Overview
Ann Richardson Knox is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice at Mayer Brown and is the Global Head of Mayer Brown’s Fund Finance team. Ann has spent over 20 years structuring complex leveraged financings to US and global private funds, sponsors and portfolio companies and has represented both financial institutions and funds. Ann’s vast experience encompasses financings at every level of the capital stack and every phase of a fund’s existence.
Ann represents major domestic and foreign investment and commercial banks as lead agent and arranger in connection with subscription credit facilities. She has been lead counsel on many of the largest and complex subscription credit facilities to funds sponsored by the world’s preeminent fund sponsors. Ann’s practice also includes structuring novel solutions to provide leverage on fund portfolio assets, including private equity limited partnership interests, real estate, debt and portfolio companies. Notably, Ann led the first such portfolio leveraging financings to secondary funds more than a decade ago.
Areas of Focus
Perspectives
-
May 122020
Events
-
October 222019
-
March 062019
-
October 092018
-
September 202017
-
September 132017
News
-
January 172018
-
September 072012
Education
Columbia University, JD
Special Projects Editor, Human Rights Law Review
Cornell University, BS
Admissions
- New York
Activities
- American Bar Association
- New York County Lawyer's Association