The Fund Finance Association University’s inaugural two-day session kicked off earlier this week in New York at the Wells Fargo office.
The Fund Finance Association Next Generation (“NextGen”) initiative brings together young professionals from funds, banks and law firms from within the fund finance market.
Below is a look at what we are reading this week outside of the four corners of Fund Finance.
Here are updates to our Fund Finance Calendar.
An area of common interest to lenders, to the funds, GPs and managers to whom they make facilities available, and to the investors who invest in the funds and will ultimately be required to pay in their capital or loan commitments to repay any Fund indebtedness is compliance with all applicable rules and laws covering sanctions.
This week, we’re excited to bring you an interview with Edoardo Levy, Founder and Managing Principal of BZH Capital Partners. We cover Edoardo's time at Investec and the buildout of that firm’s U.S. platform. Then we get into his new venture and his vision for democratizing private capital investment. Prior to founding BZH Capital Partners, Edoardo oversaw the development of the U.S. secondaries and funds of funds lending business at Investec. Today, he is hard at work launching a new fund.
Judith Erwin, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Grasshopper Bank, is a confirmed speaker for this year’s Cadwalader Finance Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina on October 17.
Institutional Investor published an article earlier this week titled "The Faulty Metric at the Center of Private Equity’s Value Proposition."
Private Funds CFO recently published an article titled “Why preferred equity could be PE’s next battleground.”
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Ogier fund finance specialist Catharina von Finckenhagen has returned to the Cayman Islands as a dual-qualified Luxembourg advocate and Cayman attorney, providing combined Luxembourg law and Cayman law advice from a U.S. time zone. James York joined the NatWest Markets Funds Finance team as a VP earlier this month. |