Linda Filardi

Counsel

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

New York, NY

Linda Filardi is Counsel in the Fund Finance Group of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Prior to that, she was Senior Director at Capital One. Prior to Capital One, she was Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Antares Capital, which was previously the lev fin business of GE Capital. Linda is part of the Loan Syndicated Trading Association’s Primary Market Committee & on the Board of the Business Loan Coalition. She is Chair of the Fund Finance Committee of the ABA, a Regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers & Managing Editor, Business Law Today.

Lisa R. Jacobs

Partner

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP

Philadelphia, PA

Ms. Jacobs is a partner in Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP’s Business Department. She is a Uniform Law Commissioner, chairing its Executive Committee and the ULC-ABA Joint Editorial Board on Uniform Unincorporated Entities. She is a member of the ALI, ACCFL and ABA, and chairs the drafting committee modifying Pennsylvania’s business laws. She is a Director of a $6B regional bank and the Greater Philadelphia YMCA and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school, teaching International Business Negotiations.

Elizabeth Tabas Carson

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

New York, NY

Elizabeth Tabas Carson represents alternative lenders, investors, asset managers, hedge funds, traditional banks, and investment banks, as well as corporate borrowers, financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border leveraged finance and special situations transactions. Liz’s practice focuses on distressed debt, regulated and complex debt offerings in private and public markets with a particular focus on asset managers, healthcare, life sciences, technology, intellectual property, NAV financings, and other transactions involving regulated and esoteric asset classes. Liz also serves as the Vice Chair of the ABA sub-committee on fund finance.

Annie Wallis

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Chicago, IL

Annie Wallis is a partner in the Global Finance Group of Sidley's Chicago office. Her practice includes financings of alternative assets, including financings for investment funds and asset managers (such as NAV facilities, GP and management company lines and capital call facilities), secured and unsecured lending transactions, cash flow and asset based leverage facilities, acquisition financing, mezzanine and second lien financing, debt restructuring and film, media and entertainment financing. She represents lenders, participants, agents, sponsors, originators and borrowers in bilateral and syndicated credits. Her clients include investment banks, commercial banks, hedge funds, private equity funds and public and private companies.