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Leaders Moving Business Forward with Shirmila Ramasamy of the World Bank
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Roadmap to Joint Venture Agreements: Legal and Accounting Considerations
Exit Strategies for GOVCONs with Set Aside Contracts: 2021 Insights and Lessons Learned from Business Owners and Advisors
M&A Strategies for the Acquisition of Insolvent/Financially Distressed Targets
Meritas Capability Webinar - Transactions in a COVID-19 Environment
Nota Bene Episode 72: Space Law: License, Launch, Finance, Insurance, and Responsible Space Stewardship with Brian Weimer
[WEBINAR] Building a Solar Energy Project in 2018
Cameras Roll on Spicer and Miller Discussing 2016 Entertainment Trends and Looking Forward to 2017
Financing Challenges for Small Cap Companies
Our second quarter 2025 corporate venture capital (CVC) survey indicators continue to show challenging market conditions. However, valuations are on the rise in surveyed transactions. In this survey, we track investment...more
The growth of High Net Worth Individual (“HNWI”) allocations to alternative investments is a hot topic in fund finance. In what is widely acknowledged to be a challenging fundraising environment, fund managers have focused...more
The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”) conducted its license lottery for social equity applicants on June 5, 2025. Lottery winners received preliminary approval and must secure a business location and, in many...more
It seems like such a simple question. Who owns data centers? Ownership structures in the digital economy are more varied than might appear on the surface. While the largest computing and cloud service providers, such as...more
Competition between the private credit and broadly syndicated loan (BSL) markets is intensifying, with developments on both sides blurring the distinctions between the two products. One of these distinctive features is the...more
In entering into a fund financing, both the Lender and the Fund have expectations that the relationship will be a success. The Lender is appreciative of the association, and the Fund is confident in its ability to raise...more
As was briefly touched upon in a prior Fund Finance Friday article “Borrowing Base/Coverage Ratio Approaches in Subscription Finance Facilities,” a subscription facility which uses the borrowing base approach looks at each...more
Executive Summary - Over the last several years, a need has arisen in the fund finance market, which caters to private equity, venture capital, family offices, and other investment funds (“Funds”) and their sponsors, for...more
Section 23A and Super 23A can create additional complications for lenders in the fund finance market. Intended to protect the stability of financial institutions by restricting transactions with affiliates, Section 23A and...more
“Increasing allocations will come down to cash flows,” according to Bain & Co. in its recent Global Private Equity Report 2024. The practical impact of net cash flow position for buyout fund investors, reflected in DPI, will...more
Venture capital financing activity in 2023 contracted for the second consecutive year in the face of rising interest rates, concerns regarding the trajectory of the economy and continued geopolitical tension. VC-backed...more
About a year ago, we published “Term Loan Solutions in Fund Finance,” which ended up being a popular article on Fund Finance Friday. Since then we have seen lenders, sponsors, law firms and rating agencies become more...more
Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands are two of the world’s leading fund formation jurisdictions, and account for a large portion of the private equity funds domicile market. Most private equity fund structures are comprised of...more
While Chris van Heerden’s recent article gave some cause for optimism over the fundraising environment for 2024, for now on the ground we are continuing to see significantly longer lead times before funds hit their target...more
New Law No. 14,801/2024 creates infrastructure debentures, changes rules for incentivized debentures and investment funds in the sector, including tax guidelines, and promotes incentives for raising funds through the issuance...more
On December 27, 2023, the US federal banking regulators proposed reporting requirements for bank loans and commitments to the fund finance sector. This change reflects not only the rapid growth in this sector but also the...more
When an investor chooses a private equity fund, it is a calculated gamble on that fund’s general partner and more specifically its managing principals and the members of the investment team (the “Key Persons”). The Key...more
With the recent downgrades issued to several banks by Moody’s and S&P in August, as well as the recent banking turmoil which occurred earlier this year, and the flurry of assignment activity in the market, lenders and...more
Funds make use of series partnerships across jurisdictions to allow for segregation of partnership interests, assets, distributions and operations into separate series or classes. A particular quirk of Cayman series...more
Is evergreen the new black? It may be. Each day new limited partnership agreements come across our desks, sent to us by our bank clients who ask us to read and analyze these documents alongside them to determine the most...more
It’s the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend here in the United States. Given the holiday weekend, this installment of our Sovereign Immunity Series will be light, as we will cover just two states: South Dakota and Tennessee....more
We are now only a few weeks out from the inaugural Fund Finance Association 2023 Global Leadership Summit, which will bring together sponsors, borrowers and their advisers for what promises to be an interesting and productive...more
Today we release the ninth installment of our Sovereign Immunity Series. In this installment we cover Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and South Carolina to give you a high-level overview of sovereign immunity in...more
PEI’s Fundraising Report 2023, published this week, provides a timely update on the state of play in private market capital formation. The feedback loop conundrum facing private markets emerges as one of the main themes in...more
Women in Fund Finance hosted a panel discussion recently, co-hosted by National Australia Bank and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, which was held at NAB’s beautiful new office in midtown Manhattan. This discussion featured a...more