Fitch Ratings has published an exposure draft proposing new rating criteria for subscription facilities backed by capital commitments to private capital funds.
The EMEA NextGen team will host a joint FFA NextGen and NextGen IR panel event on March 21 to discuss fundraising trends, financing needs and investor considerations.
U.S. Bank is seeking an Analyst to join its Subscription Finance origination team in New York. For a description of the role, and for other information, including how to apply, please visit here.
As the Cadwalader European Fund Finance team commented at the end of 2022 (following an industry-wide survey), 2023 was predicted to be a challenging environment for subscription line financing given increased regulatory requirements, higher interest rates and liquidity constraints, among a number of other factors. In the final quarter of 2022 and at the start of 2023, we have seen a number of these themes play out as predicted, with liquidity constraints clearly playing into pricing. Spreads across all sizes of managers and asset classes are widening. This, coupled with the rising rate environment making the all-in cost to utilise subscription lines at an all-time high, has prompted a debate: at which point does subscription finance become uneconomical for GPs?
Today’s article marks the halfway point in our alphabetical 50-state survey of sovereign immunity, as this installment covers Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire and New Jersey.
Women in Fund Finance (WFF) U.S. is hosting a virtual panel on “Navigating ESG Communications: Strategies for Challenging Times” this Tuesday, February 28 at 11 a.m. EST. The panel will focus on ESG data, disclosure, and ratings/scoring and will explore how different types of data may be used for risk analysis/mitigation, strategic planning/value creation and stakeholder engagement/communication. Click here to register and for the speakers’ list.
With increasing demand for liquidity solutions, Goodwin has published a resource on reasons why fund managers are turning towards NAV financing and preferred equity tools. The resource offers a high-level summary on strategies, including the offensive and the defensive, as well as key considerations relating to the highly bespoke structures such as availability, pricing and LTV covenants/borrowing base. To read more, click here.