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VC Fund Finance: Essential Tools, Strategies and Applications

with James Rock-Perring, Fund Finance Advisor @BlueRock Advisory

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This masterclass deep dives into the world of VC Fund Finance: Essential Tools, Strategies, and Applications. Tailored for fund managers at various stages, including second-time and larger fund GPs, as well as emerging managers exploring fund finance for the first time, it offers insights into Subscription Lines (Capital Call lines), NAV financing, GP Support/Co-invest financing, and structured solutions for liquidity management.

Providing a comprehensive overview of fund finance, its origins, and its role across the fund lifecycle, this session balances conceptual frameworks with actionable insights and gain a deeper understanding of how fund finance can help bridge capital needs, enhance liquidity, and align investment strategies with long-term goals.


Agenda

  • ​Overview of Fund Financing

  • Capital Call Lines, NAV Financing and GP Support Lines

  • ​Comparison of Fund Financing Products

  • ​What’s the Process and How to Navigate It.

​Key Learning Points

  1. ​​What is Fund Finance? Understand its origins and strategic importance.

  2. ​​Types of Facilities: Explore subscription lines, NAV financing and GP support, and their lifecycle applications.

  3. Securing Fund Finance: Learn step-by-step how to navigate processes for securing each facility.

  4. Stakeholder Benefits: Discover the advantages fund finance offers to GPs and LPs, including operational and financial efficiencies.

  5. Tailored Insights: The session will be designed with the profile of all attendees in mind for relevant insight for funds at different sizes and stages of development.


Instructor

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James Rock-Perring is an established Private Market practitioner spanning the areas of Fund Finance, Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage. Having worked with both Large and Mid-Market sponsors in the UK and Europe and highly experienced in all aspects of transaction origination and execution, both at the fund and portfolio company level. Previously with the Lloyds Banking Group Fund Finance team based in London and prior to that at Credit Suisse and Bank of Scotland executing large LBO financings.

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