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Videos
'Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations' — 9 Minutes of Fund Finance with Jeff Maier
October 23, 2020In this week’s Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Jeff Maier joins Mike Mascia and discusses demand and deal structures for management fee lines and GP facilities.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
DOJ Sues Google for Alleged Antitrust Practices, Expected to be Lengthy Court Battle
October 20, 2020Antitrust partner Joel Mitnick appeared on the TV network’s “Closing Bell” segment to discuss the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Google.
Related Attorney(s): Joel Mitnick
Related Practice(s): Global Litigation
'Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations' — Catching Up with SMBC’S Sammy Asoli
October 16, 2020In this week’s Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Sammy Asoli, the newly minted Global Head of Subscription Secured Finance at SMBC, joins Mike Mascia and discusses his new role, virtual leadership, what they are seeing in the market, predictions for 2021 and taking garden leave during a global pandemic.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
'Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations' — Stepping Into Q4 with Charles Newcomb
October 2, 2020In this week’s Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, long-time fund finance banker Charles Newcomb, Managing Director at Signature Bank, joins Mike Mascia and gives his thoughts on current market conditions, his forecasts for the 4th quarter and beyond, and his experience with return to work.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
'Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations' — FFA ‘Virtual Week’ Update with Nick Mitra
September 18, 2020Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
'Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations' — Future Gazing with Avardi Partners’ Sarah Lobbardi
September 11, 2020Related Attorney(s): Jeremy Cross
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
'Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations' — A Crash Course in SOFR
August 28, 2020In this week’s FFF: Industry Conversations, Jeff Nagle, a Cadwalader partner and member of our LIBOR Preparedness Team, teaches a SOFR 101 session. He covers all the high-level things you need to know, including how SOFR is actually calculated, how it differs from LIBOR, what its variations are and which are best, how margins will be impacted, what the expected market conventions are, and what comparable rates exist for non-dollar denominated loans.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia, Jeffrey Nagle
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance, LIBOR Preparedness Team
'Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations' – A Borrower’s Perspective
August 7, 2020In this week’s FFF: Industry Conversations, Taylor Johnson of Nuveen Investments joins Cadwalader’s Mike Mascia and discusses 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.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
‘Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations’ – 1H 2020 by the Numbers
July 31, 2020In this week’s FFF: Industry Conversations, Mike Mascia and Wes Misson of Cadwalader walk through Cadwalader’s 2020 US 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 has (and has not) impacted the market.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia, Wesley Misson
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
‘Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations’ – License and (Cayman) Registration, Please
July 24, 2020In today’s video version of Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations, Mike Mascia of Cadwalader hosts Mike Breaux, Director at Steifel Bank, who gives an update on the bank’s fund finance practice and his market observations; Tess Viryani, 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.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
‘Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations’ – August 7th Looms
July 27, 2020In 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 a 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.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
‘Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations’ – Activity Levels Remain Robust
July 10, 2020In 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 that just completed a ten 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 the Project Sunshine, discusses the great work her organization is doing to help hospitalized children and how FFA constituent firms can contribute.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
‘Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations’ – Volume Up
June 26, 2020In 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.
Related Attorney(s): Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
LGBTQ Rights and COVID-19: Lessons from the Past, Opportunities for the Future
June 23, 2020In celebration of Pride Month, the Cadwalader Center for Diversity & Inclusion (CCDI) hosted a Civil Rights Series webinar titled "Pride With GLAD - LGBTQ Rights and COVID-19: Lessons from the Past, Opportunities for the Future." Guest speakers Janson Wu and Bennett Klein of GLAD, a civil rights organization focused on LGBT communities, will discuss the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Related Page(s): Diversity & Inclusion
‘Fund Finance Friday: Industry Conversations’ – Market Update, Ratings and Community Needs
June 19, 2020In 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.
Related Attorney(s): Tim Hicks, Michael Mascia
Related Practice(s): Fund Finance
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