Strategic Financing: Powering Growth in a Challenging Economy
Presented By: JP Morgan Chase / Polsinelli
Adapting financing strategies to an evolving economic climate is essential for driving business growth and executing successful deals. This panel features leaders from diverse sectors sharing practical approaches to securing capital, managing risk, and leveraging financial resources for expansion. Gain actionable insights into innovative funding solutions, responding to market challenges, and aligning financing strategies with long-term goals to create value in today’s dynamic environment.
Moderator:
Office Managing Partner | Private Credit & Direct Lending and Cross-Border Finance Leader
Polsinelli
Gabriel Yomi Dabiri leads Polsinelli’s national Private Credit and Cross-Border Finance practice. Gabriel also serves as Office Managing Partner of Polsinelli’s New York office.
Gabriel advises lenders, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers on senior, mezzanine and subordinated loans, unitranche facilities, first lien/second lien facilities, and cash flow, ABL, subscription line and capital call facilities. Gabriel also negotiates complex intercreditor and subordination arrangements on behalf of his clients and supports clients on various debt restructurings and bankruptcies, including negotiating debtor-in-possession facilities and advising clients in connection with sovereign-debt crises. He leverages his market expertise in both “buy-and-hold” credit strategies and broadly syndicated finance transactions to guide clients on a variety of deals, from the routine to cutting edge.
Gabriel is dual-qualified, admitted to practice law as an attorney in New York and as a solicitor in England and Wales, and has deep and extensive experience supporting clients on sophisticated cross-border deals.
Prior to joining Polsinelli, Gabriel worked for a Magic Circle law firm in London, Singapore and New York, advising clients on domestic and cross-border capital markets and banking and finance transactions, and for leading global law firms in Manhattan, advising premier international financial institutions and corporate borrowers on upper middle and middle market leveraged finance deals.
Panelists:
CEO
US Heart & Vascular
Currently the CEO of US Heart and Vascular (an Ares and Rubicon backed cardiology platform), Robbie has led organizations ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to billion-dollar enterprises, and he has a long history of successfully helping those companies grow and scale nationally and globally. Prior To USHV, Robbie was CEO of One GI, one of the largest MSO's focused on the GI space and has been a serial founder and CEO for over 30 years.
Head of Business Development
Neuberger Berman
Ty Black leads the Business Development function at Neuberger Berman and is a member of the NB Capital Solutions investment team. Neuberger Berman provides bespoke minority capital solutions to industry leading companies.
Prior to joining Neuberger Berman in 2023, Ty worked at Gridiron Capital, where he worked on the investment and business development teams of an ~$10 billion AUM private equity group.
Ty earned an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a B.B.A. in Finance from Ohio University, where he played varsity baseball.
Managing Director
JPMorgan Chase
Jason Lloyd is a Market Executive at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for delivering financial solutions to sponsor-backed companies in North Carolina and South Carolina. He brings over 30 years of experience in capital markets, business development, client management, and banking fundamentals to this role.