Keeping the focus on Asia, this week we profile Fi Dinh and delve into her perspectives on private capital markets and fund finance in the region, capital flows and life in Singapore. Fi is a Director of Investment Industry Finance (IIF) and Insurance Sector Finance (ISF), Asia-Pacific at ING, based in Singapore. She joined ING in 2018 to help expand ING’s fund financing business into the Asia-Pacific region. The ING IIF team operates in key financial hubs for the fund management industry, including New York, London, Luxembourg and Singapore, and provides and arranges fund financing facilities to listed and unlisted funds managed by institutional asset management firms and leading financial sponsors. Before ING, Fi spent nearly a decade at Barclays in London and Dubai, where she was Director, Financial Institutions Group and helped build a successful Private Equity coverage franchise supporting financial sponsors and alternative asset managers in EMEA and the U.S.
This week, we’re excited to bring you an interview with Edoardo Levy, Founder and Managing Principal of BZH Capital Partners. We cover Edoardo's time at Investec and the buildout of that firm’s U.S. platform. Then we get into his new venture and his vision for democratizing private capital investment. Prior to founding BZH Capital Partners, Edoardo oversaw the development of the U.S. secondaries and funds of funds lending business at Investec. Today, he is hard at work launching a new fund.
Alistair is a partner in the corporate and finance group of Carey Olsen in the Cayman Islands and advises on all aspects of finance, corporate, investment funds and commercial law.
He has advised clients on a broad range of transactions, including financing, private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets, and is described by clients in IFLR1000 as "the best Cayman lawyer we've ever worked with."
Alistair is rated as a Leading Lawyer – Highly Regarded in IFLR1000 2019.
Mike Breaux is the Director of Fund Banking for Stifel Bank, a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp (NYSE: SF). At Stifel, Mike and his team focus on providing flexible subscription/capital call lines of credit and full-service banking to sponsors across all asset classes. Previously, Mike spent 7 years with Square 1 Bank, now Pacific Western Bank, as Senior Vice President focusing on fund banking.
James is Head of Fund Finance Advisory at Intertrust, advising Private Market Funds on the raising of Fund Finance Facilities across Private Equity, Credit, Real Estate and Infrastructure. James has over 20 years of banking experience within Private Markets, spanning the areas of Fund Finance, Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage. He has worked with both Large and Mid-Market sponsors in the UK and Europe and is highly experienced in all aspects of transaction origination and execution, both at the fund and portfolio company level. He was previously with the Lloyds Banking Group Fund Finance team based in London. James is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Master's in Finance from London Business School.
Anna-Lise Wisdom is a Partner in the corporate team in Appleby’s Cayman office. She specializes in fund financing and regularly advises leading financial institutions in connection with subscription facilities, NAV-based facilities and hybrid facilities offered to private equity funds. She also has substantial experience in asset finance, acquisition finance and general corporate finance. Anna-Lise has been rated as a "rising star" in banking and financial services in the IFLR1000 2019 rankings. She is a co-author of the Cayman chapter of Fund Finance 2019 published by Global Legal Insights and regularly appears on global panels to debate topical issues in fund finance.
Adam co-leads the Funds Finance Team at Raiffeisen Bank International and is responsible for originating, structuring and executing fund-level financing solutions for alternative asset managers. Previously, Adam was a Relationship Manager on the Funds Team at Lloyds Banking Group and a Partner at Altius Associates, a private equity gatekeeper and fund of funds manager. He holds a LLB Law (Honors) from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and an Executive MBA from Cass Business School, City University, London.
This week we interview Scott Aleali, who is a Managing Director and leads the Private Equity Finance team in New York at First Republic Bank. His expertise includes commercial and private banking liquidity solutions for private equity management companies and their funds, investment vehicles, portfolio companies, GP/Co-Investment entities, and individual partners and principals. Prior to joining First Republic, Scott was a Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank, where he spent 10 years banking and structuring credit solutions for private equity and venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. Scott earned his bachelor’s degree in finance, real estate and law from California State University, Long Beach.
Spencer is a Relationship Director within the Institutional Banking business of RBS International. He has been operating in the Funds space since the mid-2000s and has developed a portfolio of clients that now incorporates primary and secondary private equity funds and private debt managers.
This week we interview Gavin Rees, who leads Silicon Valley Bank’s Global Funds Banking Team in London. The team serves private equity and venture capital funds with banking services and customised financing. Gavin has more than 25 years of specialist banking experience, of which 15 years have been focused on funds finance and seven years in structured finance. Gavin joined Silicon Valley Bank from Barclays, where he led the European private equity funds team. Before that, Gavin was a founder member of WestLB’s Funds Finance Group in New York.
