Julia Kohen

Julia Kohen is a Partner and Co-Head of the Firm’s pre-eminent Fund Finance Practice as well as a member of its Banking and Credit Practice. Julia has extensive experience structuring complicated and novel financing arrangements for private equity, real estate, energy, infrastructure, secondaries, credit and other investment funds. She regularly represents financial sponsors in connection with financings designed to provide fund-level leverage to facilitate and support investment activities, including subscription facilities, NAV facilities, management lines and co-investment loan programs. Julia has represented clients including Blackstone, KKR, Global Infrastructure Partners, Lexington Partners and Rockpoint. She has been recognized by Law360 as a 2020 “Rising Star” in Banking. 

Julia regularly advises on a wide variety of financings crucial to the formation and ongoing operations of investment funds, including:

• Subscription (or capital call) facilities secured by uncalled capital commitments and related rights, with borrowing base capacity for the fund, as well as its parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and portfolio companies
• NAV-based facilities and hybrid variations secured by fund-level assets and other investments
• Co-investment loan programs made available, directly or indirectly, to employees and partners and secured by their fund interests
• General partner facilities and management lines provided to investment advisors for working capital purposes
• Unsecured demand lines with an uncalled capital coverage requirement
• ECL financings and fund guarantees of portfolio level investments
• Liquidity financings for registered funds

In addition, Julia has co-authored chapters in several editions of Global Legal Insights’ Fund Finance, which covers legal trends and developments in the greater fund finance market and provides law firms, financial institutions, funds and investors with comprehensive insight.

Julia currently serves as a member of the Firm’s Knowledge & Innovation Committee as well as the Pro Bono Committee. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors of Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation, which is a not-for-profit organization that provides high-quality legal services to low-moderate income individuals, CBOs and CDCs in Brooklyn and throughout New York City.

Julia received her J.D. from Duke University, where she served as the Article Editor for the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy and was awarded the Faculty Award for Community Leadership. She received her M.A. and B.A., cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Delaware.