Ramya S. Tiller is a corporate partner based in the New York office. Ms. Tiller is a member of the firm’s Finance and Special Situations Groups, and leads the firm’s Fund Finance Group in New York. Her practice covers a broad range of financings, including complex acquisition and leveraged transactions, fund finance transactions and other alternative capital transactions. She has extensive experience in borrower and lender-side fund finance and structured finance transactions, regularly representing clients in PE NAV facilities, secondaries and credit fund NAV facilities, subscription credit facilities, GP financings and collateralized fund obligations (CFOs). She also regularly represents insurance companies in multiple financings, including those related to reinsurance sidecars, and other transactions.
Ms. Tiller is ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Commercial Lending by The Legal 500 US (2023), where she has been described as an “ultimate professional,” and “highly rated.” She is also recognized as a Notable Practitioner in Banking by IFLR1000 (2022). Ms. Tiller is a frequent speaker on finance-related topics for the Practising Law Institute and routinely writes on fund finance topics.
Ms. Tiller joined Debevoise in 2007. She holds a B.A. LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, where she graduated third in her class in 2002. She received an LL.M. (Corporate Law) from New York University in 2005, where she was a Hauser scholar. Ms. Tiller is fluent in German.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Tiller worked for a leading Indian law firm in Mumbai, India. Between 2010 and 2012, she served as a member of the Finance group at an international law firm in Munich, Germany.