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ANNIE WALLIS is a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin LLP. She practices in the Global Finance group. Her practice includes financings of alternative assets, including financings for investment funds and asset managers (such as NAV facilities, fund-of-fund facilities, margin loans, and capital call facilities), secured and unsecured lending transactions, cash flow and asset based leverage facilities, merger and acquisition financing, mezzanine and second lien financings, debt restructurings, private debt and and film, media and entertainment financing. She represents lenders, participants, agents, sponsors, originators and borrowers in single-bank and syndicated credits. Her clients include hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, private credit funds, asset managers, investment banks, commercial banks, and public and private companies.