Name: NextGen: Exploring the Current State of Private Credit Markets
Start: 2023-06-06T17:30:00Z
End: 2023-06-06T20:00:00Z

NextGen Event

NextGen: Exploring the Current State of Private Credit Markets

June 06, 2023

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM EDT

New York, NY

Join the US NextGen Committee for a panel discussion on the latest trends in private credit.

Our experienced panelists will dive into the fundraising and deployment trends across different private credit asset classes. They will also be discussing the impacts of the imbalance of demand and supply in fund finance and hot topics among private credit LPs, deal participants, and GPs.

Speakers

Christina Bohm

PJT Partners

Jorge Grafal

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Jorge Grafal

Vice President | Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Jorge Grafal is Vice President of the Fund Finance business at Mizuho Americas. Jorge joined Mizuho Americas as part of the firm’s initiative to grow its presence within the Fund Finance industry in January, 2020, having previously worked at National Australia Bank and SMBC. He also serves as a key point of contact within Mizuho for ancillary business opportunities across its full spectrum of products and services. Jorge has been a funds banker for almost 10 years, with a focus on subscription finance facilities, NAV facilities, fund-level foreign exchange services and tailored credit products for private equity employees’ GP commitments. He is currently Co-Head of New York’s FFA NextGen Network.

Filip Malaric

Aksia

Aleem Naqvi

Wilshire

Gopal Narsimhamurthy

KBRA

Gopal Narsimhamurthy

Managing Director, Global Head of Fund Ratings | KBRA

Gopal Narsimhamurthy is a Managing Director within the Funds Rating Group at KBRA. Gopal has been with KBRA since 2014 and has worked across a number of analytical areas including structured finance, public finance, and project finance.

From September 2017 to August 2019, he relocated to Dublin, Ireland, to provide analytical coverage for European structured finance transactions and support KBRA’s growth initiatives across the region. Previously, he was an associate analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, where he specialized in higher education and health care credit analysis.

Gopal holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Rutgers University and a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in finance from New York University.

Sponsored by

Reed Smith

Reed Smith is a market-leading international law firm specializing in fund finance. With more than 1,700 lawyers across 31 offices, we advise lenders and funds on capital call/subscription lines, NAV and asset-backed facilities, secondary funds facilities, hybrid facilities, co-investment and GP/manager support facilities and other fund liquidity facilities in Europe, the U.S., Asia and the UAE. We have one of the largest team of fund finance lawyers globally and provide specialist advice on the new and developing products in this area. Reed Smith has particular capability with financings of direct lending, secondary and PE funds. Reed Smith’s fund finance team sits within our Financial Industry Group, that contains more than 210 lawyers who provide dedicated multi-jurisdictional services to clients in the financial sector, focusing on finance, funds and investment management, regulatory, tax, litigation and commercial restructuring and bankruptcy.

Venue

Reed Smith

599 Lexington Ave, 22nd Floor

New York, NY 10022