Jesús Payán

Mr. Payán joined Crestline in 2006 and heads Crestline’s Legal and Compliance team.
Mr. Payan is responsible for overseeing a broad variety of legal, compliance and operational matters on behalf of the Firm including launching new products, serving as legal department touch-point for investor and counterparty relationships, attending to strategic growth and expansion opportunities and internal matters such as employee matters and overseeing the compliance department.
In addition, he is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee, a participant in the Opportunistic Investment Committee meetings, serves as secretary for the Firm’s Board of Directors, sits on the Firm’s reinsurance company Board of Directors and is integrally involved in the structuring, legal diligence and closing of investment opportunities.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Payan worked at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as an Investment Fund/Corporate Attorney where he was responsible for advising and structuring hedge funds, private equity funds, fund of funds and a closed-end registered investment company in a variety of jurisdictions including the United States, Cayman Islands, BVI, Bermuda and the United Kingdom.
Additionally, he has experience with the creation, implementation and review of regulatory compliance programs.
Mr. Payan has a J.D., a B.A.
in History, and a B.A.
in Ethnic Studies from the University of Texas.
Mr. Payan also serves as a Trustee since 2009 and Member of the Investment Committee and Chairman of the Legislative Committee for the City of Fort Worth Employees’ Retirement Fund and serves on the Board of Directors of Capital for Kids.
In 2022 Mr. Payan was recognized as General Counsel of the Year, small legal department, by the DFW Association of Corporate Counsel.