution for banks that is specifically customized and designed for subscription finance. Cadwalader’s Mike Mascia hosts.
In today’s video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Tim Hicks, Partner at Cadwalader, provides a market update on the subscription facility sector, and Pramit Sheth, Managing Director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency, gives color on the types of fund finance transactions they are rating and what they are seeing in the market post-COVID. Additionally, Laura Clark, the CEO of the United Way of the Central Carolinas, discusses the tremendous uptick in community needs, what the United Way is doing to try and help our challenged neighbors from both a social justice and COVID response perspective, and how we can all contribute and help. Cadwalader’s Mike Mascia hosts.
In today’s video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Charlie Owens, Managing Director at Signature Bank, gives an update on what the bank is seeing and doing in the market currently; Ken Pierce, newly minted CEO of Lockton Capital Markets, describes the NAV-financing his firm is structuring and placing with insurance company lenders; and Cadwalader’s Sam Hutchinson gives an update on the European market, with a deep dive into the rapidly expanding and evolving NAV-lending space.
In today’s FFF: Industry Conversations, we added video and connected with a host of fund finance market participants. Nick Mitra of Natixis joins to give a market update, Tina Meigh of the Maples Group provides an update on the Fund Finance Association, Rory Smith of Brickfield Recruiting offers observations on the hiring market, and Jeff Nagle of Cadwalader summarizes the best practices for LIBOR transition proposed by the ARRC last week. In addition, we feature a short but important discussion with Leslie Gordon, President & CEO of Food Bank For New York City, on the growing hunger challenges presented by COVID-19. Cadwalader’s Mike Mascia hosts and also provides some data from our practice for 2020-to-date to try and forecast transaction volumes for the summer.