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ACADEMIC PROGRAM

Legal track #2 | Session 5 - Acquisition Financing in Uncertain Times

Organized by the Corporate and M&A and Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Commissions

DATE & TIME​

LOCATION

🗓️ Thursday, August 28
🕐 10:00-11:00 EDT

📍 Waldorf Astoria

DESCRIPTION

In today’s unpredictable economic environment, acquisition financing presents new challenges and opportunities for businesses and dealmakers. This panel brings together experts from M&A, capital markets, and investment banking to discuss and challenge – together with the audience – views on how market volatility, fluctuating interest rates, inflation, economic slowdown, and recession risk, shifting regulatory frameworks (including the (re-)introduction of import tariffs), supply chain disruptions as well as geopolitical tensions (amongst many others) impact the availability of acquisition financing in different sectors.

 

Panellists will explore evolving deal structures, risk management strategies, and alternative financing solutions, offering practical insights for lawyers navigating complex transactions and protecting client interests during periods of economic uncertainty.

 

This session will provide the next generation of transactional lawyers with the tools, knowledge, and strategies needed to succeed in a rapidly changing landscape. Focusing on global markets, this highly interactive discussion will highlight current developments, emerging trends, and opportunities and their potential impact on the availability and pricing of acquisition financing. A must-attend session for lawyers eager to stay ahead in a rapidly changing landscape and empower their practice – and their clients – in an increasingly complex environment.

THIS SESSION IS SPONSORED BY

SPEAKERS

Nick Kumleben

Greenmantle, USA

Bio

Nick is a junior partner and the energy director at Greenmantle, where he advises some of the world’s largest private and public market investors on geopolitical risk, with a particular focus on US policy, energy and commodities, and macroeconomics. His background includes roles in private equity, hedge fund investment analysis, and at a >$2BN fintech startup. A Clean Energy Leadership Institute fellow, Nick holds a BA in History with highest honors from the University of Virginia and is a CFA charterholder. His work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and The Spectator, amongst other publications.

Carolina Posse Van der Laat

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados, S.L.P., Spain

Bio

Carolina is a senior associate in Corporate and M&A at the Barcelona office of Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.

Her practice is focused on M&A, private equity transactions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. She has particular experience advising strategic and private equity investors, as well as industrial clients and founders, in leveraged buyouts, transactions with seller financing components (e.g., deferred and contingent consideration, earn-outs and equity rollovers), hybrid acquisition financing instruments, co-investments and joint ventures for project financing.

Carolina was seconded to Gómez-Acebo & Pombo in London in 2016 and in New York in 2018.

She participated in the Visiting Lawyers Program of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York from the beginning of September 2024 until the end of May 2025.  

Carolina has been lecturer of business law in several law schools in Spain and has participated as author or coauthor in several specialized publications.

Danielle Golinski

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP., Germany

Bio

Danielle is a Managing Associate in Orrick’s Technology Companies Group in Munich. She advises innovative tech companies and investors on venture capital financings, M&A transactions, and foreign trade matters, with particular expertise in export control and technology transfer. Danielle’s practice spans both national and cross-border transactions, and she has a strong track record supporting clients operating in regulated and emerging sectors such as defense, aerospace and deep tech.

Before starting her career as an attorney, Danielle worked as legal counsel at a major applied research organization, where she advised on export control and compliance matters involving advanced technologies.

She holds an LL.M. in International Trade Law from Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

Danielle is also a committed advocate for women in the legal profession and serves as a mentor with Legally Female, a nationwide platform that supports and empowers female legal professionals in Germany.

SESSION COORDINATOR AND MODERATOR

Marc Schamaun

MLL, Switzerland

Bio

Marc is a partner in the Corporate and M&A department of MLL Legal (former Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Froriep). His practice focuses on Swiss and cross-border corporate and financial market transactions, primarily M&A, strategic partnerships and investments (joint ventures, venture capital and private equity). Other areas of work include general corporate law, in particular in connection with complex restructurings, as well as real estate transactions. His clients include Swiss and foreign listed and private companies, private equity and venture capital funds, emerging companies as well as family offices and HNW individuals. Marc holds a PhD (Dr. iur.) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, a master’s degree (lic. iur.) from University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a master’s degree (LL.M.) from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He has been admitted to the Swiss / Zurich bar in 2014.