Practices
Caroline M. Lee is a partner in Seward & Kissel’s Corporate Group. She has extensive experience crafting tailored financing solutions for investment funds with complex structures across a variety of asset classes.
Caroline regularly advises financial sponsors, asset managers and financial institutions on a wide range of fund financing transactions designed to facilitate and support investment activities, including: subscription (capital call) facilities secured by uncalled capital commitments and related rights, with borrowing base capacity for the fund, as well as its parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and portfolio companies; unsecured demand lines with an uncalled capital coverage requirement; NAV-based facilities; hybrid facilities; fund-level ABL revolvers and SPV asset-based financings; margin loans; fund guarantees of portfolio level investments; GP facilities and management lines provided to investment advisors for working capital purposes; and employee co-investment credit facilities secured by their fund interests.
In addition, Caroline has co-authored chapters in several editions of Global Legal Insights’ Fund Finance, which covers legal trends and developments in the greater fund finance market and provides law firms, financial institutions, funds and investors with comprehensive insight.
Events
- Speaker, Term Loans, Credit Risk Transfers, and Credit Guaranties in Subscription Finance: Tailoring Loan Terms; Mitigating Risks, Strafford Webinar (December 10, 2024)