Kinne Manente
Biography
Kinne Manente is a Dallas partner in Haynes Boone’s Finance Practice Group and a member of the firm’s fund finance team, which includes more than 65 attorneys. Her practice focuses on structuring, negotiating, and documenting multi-jurisdictional subscription-secured credit facilities. These include both syndicated and bilateral facilities, deals with cascading structures as well as committed and uncommitted lines. Her practice is largely lender-focused, representing both agent and syndicate lenders in subscription line facilities.
Kinne serves in various roles within Haynes Boone, including on the Board Advisory Committee.
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- Assisted with representation of individual lenders, facility agents and multi-jurisdictional bank syndicates in connection with the structuring and negotiating of credit facilities to private equity funds, real estate development companies, and real estate investment trusts (REITs), secured by the capital commitments of fund investors.
- Assisted with representation of a national banking institution in connection with all mortgage warehouse lending transactions across the southern and south-western portions of the United States.
- Assisted national banking institution with the transition of all of its syndicated and a majority of its bilateral subscription facilities to an affiliate entity.
- Assisted national banking institution in connection with a $3.5 billion subscription-secured credit facility with both revolving and term tranches.
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- Recognized by Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, 2022-2023
- Included in Texas Super Lawyers Women’s Edition, Thomson Reuters, as a Rising Star, 2023
- Included in the "Ones to Watch" category of The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., 2022-2025
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- "Investor Transfer Covenants Come to the Fore as Secondaries Increase," co-author, IFLR, July 30, 2025.
- "Fund Finance Insights: High Net Worth Investors," co-author, Haynes Boone Client Alert, November 7, 2024.
- "Investors with Sovereign Immunity in Texas," co-author, Haynes Boone Client Alert, May 9, 2024.
- "Standstill Provisions in Subscription Facilities," co-author, LexisNexis, June 15, 2023.
- "Treatment of HNW Feeders in Subscription Secured Credit Facilities," co-author, Bloomberg Law, May 5, 2023.
- "Understanding PE Employee Co-Investment Credit Facilities," co-author, Law360, February 12, 2020.
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Education
- B.A., Amherst College, 2010
- J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2013, magna cum laude, Duke Law Journal
Admissions
- Texas
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What fund finance matters do you handle?
My practice focuses on subscription-secured credit facilities. These include syndicated and bilateral facilities, cascading structures, and committed and uncommitted lines.
Who do you represent in subscription facilities?
My clients are predominantly large financial institutions serving as lenders within the subscription line space.
What Haynes Boone leadership or service role do you hold?
I serve in various roles within Haynes Boone, including on the Board Advisory Committee. I am also part of the firm’s fund finance team.
Have you written on subscription facility issues?
Yes. I have co-authored publications which include articles on standstill provisions in subscription facilities, high-net-worth feeders in subscription-secured credit facilities, and investor transfer covenants.
How would you describe a representative matter within your practice?
Our work often begins at the earliest stages of a subscription line facility. We generally assist lenders with diligence of the fund governing agreement(s) and negotiating a term sheet for the transaction. From there, we move to the documentation phase and prepare all of the loan documents, perform investor diligence, and negotiate related fund deliverables. It is not uncommon for a transaction to require maintenance work for up to a decade thereafter. We have documented facilities ranging from $20 million to over $3.5 billion, with syndicates of over a dozen lenders.
Manente and Choe in IFLR: Investor Transfer Covenants Come to the Fore as Secondaries Increase
July 30, 2025
