ACIC 2026 Fall Annual Meeting and Education Conference
The Watergate Hotel
October 22-23, 2026
Step Right Up to the Greatest Show in Institutional Investing!
The spotlight is on Washington. The center ring is reserved for ACIC.
Chapman and Cutler LLP
Amanda Hoffman is a partner in Chapman’s Corporate Finance Department. Her practice is focused on the representation of insurance company, debt fund and asset manager clients in a variety of finance matters including institutional domestic private placements, credit tenant leases, contract backed bonds, real estate debt transactions, and project finance. She has spent the majority of her career at Chapman on the lender side of the transaction focused on structured transactions related to real property and leasing. Chapman’s Corporate Finance Department, with Amanda’s support, has recently expanded its practice to representing its institutional insurance company and asset manager clients in fund finance, including rated feeder fund transactions.
Amanda has prior experience in senior, first-lien, second-lien and mezzanine financings and structures in connection with private equity leveraged buy-outs and for general corporate purposes and has managed preliminary stages of restructurings and workouts.
Northwestern Mutual
Chrissy Rittberg is an Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary on the Institutional Investments team in the Northwestern Mutual Law Department. She primarily advises Northwestern Mutual and its subsidiaries in connection with NM’s public and private investment portfolios and negotiates a wide variety of investment transactions, including securitizations, structured debt, fund finance, private credit, private placements, project finance, and preferred and common equity. She also advises on related workouts, restructurings and liability management transactions.
Prior to joining NM, Chrissy practiced law at Foley & Lardner LLP for more than 11 years, advising public and private companies on complex domestic and international financing arrangements. While at Foley, Chrissy regularly volunteered with the Wills for Heroes program preparing estate planning documents for first responders throughout the State of Wisconsin.
Chrissy is active in the American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC), where she serves on the Transaction Process Management Committee and the Education Committee and is co-chair of the upcoming Fall 2026 ACIC industry conference.
She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Master of Accountancy in Taxation from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and attended the University of Minnesota Law School. Chrissy is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and is a Certified Public Accountant.
