Private Equity: The Growth and Future of Private Credit

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Please join us for what promises to be an insightful Seminar on 'Private Equity: The Growth and Future of Private Credit' with a drinks reception to follow.

Speakers: Rola Hage Ali and James Oussedik

Chair: Professor David Kershaw

Rola Hage Ali

Group General Counsel

Prior to joining Arini in 2022, Ms. Hage Ali served as Head of Legal and Compliance at Eighteen48 Partners Limited. Before that, she spent nearly a decade with Credit Suisse, most recently in the General Counsel division of the bank’s Asset Management arm. Earlier in her career, she was Senior Legal Counsel at Lyxor Asset Management in Paris, where she structured hedge funds, funds of funds, and other alternative investment vehicles. She began her career as a lawyer with Alem & Associates in Beirut. Ms. Hage Ali holds a Bachelor of Law from Université Saint-Joseph and a Master’s in Banking and Finance Law from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I).

James Oussedik

James Oussedik is a partner in the Private Funds Group at Proskauer. James co-leads the Firm’s global credit funds and sovereign wealth funds initiatives. James advises a broad range of sponsors and investors, covering the establishment of all types of private funds, and advice to sovereign wealth funds, seed investors, pension funds, family offices, and financial institutions, across a range of private and public market strategies. James’s sponsor practice is particularly strong in credit-related strategies of all types across the liquidity spectrum, including credit opportunities, corporate funding solutions, litigation funding, special opportunities, and special situations/distressed. James also has particular experience of advising spin-out managers on the structuring of management arrangements and fund formation, as well as joint venture arrangements and co-investments for both sponsors and investors.

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