Luxembourg law firm Wildgen will host the 7th edition of its Fund Finance webinar series on April 22 with a focus on GP and Management Fee Facilities. Wildgen Partner Michael Mbayi will moderate, and panelists include Richard Fletcher of Macfarlanes, Brian Foster of Cadwalader, Amira Hajili of Natixis, William Lamain of Raiffeisen and Emily Rose of Silicon Valley Bank.
Women in Fund Finance will be hosting two panels in its upcoming series on SPACs: “What Is Going On in the SPAC Market?” on April 21 and “The Nuts and Bolts of SPACs” on April 22.
A recent Private Equity International podcast featured PEI editors in a panel discussion about the development of environmental, social, and corporate governance ("ESG")-linked subscription credit lines where the sustainability performance of the assets in the fund is directly related to the facility's costs.
Societe Generale is hiring an associate for its subscription finance team.
Bridge Bank is hiring for a Senior Vice President in its Equity Fund Resources group for an origination role.
The initiative to draft a code that would unify commercial transactions across U.S. states came about in 1942. The drafters went to work in a remarkable setting that, aside from a global war, was marked by clashes of ideologies growing out of the Great Depression and the New Deal era. The group spent most of the next decade completing a comprehensive published version of the Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”) for presentation to the states and then the initial process of enactment by the states continued through 1968. Given this backdrop, the origin and development of the UCC has spawned a seemingly endless supply of legal research material. We set all of that to the side here and boil things down to what we see as the must-know points on the UCC for fund finance bankers.
Following the Cadwalader Fund Finance Team’s recognition at The Drawdown's Private Equity Service Provider Awards earlier this year, the publication’s editors sat down to talk with partner Sam Hutchinson about the group’s London team.
Graham Bippart, the Editor at Private Funds CFO, this week published a cover story for the April/May edition that provides in-depth coverage and analysis of the emergence of ESG-linked subscription facilities.
Join Women in Fund Finance on April 8 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT for a discussion among four industry leaders who will take a look at the current trends of venture capital and how the venture market is completely transforming private equity. Registration is available here.
Women in Fund Finance will host a virtual fireside chat with author Alice C. Early on April 13 at 11 a.m. EDT. For more information or to register, click here.
Private Equity International this week published an article discussing how COVID has changed the landscape of key negotiation points between GPs and LPs.