Linda Filardi is a counsel in the Fund Finance Group of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft in New York. Her practice focuses on leveraged finance, with an emphasis on sponsor acquisition finance and fund finance, including NAV facilities.

Linda spent more than 20 years in executive in-house legal positions for Fortune 100 financial institutions. Most recently, she served as Senior Director and Associate General Counsel at Capital One Bank, responsible for legal management of the Financial Institutions Group, Diversified Industries, Leveraged Finance, Direct Lending, Regional Banking and Municipal Finance. Prior to joining Capital One, she was Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Antares Capital, which was previously the leveraged finance business of GE Capital sold to the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, where she managed all aspects of the Sponsor Finance Group’s NY/CA originated transactions for over 15 years. She started her GE career in Tokyo, Japan where she covered the Global Financial Restructuring Business in Asia. At GE, she also served as the Vice Chair of the GE Political Action Committee.

Linda started her legal career at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, where she was a corporate finance and securities lawyer. Before beginning her legal career, Linda was an Assistant Treasurer at American Express Bank, where she worked as a credit analyst in the aircraft leasing division after completing the nine-month Bank Credit Analyst Management Training Program.