Corinne Musa, Partner, Debt Finance

Corinne C. Musa

Partner

Areas of Focus

Corinne Musa, Partner, Debt Finance

Corinne C. Musa

Partner

cmusa@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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  • Experience on a wide variety of financing transactions, representing private equity sponsors, hedge funds, financial investors, family office clients, high-net-worth individuals, portfolio companies and other corporate  borrowers.
  • Focuses on fund financing transactions, including subscription credit facilities, net asset value (NAV) facilities, and other fund-level financings.

Corinne’s practice focuses on borrowers and alternative lenders in all aspects of fund financing  transactions, with a specific focus on subscription credit facilities, net asset value (NAV) and hybrid credit  facilities. She also regularly represents clients on management fee and GP lines of credit and other financings throughout an investment fund’s structure.

Corinne has been lead counsel on many of the largest and most complex credit arrangements to funds affiliated with preeminent fund sponsors. She partners with clients to provide meaningful and practical advice across the spectrum of fund financing transaction.

Additionally, Corinne has experience advising on more general corporate finance transactions, including acquisition financings, and complex domestic and cross-border transactions.

Corinne also represents family office clients and high-net-worth individuals in various financing matters, including loans secured by fund interests, artwork, pre-IPO interests, margin stock and other unusual assets.

Corinne’s clients benefit from her deep understanding of the fund finance market, breadth of experience with atypical transactions and commercial approach to deliver streamlined and efficient legal solutions.

Each year from 2013-2020, Corinne was recognized as a Rising Star for securities & corporate finance in Super Lawyers magazine. In 2018, she also received the Safe Haven Award from Immigration Equality for her pro bono efforts on various immigration cases. Corinne actively participates in her community, serving as treasurer and vestry member of her church, and she has an active pro bono practice.

Representative Work
  • Has worked with fund managers, including Mubadala, ICONIQ, Angelo Gordon and Blackrock, among others, on various finance transactions.
  • Advising an alternative lender in a $40-million credit facility supported by venture capital fund interests.
  • Advising a fund borrower in negotiations of multiple hybrid credit facilities.
  • Advising an alternative lender in an NAV credit facility.
  • Advised an investment fund client on multiple subscription credit facilities with large institutional lenders (one for each series of the fund).
  • Advised an investment fund on an umbrella capital call credit facility comprising nine different fund complexes.
  • Advised a global alternative investment manager on a $600-million loan to a special purpose vehicle.
  • Advised the agent and arranger in connection with a $30-million credit facility provided by a private lender to a sponsor secured by certain management fee streams in connection with the acquisition of another sponsor.
  • Represented individual family members in >$500-million loan from JPMorgan in connection with a take-private transaction secured by equity pledge.
  • Represented a family office in a $50-million term loan and a $50-million revolving line of credit loan from JPMorgan secured by various fund interests.
  • Represented various fund managers in connection with loan programs to employees provided by various regional banks, secured by fund co-investment interests.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.

Education
  • J.D., New York University School of Law, with high honors, 2009

  • M.Eng., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, summa cum laude, 2004

Bar Admissions
  • New York

Recognitions
  • The Legal 500 US, Commercial Lending, 2024.
  • Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Securities & Corporate Finance, 2013-2020.
  • Immigration Equity, Safe Haven Award for Pro Bono Representations, 2018.
Speeches and Publications
  • “Fund Finance Considerations in Fund Manager M&A,” Fund Finance Laws and Regulations, 2024.
  • “VC vs. PE: Comparing the Venture Capital and Private Equity Fund Financing Markets,” Fund Finance Laws and Regulations, 2023.

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