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Jeff Johnston
Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities LLC
Jeff Johnston, CFA, is a Managing Director and the Head of Asset Management within Wells Fargo’s Corporate & Investment Banking group. Mr. Johnston oversees a team of corporate and investment bankers who deliver a broad array of products and services, inclusive of advisory, debt and equity capital markets, subscription finance, management company loans, treasury management & depository services and other banking products for traditional and alternative asset managers globally.
In 2018 Mr. Johnston took over leadership for the Subscription Finance business of which he previously ran the Origination, Structuring and Execution team within that group. He is responsible for creating the Subscription Finance business within Wells Fargo in 2010. Prior to 2010 Mr. Johnston held a variety of roles across structured products at Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
Mr. Johnston is a CFA charterholder and received a BA from the University of South Florida in Physics, and is currently the Chairman of the Fund Finance Association, a global industry association for constituents in the fund finance space.
Jeff Johnston
Chairman
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Mike Mascia
Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Mike Mascia is Co-Chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Finance Group and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He has a globally recognized fund finance practice, having represented lenders in subscription credit facilities to real estate and private equity funds sponsored by many of the world’s preeminent fund sponsors. He has been lead counsel on numerous hybrid facilities, and is one of the few attorneys in the United States with experience in both subscription credit facilities and CLO’s. Mike represents lenders on leverage facilities to secondary funds and other credits looking primarily to fund assets or NAV for repayment. Mike is the founder of the annual Global Fund Finance Symposium and he is a founding member and the Secretary of the Funds Finance Association.
Mike Mascia
Secretary
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Nick Mitra
Managing Director, Natixis
Nick Mitra manages the Capital Call business for Natixis for the Americas and is also the global coordinator for the Capital Call product ensuring compliance with exposure limits and adherence to consistent standards for Capital Call credit facilities. Prior to joining the Global Structured Credit & Solutions Group at Natixis, Nick worked in the Credit Group at Natixis covering Financial Institutions and Insurance Companies. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs and Accenture in different roles and was the CFO of an entrepreneurial start-up – UConnections.com – aimed at the education space. Nick started his career at Lehman Brothers as a trader’s assistant in the security lending/repo area. Nick has approximately 17 years of experience in the financial sector. Nick is also a co-founding member of the Fund Finance Association, an industry group dedicated to Fund Finance and related products, where he sits on the Board of the Association.
Nick holds an MBA in Finance from NYU and a BS in Finance from Lehigh University and is a CFA charter holder. He is also the First Vice Chairman of the Fund Finance Association.
Nick Mitra
First Vice Chairman
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Mary Touchstone
Partner and Head of Fund Finance Practice, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Mary Touchstone is a Partner and Head of the Fund Finance Practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Mary has helped to establish Simpson Thacher as a global leader in the representation of financial sponsors in fund financings. She is widely acknowledged as a leading lawyer in the subscription credit facility market and represents many of the world’s preeminent sponsors of private equity, real estate, energy, infrastructure, debt and other investment funds on the largest and most complex fund facilities.
Mary and her team regularly work on a wide variety of fund level financings, including secured and unsecured subscription (or capital call) facilities, with borrowing capacity for the fund as well as its parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and portfolio companies; fund guarantees and other credit support of portfolio level financings; NAV-based facilities and hybrid variations provided as aftercare facilities for funds that are later in their life cycles with less uncalled capital and more portfolio asset value; credit facilities for managed account vehicles; employee co-investment loan programs; management lines to investment advisers for working capital purposes; and liquidity financings for registered funds.
Mary Touchstone
Vice Chairman
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Tina Meigh
Partner and Head of Fund Finance Practice, Maples Group
Tina is head of Maples and Calder’s Finance team in the Maples Group’s Cayman Islands office. She leads the Fund Finance practice and also has extensive experience in all aspects of banking, derivatives and securitisations. Tina represents hedge funds, private equity funds and banks on fund finance and other lending transactions, bank products, deal structures and on all types of secured transactions. She advises a large number of international associations and financial institutions on derivatives and issues surrounding related collateral packages in the context of insolvency in the Cayman Islands. She also has significant experience of general corporate and commercial matters and the establishment of offshore investment funds.
Tina joined the Maples Group in 2005 and was elected as a partner in 2012. She previously worked for Lovells where she completed a secondment to Citibank. Tina has been recommended in Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.
Tina Meigh
Vice Chairman
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Jeff Maier
Managing Director, First Republic Bank
Jeff T. Maier is a Senior Managing Director on First Republic Bank’s Private Equity Finance team. Jeff has been working in private equity in various capacities since 2002 when he joined JPMorgan’s proprietary private equity group, JPMorgan Partners. Jeff continued with JPMorgan Chase & Co. after the JPMorgan Partners spin-out in 2005 and was instrumental in the build out and business development efforts of JPMorgan’s Private Equity Fund Services business; a leading provider of third party fund administration and banking services to private equity funds globally. In 2012 Jeff joined Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) to launch their Private Equity Services business in New York. During his tenure at SVB, Jeff was able to grow the New York Private Equity and Venture portfolio from ~$1B in loan commitments to over $6B in loan commitments. Jeff has extensive middle office, back office and business development expertise in private equity, including banking and lending to some of the leading private equity firms in the world. His team at First Republic Bank has executed on over $5B in loan commitments to leading private equity and venture capital firms.
Jeff holds a law degree from the University of Missouri and a B.S. from Illinois State University.
Jeff Maier
Vice Chairman
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Emma Russell
Partner, Haynes & Boone, LLP
Emma Russell is a partner and head of the Finance Practice Group in the London office of Haynes and Boone. Emma is an experienced loan finance lawyer with extensive knowledge in global fund finance, real estate finance transactions, and structured and specialty finance, as well as more general experience in acquisition, leverage, and general corporate finance. Her practice focuses on the full range of fund lending products across all fund sectors, (including private equity, real estate, secondaries, infrastructure, and hedge) from capital call facilities, hybrid/NAV facilities, to general partner support, co-invest facilities and portfolio acquisition facilities and assisting funds with structuring. Emma has significant experience advising credit funds and their lenders in relation to leverage facilities to CLO’s/CDO’s and securitisation vehicles. Emma’s experience also includes advising both lenders and funds on private equity, receivables financing, asset based lending, speciality finance, real estate fund structuring, and acting for both lenders and sponsors in relation to investment and development real estate finance and leverage restructurings. Emma has spent significant time working in-house with various financial institutions during her career. She has gained varied experiences with both business and legal teams across all lending sectors. Emma co-chairs the European Committee of Women in Fund Finance, a group associated with the Fund Finance Association, which is focused on recognition and promotion of women leaders within the alternative investment fund finance industry.
Emma Russell
EMEA Vice Chairman
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Danielle Roman
Partner, Mourant Ozannes
Danielle is a Partner in Mourant’s Banking and Finance team in Hong Kong, having practiced in Asia for over 15 years. She advises on a broad spectrum of cross-border transactions, including asset finance (with particular expertise in aviation and shipping finance), fund financing, acquisition and leveraged finance, debt restructurings, project finance, FinTech and general corporate lending.
In fund financing, she regularly represents investment and commercial banks on subscription credit facilities. She is also Co-Head of the Asia-Pacific Executive Committee for the Fund Finance Association, and is on the board of directors of Women in Fund Finance Asia. Danielle has been recognised for her work in fund finance through awards such as the Dee Dee Skylar Women in Fund Finance Award 2020.
Prior to joining Mourant in 2012, she worked at Clifford Chance in Hong Kong and Dentons in London.
Danielle Roman
APAC Vice Chairman
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Terry Hatton
Senior Vice President and Manager, Union Bank
Terry Hatton is a Managing Director and head of the Fund Finance Group for MUFG in New York. MUFG’s fund client base includes real estate, mezzanine, infrastructure, energy, private equity and venture capital. The bank has built an established track record, providing fund sponsors with competitive lending products, inclusive of subscription and bridge capital call facilities; senior and asset-based debt financing for general industries, as well as health care, environmental, and aerospace and defense. Terry has a bachelor’s degree from University of Western Ontario.
Terry Hatton
Treasurer
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