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Michael Mbayi joined by industry experts will have an in-depth discussion concerning the activity of 2024 as well as the last trends and market perspectives for 2025.
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Rossella was educated at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, a highly selective public research university. She started her career as an Analyst at UBS in London, where she quickly rose through the ranks, identifying, structuring and executing highly complex financing and hedging transactions, initially in the structured credit trading desk and then in strategic equity solutions trading. In 2022, she took on the challenge of setting up a new Structured Equity and Credit Financing desk at UniCredit, a mandate to build two new global business lines at the bank from the ground up – Strategic Equity Solutions and Fund Financing. The Fund Financing business has grown handsomely, rounding out the suite of services UniCredit offers to Private Funds, positioning the bank as one of the fastest growing players in the market.
Mr. Likver is a Managing Director in the Capital Solutions Group of the Ares Finance and Accounting Department. Prior to joining Ares in 2019, Mr. Likver was a Vice President in the Client Solutions Group at HSBC, where he was responsible for originating, negotiating and executing cross-asset structured financing transactions for priority sponsor, asset management, hedge fund and financial institution clients. Previously, Mr. Likver held various roles in Debt Capital Markets, Corporate Interest Rate Derivatives and Credit Treasury Trading at HSBC. Mr. Likver holds a B.S.B.A., summa cum laude, in Finance and a B.A., summa cum laude, in Economics from Boston University.
Albert Tan is Co-Head of the Fund Finance Practice Group and also serves as a member of the firm’s (i) Executive Committee, (ii) Board of Directors, and (iii) Partners’ Compensation Committee. He formerly held other leadership positions within the firm, including serving: (a) as a member of the Appointments Committee, which appoints and oversees all of the firm’s strategic leadership and management roles and (b) as a Co-Head of the International Practice Group, and spearheaded the launch of the Shanghai office. Over the course of his 30 years at Haynes and Boone, he has represented investment banks and commercial banks on over $180 billion of subscription financings to private capital funds in North America, Europe and Asia, including some of the first subscription financings in Japan, Greater China, Singapore and Korea.
Michael advises on a wide variety of fund finance transactions. He is the initial recipient of the Annual Contribution to the Industry Award (Legal) granted by the Fund Finance Association and has been recognised by The Drawdown as one of the most influential fund finance experts globally.
Ian is a Managing Director at Barings Portfolio Finance where he is responsible for sourcing and structuring transactions. He is also a member of the investment committee. He was previously a Portfolio Manager at MassMutual’s Direct Private Investments team. Prior to joining MassMutual, Ian was the Head of Secondaries at Investec Fund Solutions, a team part of Investec Plc providing innovative liquidity solutions to funds and fund managers. Before that he also spent several years in the banks leverage finance and investment banking teams. Ian graduated with an accounting and law degree from the University of Stellenbosch as well as achieved a B.Com (Hons) Accounting. Ian is a Chartered Accountant and a qualified attorney.
William Wallace is a Managing Director and the Head of Origination and Execution within SMBC’s Fund Finance Solutions Department (“FFSD”). Within FFSD, William has responsibility over the entire client focused platform where he sets the team’s go to market strategy across Subscription Finance, NAV, Hybrid and other forms of fund financing. William previously worked in SMBC’s Global Financial Institutions Group (“GFIG”) where he ran the Funds and Sponsors team within the broader Americas Financial Institutions Group. Within Funds and Sponsors, William had responsibility for SMBC’s Global Sponsor Coverage, Asset Manager Coverage and Hedge Fund Coverage functions.
Mr. Albano is a Director and Treasurer at L Catterton. Mr. Albano leads all L Catterton Treasury related initiatives, including cash and liquidity management, bank relationship management, foreign exchange, and custody for both the firm and Funds. Mr. Albano graduated from Manhattanville College, where he received his B.A. in Finance.
Praxio Law & Tax is an independent mutli-service law firm in Luxembourg. As corporate, finance, investment funds and tax attorneys, we service clients in all the matters related to business law and both direct and indirect taxation.
