Leon Stephenson
Leon Stephenson is a partner in the Fund Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He works with bank and non-bank lenders, managers, general partners and limited partners on fund financing transactions with private equity, secondaries, real estate, private credit and infrastructure funds. He has over two decades of experience advising clients in the fund finance industry and also sits on the European Advisory Committee of the Fund Finance Association.
Leon has extensive knowledge of Net Asset Value (NAV) and hybrid facilities, back leverage facilities, secondary funds facilities, capital call facilities, co-investment and GP/manager support facilities and other types of liquidity facilities provided to funds; and also represents a large proportion of lenders that provide fund financing, as well as a number of private equity and other funds on complex fund finance transactions.