26 Jan 2026
Paul Hastings Expands Fund Finance Practice with New Teams and Opens Charlotte Office
"Paul Hastings adds Holly Loftis, Danyeale Chung, Aleksandra (Aleks) Kopec and Mark Nesdill to its Fund Finance practice, joining the firm’s global finance platform and supporting the launch of a Charlotte office."
From Haynes Boone, Holly Loftis, Aleksandra (Aleks) Kopec and Mark Nesdill join Paul Hastings. Loftis, recognized by Chambers USA as an Up & Coming lawyer in banking and finance, brings more than 15 years of experience and perspective dating to the era before the Fund Finance Association was established. She counsels leading lenders on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of complex and cross-border subscription credit facilities and other fund finance-adjacent secured and unsecured lending arrangements, including management fee lines, GP lines, employee co-invest loans and hybrid financings. Loftis previously practiced with Danyeale Chung at Cadwalader and Mayer Brown.
Aleksandra (Aleks) Kopec is joining as a partner from Haynes Boone. She represents lenders and borrowers across a variety of finance products in fund finance and leveraged finance, including subscription line credit facilities, NAV facilities, partner loan programs and acquisition financings. Kopec has extensive experience in the financial markets of both New York and Charlotte and has been recognized as a 2025 Women in Business honoree by The Charlotte Business Journal and in The Secured Lender's 2024 Women in Secured Finance issue.
Mark Nesdill is joining as a partner from Haynes Boone. His practice is focused on fund-level financings and bespoke and customized fund finance-adjacent solutions. He has nearly a decade of experience representing banks, funds and other financial institutions as lead agents, lenders and participants in transactions including subscription credit facilities, NAV facilities, hybrid facilities, management fee and GP lines, collateralized fund obligations, rated note feeders, financings for SMAs and financings for continuation vehicles.
Danyeale Chung joins from Cadwalader. He represents some of the largest and most prominent lenders in the fund finance industry in structuring, negotiating, documenting and syndicating multijurisdictional and multicurrency subscription facilities and other lending arrangements, often across from top-tier sponsors. Prior to joining Cadwalader, Chung practiced at Mayer Brown.
Together, the teams have worked across from some of the world’s largest banks and asset managers on numerous complex financings, with lender commitments in excess of $5 billion.