
Corinne C. Musa
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Fund Finance
- Corporate & Finance
- Investment Management
- Leveraged Finance
- Litigation Finance
- Private Credit
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Capital Solutions
- Private Capital
- Asset-Based Finance
- Focuses on fund financing transactions, including subscription credit facilities, net asset value (NAV) facilities and other fund-level financings.
- Experience on a wide variety of financing transactions, representing credit funds, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, financial investors, family office clients, high-net-worth individuals, portfolio companies and other corporate borrowers.
- Delivers innovative solutions for investors, including advising on rated note feeders (RNFs) and collateralized fund obligations (CFOs).
Corinne is a leading fund finance lawyer providing comprehensive advice to borrowers and alternative lenders in all aspects of fund financing transactions. Her practice encompasses subscription credit facilities, net asset value (NAV) and hybrid credit facilities, structured credit facilities, specialty finance, rated note feeders (RNFs) and collateralized fund obligations (CFOs). She also regularly represents clients on management fee and GP lines of credit and other financings throughout an investment fund’s structure.
Corinne has been lead counsel on many of the largest and most complex credit arrangements to funds affiliated with preeminent credit funds and private equity sponsors. She partners with clients to provide meaningful and practical advice across the spectrum of fund financing transactions.
Clients rely on Corinne to provide strategic counsel drawing on her deep understanding of the fund finance market, breadth of experience with atypical transactions and commercial approach to deliver streamlined and efficient legal solutions. She offers bespoke advice tailored to each client’s business objectives and investment profile.
Additionally, Corinne has experience advising on more general corporate finance transactions, including acquisition financings, and complex domestic and cross-border transactions.
Corinne also represents family office clients and high-net-worth individuals in various financing matters, including loans secured by fund interests, artwork, pre-IPO interests, margin stock and other unusual assets.
A sought-after thought leader, Corinne regularly publishes articles discussing the latest developments in fund finance. Most recently, she contributed to Global Legal Insights' 10th edition of “Fund Finance.” Corinne co-authored the chapter titled, “Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Considerations for Private Fund Sponsors during Lender Due Diligence.”
- Has worked with fund managers, including Mubadala, ICONIQ, Angelo Gordon and Blackrock, among others, on various finance transactions.
- Advising an alternative lender in a $40-million credit facility supported by venture capital fund interests.
- Advising a fund borrower in negotiations of multiple hybrid credit facilities.
- Advising an alternative lender in an NAV credit facility.
- Advised an investment fund client on multiple subscription credit facilities with large institutional lenders (one for each series of the fund).
EducationJ.D., New York University School of Law, with high honors, 2009
M.Eng., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, summa cum laude, 2004
J.D., New York University School of Law, with high honors, 2009
M.Eng., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, summa cum laude, 2004
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- The Legal 500 US, Commercial Lending, 2024.
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Securities & Corporate Finance, 2013-2020.
- Immigration Equity, Safe Haven Award for Pro Bono Representations, 2018.
- “Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Considerations for Private Fund Sponsors during Lender Due Diligence,” Global Legal Insights: Fund Finance, January 2026.
- “The Future of Fund Finance: Integrating Artificial Intelligence,” PLI Chronicle: Insights and Perspectives for The Legal Community, April 2025.
- “Fund Finance Considerations in Fund Manager M&A,” Fund Finance Laws and Regulations, 2024.
- “VC vs. PE: Comparing the Venture Capital and Private Equity Fund Financing Markets,” Fund Finance Laws and Regulations, 2023.





