Co-Host
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Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, private equity, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of Dec 31, 2023, Ares Management Corporation's global platform had approximately $419 billion of assets under management with more than 2,600 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. For more information, please visit www.aresmgmt.com.
Partners
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Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary, and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. The additional context, perspective, and insights we provide help investors to make important credit judgments with confidence.
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McKinsey is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. We work with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all their stakeholders. We combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.
Supporting Partners
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Achmea Mortgages is the mortgage asset manager within Achmea, holding an AIFMD license. With a history of over 60 years, Achmea Mortgages manages assets for institutional investors. By the end of 2023, Achmea Mortgages manages over €29 billion in Dutch mortgages on behalf of more than 50 pension funds and other institutional investors under the brand names Centraal Beheer Leef Hypotheek, Syntrus Achmea Hypotheek, and Attens Hypotheek.
Associates
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Egan-Jones Ratings Company is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO). Egan-Jones rates the creditworthiness of issuers looking to raise capital in private credit markets across a range of asset classes. Website: egan-jones.com
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IQ-EQ is a global, top-tier investor services group with an unrivalled, tech-enabled offering to meet the administration, compliance and reporting needs of private markets players worldwide. We target our investment in technology to plug market gaps and meet specific client needs, such that our services are underpinned by a best-in-class global data platform and innovative proprietary tools supported by in-house experts.Operating as trusted partners to our clients, we deliver intelligent solutions through a combination of well-honed technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep understanding.With 5,800+ people across 25 jurisdictions, we have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 billion and work with 13 of the world’s top 15 private equity firms. Above all, what makes us different is our people. Operating as trusted partners to our clients, we deliver intelligent solutions through a combination of well-honed technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep understanding. We’re driven by our Group purpose, to power people and possibilities. We employ a global workforce of 5,000+ people across 25 jurisdictions and have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 billion. We work with 13 of the world’s top 15 private equity firms. Also part of the IQ-EQ group of companies are First National Trustee Company, The Private Office, ComplianceAsia and Lymon.
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K&L Gates is one of the largest law firms in the world with more than 45 offices located in key capital cities and world commercial and financial centers across five continents. Our broad platform offers clients local market knowledge and access to both national and international capabilities to help our clients navigate ever-changing landscapes. With the combined knowledge, resources, talent, and experience of nearly 1,800 lawyers and policy professionals, out global reach extends beyond our office locations to areas such as Africa, India, and the Caribbean.
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Levenue is Europe’s leading revenue-based financing marketplace, empowering businesses by providing fast, non-dilutive capital to fuel their growth. We enable companies to access funding based on their future revenue streams, helping them scale without giving up equity.
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With more than 150 structured finance lawyers in offices across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, Mayer Brown has one of the largest structured finance practices in the world—and with that size comes the knowledge, experience and manpower to tackle transactions of any scale in any jurisdiction. As financial markets become increasingly integrated, working with a law firm that understands the complexities and nuances of the key technologies and markets can deliver that elusive competitive edge. We are adept at handling the issues that arise as financial products converge and thrive on the challenges this presents. Drawing on our firm’s collective experience, we deliver creative, practical, business-oriented solutions no matter how a transaction evolves. Our team of lawyers has securitized nearly every conceivable asset type. When combined with our experience in the conduit, CDO, derivative and synthetic markets, we offer experienced teams with the intellectual depth and industry insight needed to assist clients as they explore and maximize both current and developing market opportunities. We have been a leader in the creation and expansion of the global and regional ABS and MBS markets and have securitized almost every asset type. Our mortgage-backed securities practice is comprehensive and international in scope. Our experience includes structuring securitizations of first-lien, home-equity and subprime residential mortgages, commercial mortgages and the resecuritization, repackaging and re-REMIC of MBS.
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S&P Global provides essential intelligence. We enable governments, businesses and individuals with the right data, expertise and connected technology so that they can make decisions with conviction. From helping our customers assess new investments to guiding them through ESG and energy transition across supply chains, we unlock new opportunities, solve challenges and accelerate progress for the world. We are widely sought after by many of the world's leading organizations to provide credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help the world's leading organizations plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com.
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We make a complex world simple TMF Group is a leading provider of critical administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the worldOur 9,100 experts and 120 offices in 85 jurisdictions worldwide serve corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, private clients and family offices, providing the combination of accounting, tax, payroll, fund administration, compliance and entity management services essential to global business success. We work with 60% of the Fortune Global 500 and FTSE 100, and almost half the top 300 private equity firms, covering sectors as diverse as capital markets, private equity, real estate, pharmaceuticals, energy and technology. TMF Group – we make a complex world simple. www.tmf-group.com
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With a global presence and staff of more than 1,200+ people, Walkers provides legal, tax and professional advisory services to the world's leading financial institutions and companies. Across our practice groups, jurisdictions and regions, we specialise in providing legal & tax advice and professional corporate services to the world's leading financial institutions, capital markets participants and managers. We work hard to understand the sectors and markets in which we operate so that we can go beyond simply resolving technical issues and actively add value for our clients by helping them to identify and seize opportunities. Across our 10 international offices we take in the big picture but always with a disciplined focus on our clients. We help make financial services work and are an acknowledged market leader with substantial experience in the provision of sophisticated and innovative legal, taxation and listing services across all types of ABS, securitisation, debt capital markets and other types of structured finance transactions.
Exhibitors
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Citadel SPV provides a comprehensive array of customized entity formation, governance, administration, accounting, and investor reporting services to the global capital markets. We take pride in our unique capacities for specialized services in complex financing structures including securitization, project finance and alternative or special situations finance. Our range of services allows our clients– who include issuers, arrangers, investors, and growing companies– to focus on their transactional goals while offloading governance and reporting responsibilities to an independent third-party provider with expertise in those areas. Headquartered in New York, Citadel SPV offers our clients a comprehensive network of global service delivery locations, either directly or via our partner network.
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Fox Legal Training (FLT) is a premier provider of specialised legal training for credit professionals in leveraged finance, private credit and investment banking and their advisors. Our mission is to equip professionals with the legal knowledge and skills to enhance risk assessment, streamline deal structuring and strengthen lender protections in today’s evolving financial markets.Why FLT?• Covenant Mastery: Understand key legal risks in credit agreements to assess covenant flexibility and restructuring scenarios• Real-World Application: Case study-driven courses led by industry experts• Flexible Learning Formats: On-demand courses, live workshops and in-house training tailored to financial institutions• Global Reach: Trusted by professionals across UK, Europe, US and Asia-Pacific.Who We Serve• Leveraged Finance Professionals• Credit Analysts & Portfolio Managers• Private Credit & Investment Teams• Legal & Restructuring ExpertsVisit our booth to discover how FLT’s training can elevate your team’s legal expertise, improve decision-making and mitigate risk.
Refreshment Break Sponsor
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Cascade is a global end-to-end technology platform built for the specialty finance and asset-based lending markets to help originators and investors streamline workflows from pre-deal diligence to post-close monitoring. Cascade cleans and validates data tapes by recalculating values from raw inputs, providing almost real-time visibility on performance metrics, borrowing bases, covenants, and more. Our users experience significant time savings on structuring and managing debt facilities, allowing them to scale debt portfolios without worrying about additional operational overhead. Backed by top VCs in the US, Cascade is one of the fastest growing platforms in the private credit space and works with over 80+ originators and over two dozen institutional investors.
Lead Association Partner
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The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is a buyside-only trade association comprised of of European credit investors from over 60 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisers, insurance companies, and pension funds. Our aim to create a stronger, more resilient leveraged finance market in Europe is supported through the initiatives, events, and resources developed by our members and our partners working together. Our engagement within the market has expanded significantly with now eight Initiative Committees representing investors in the high yield bond, leveraged loan, private debt and CLO asset classes. We also have a Diversity & Inclusion Committee, ESG Committee, Engagement Committee and a new AI Committee.
Media Partners
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9fin is the faster, smarter way to find debt market intelligence. Through an AI-powered data and analytics platform, 9fin centralises everything that's needed to analyse a credit or win a mandate in one place - helping subscribers win business, outperform their peers and save time.
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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with around 2,100 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage just over US$4 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets. AIMA draws upon the expertise and diversity of its membership to provide leadership in industry initiatives such as advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programmes and sound practice guides. AIMA works to raise media and public awareness of the value of the industry. AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 250 members that manage over US$2 trillion of private credit assets globally. AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) – the first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors).
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Alternative Credit Investor is the world’s leading resource on alternative credit. This online and print publication offers high-quality news, analysis, opinion, and features relating to alternative credit. Investors make up one of the largest segments of our audience, alongside industry professionals. Other readers come from the wider credit and fintech space, professional services, regulators, and government.We pride ourselves on up-to-the-minute coverage of the key topics impacting the alternative credit sector and its investors. The print version of the magazine comes out at the start of each month, complete with exclusive content. Alternativecreditinvestor.com offers daily news and analysis from Monday to Friday, alongside a daily and weekly e-newsletter. The magazine shines a spotlight on the most important industry issues, lets you know who’s changing jobs and seeks out the opinions of the people who matter most.To stay connected and be informed please subscribe today! Click here for subscription options. Visit www.alternativecreditinvestor.com
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The German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) is the voice and face of the private equity sector in Germany. We take a stand on policy issues and the media in an effort to underline how important private equity is for the German economy. We constantly monitor and analyse the market and respond to changes. We encourage our members to share their experiences with each other to help the private equity sector in Germany grow closer together.
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Financial Services Review is a leading technology magazine that reaches out to over 56,000 print subscribers and over 85,000 digital subscribers. It provides a comprehensive platform for senior-level industry experts, buyers, and decision-makers to share their insights following a unique learn-by-peers approach.
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The Fixed Income Investor Network (FIIN) officially took root in September 2018, springing from the collective insight of the ABS East Advisory Board of Investors. Tasked with shaping the event's content, the Board envisioned an investor-focused association uniquely poised to invigorate the Structured Finance sector. Distinct from other associations with broader scopes, FIIN stands as the exclusive investor-centric body in the marketplace, dedicated to fostering open dialogue, enhancing transparency, and facilitating efficient capital movement.Learn more at https://thefiin.org/
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The IMDDA is the leading and most affordable training platform and community for financial professionals in the world. Our mission is to empower our members to improve their knowledge and skills to accelerate their growth and development to advance in their careers. We do this by providing exceptional training, a vibrant community, and essential tools that make our members and their organizations more successful.
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IPE is a globally focused pan-European publisher with a target audience of pension funds, other relevant institutional investors, and those who work with them. Our award-winning and market-leading journalism, data and analysis informs professional decision makers working for leading asset owners, asset managers and their advisers. IPE has offices in London and Amsterdam, and is part of FD Mediagroep (FDMG).
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LevFin Insights, a CreditSights company, is the number 1 source for leveraged finance intel - providing breaking news, data, and analysis for global leveraged finance investors.CreditSights combines in-depth research, covenant analysis, breaking news, and data into one site to help you Know More. Risk Better.