4th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium 2018 - London | Fund Finance Association | 24 October 2018 | The Landmark Hotel London, 222 Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 6JQ, UK

The event brings together investors, fund managers, bankers and lawyers for a day of education and networking within the fund finance market. More than 400 industry professionals from 135 different firms attended the FFA's 2017 European Symposium. In past years, FFA Symposium topics have included discussion on European Investment and Financing Activity, Women in Fund Finance: Status in Equality, Global Perspectives on Fund Finance and others.

2018 Speakers

Hamid Aguerbal
Senior structurer and originator in the Fund Financing team

Robert Andrews
Partner in the banking group, Ashurst

Ahlem Ben Gueblia
London based International Trade and Transactional Banking team

Jeremy Berchem
Group partner and Group Head of the Corporate team at Appleby

Haakon Blakstad
Partner, Validus

Peter Brown
Head of Funds Banking of the RBS International Funds Banking

Omar Chaudhary
Fund financing for the Merchant Banking Division

Zoë Connor
Partner in the Finance Group of the London office of Haynes and Boone

Jeremy Cross
Vastly experienced funds finance lawyer

Paul Cunningham
Chief Financial Officer

Daniel Donnelly
Member of Wells Fargo’s rates and FX solutions team

Kate Downey
Corporate partner resident in Fried Frank’s London office

Robert Duggan
Managing Partner of our London office and specialist in all areas of corporate, banking and finance work

Christopher Elvin
Preqin in 2006

Richard Fletcher
Partner in Macfarlanes finance team

James Fox
Partner within Appleby’s Corporate department in Jersey

Ron D. Franklin
Co-head of the Firm’s Global Finance Group

Gavin Friend
Senior Market Strategist in the Economic Research area of National Australia Bank

Mono Ganguli
Leads Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Global Markets coverage of Financial Sponsor clients

Arnaud Garel-Galais
Responsible for sales, business development and Fund Finance activities for Private Equity, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Private Debt clients at CACEIS

Ben Griffiths
MUFG Investor Services as Global Head of Fund Financing

Bronwen Jones
Member of the Financial Industry Group

Ivo Keltner
Associate General Counsel and Head of Transaction Legal at BlueBay Asset Management LLP

Alex Korthals
Financial services sector

Eduard Koster
Managing counsel in Dentons

Robert Lee
Partner, Private Funds Practice

Mark Levitt
Global Infrastructure Partners

Fokke Lucas
Investment Director at 17Capital

Michael Mascia
Co-Chair of the firm’s Finance Practice

Philippe Max
Finance partner in Dentons Paris office

Wesley Misson
Partner at Cadwalader

Nick Mitra
Manages the US Capital Call business

Helen Muir
Partner at Europa Capital

Jamie Parish
Trained at Travers Smith

Jonathan Peiper
Executive Director & Group Head in Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Stephen Quinn
Responsibility for the Bank’s broader activities with Financial Sponsor clients

Thomas Rapp
Managing Director in Wells Fargo’s Asset Backed Finance

Bill Reindel
Partner in the Corporate Department and the Finance Practice

Katherine Rowney
Director in the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Private Equity Funds team at Barclays

Emma Russell
Partner and head of the Finance Practice Group

Kristin Rylko
Partner in Mayer Brown’s Banking & Finance practice

Stephen Short
Partner in the Credit Group at Simpson Thacher

Robin Smith
Partner in the banking and finance team of the Jersey office of Carey Olsen

Thomas Smith
Partner in the Finance Group at Debevoise

Leon Stephenson
Member of the Financial Industry Group

Victoria Stewart
Part of the Partners Group Structuring business unit

Matthew Taber
Partner in Harneys’ Cayman office

Paul Tannenbaum
Partner in the Banking & Finance practice of the London office

Ian Taylor
Head of ING’s European & Asian Investment Industry Finance group

Brenda Trenowden
Experience in capital markets, investment and relationship banking

Shani Unantenne
Responsibility for managing the banks relationships with European Alternative Asset Managers

Peter Vermette
Responsible for Debt Capital Markets in the Infrastructure Investment Group

David Wasserman
Managing Director and Heads the Subscription Secured Finance business for Morgan Stanley

Andrew Weber
Headed the European Capital Markets and Derivatives unwind team for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Nicola Wherity
Partner at Clifford Chance

Martin Wurth
Counsel in the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets department of Clifford Chance’s Luxembourg office

Vassiliyan Zanev
Partner in the Banking & Finance Department of Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• Appleby
• Caceis Investor Services
• Cadwalader
• Clifford Chance
• Credit Agricole CIB
• Dentons
• Fried Frank
• Haynes boone
• Mayer Brown
• Reed Smith
• Simpson Thacher
• SMBC
• Wells Fargo

GOLD:
• ABN AMRO
• ANZ
• Ashurst
• Bank of America Merill Lynch
• Barclays
• Carey Olsen
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• Debevoise & Plimpton
• Harneys
• ING
• Lloyds Bank
• Loyens Loeff
• Macfarlanes
• Morgan Stanley
• Mourant
• MUFG
• National Australia Bank
• Natixis
• Beyond Banking
• Proskauer
• Scotiabank
• Travers Smith
• RBS International
• Validus

SILVER:
• Macquarie
• maples
• McDermott Will & Emery
• Ogier
• Ropes & Gray
• Simmons & Simmons
• Societe Generale
• Silicon Valley Bank
• State Street
• Walkers

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Preqin