The Private Bank at Citizens is hiring a Relationship Manager who will be responsible for creating new and expanding existing relationships in the private equity vertical and other business verticals within the Citizens Private Bank. The full listing is here.
To celebrate the end of summer and recharge our batteries for an exciting and busy fall season, Fund Finance Friday will resume publication next week (September 8).
In the meantime, we wish our U.S. clients and friends the best for their Labor Day holiday; and a safe and restful weekend to those around the world. On behalf of everyone at Cadwalader, we thank all of you for your continued interest in and support of Fund Finance Friday.
The majority of subscription facilities are secured by the right to call capital and receive capital contributions from the fund’s investors and the bank deposit account into which those capital contribution proceeds are deposited by such investors. Focusing on the deposit account, frequently called the collateral account, there are two methods provided by Article 9 of the UCC for perfecting a lender’s security interest in such account: (1) the collateral account is maintained with the lender or (2) the lender and the fund enter into a control agreement with the bank that maintains the collateral account.
We have a final answer to the question of whether a term loan is a security. Yesterday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court’s decision in the Kirschner Case that a term loan is not a security.
On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to implement a number of new requirements for private funds, including requiring private funds to issue quarterly fee and performance reports and to perform annual audits.
In this article we look at the lender's right to challenge a sponsor’s valuation of their investments in the context of a NAV-backed financing. This right to challenge is a relatively recent development in these transactions, which has come in and out of vogue depending on the general state of the market, with a notable rise at the beginning of the pandemic due to concerns over the accuracy of valuations in the near term.
A fund is a living, breathing organism that aims to achieve much more than being a vessel for a subscription credit facility. The limited partnership agreement of the fund may have to be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time to address changes in the regulatory environment or legal requirements.