A record breaking 850 financial industry leaders and professionals from around the country participated in Cadwalader's eighth annual Finance Forum in Charlotte this week!
It was great to meet all together for a day of networking and insightful discussions on the latest market trends and opportunities across various sectors, including commercial real estate, fund finance, leveraged finance, middle market lending, private credit, securitization and structured finance.
We are grateful to our speakers, clients and all attendees who took the time to participate in the event's many dynamic discussions and networking.
Next week's FFF will include more coverage of the Finance Forum. In the meantime, please enjoy these photos!
Women in Fund Finance is a sub-committee of the Fund Finance Association focusing on increasing the engagement, recognition and promotion of women leaders in the alternative investment fund finance industry. In this ‘Macro Economic Round-Up’, the European WFF Committee has reached out to market leaders to share their views on certain current affairs which are bound to have an impact on the macro-economic in the near future, and by way of default, which will also shape the fund finance market as we head into the fourth quarter of 2024.
The market for financing pools of interests in private equity funds and private credit funds continues to sizzle, with new lenders joining the market and competition on pricing leading to a tightening of spreads for the most sought after deals. We are regularly having conversations with business principals, risk officers and internal lawyers at new and existing lenders looking to better understand this market. How to underwrite secondaries is a particular focus for new lenders, and is a topic we covered at yesterday’s Fund Finance Association University 2.0.