Platinum Sponsor

Baker McKenzie has provided sophisticated legal advice and services to many of the world's most dynamic and global organizations since our founding in 1949.

We represent a broad range of corporates, financial institutions and financial sponsors and advise both lenders and borrowers on every aspect of loan transactions from structuring, origination and negotiation to documentation and closing.

With a network of internationally experienced lawyers in 77 offices throughout the world including over 670 banking and finance lawyers located across our network of offices, we have extensive experience of working on cross-border and multijurisdictional financings, and have the ability to deliver the broad scope of quality legal services required to respond effectively to international and local needs.

Our lawyers, supporting professionals, and staff share common values of integrity, personal responsibility, and tenacity in an enthusiastic client-service culture. Our founders’ entrepreneurial spirit and demanding standards still guide us today. We constantly strive to forge close personal relationships among our professionals to foster the responsiveness and accountability clients expect.

www.bakermckenzie.com

Gold Sponsor

Latham is dedicated to working with clients to help them achieve their business goals and overcome legal challenges anywhere in the world. Latham’s global platform is composed of a single, integrated partnership focused on providing the most collaborative approach to client service.

Truly a “one-firm” firm – Latham has no headquarters, and firm management is spread throughout the world, allowing Latham to service clients with the best-suited teams regardless of location.

Latham is consistently ranked in the top tier by leading publications such as The American Lawyer, Financial Times, mergermarket, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500 and Asia Legal Business

The firm offers:

• Deep experience in successful enterprise-transforming transactions and in defending bet-the-company controversies
• A solutions-based approach, providing innovative and sound commercial advice
• Optimally sized teams that provide cost-effective and high-quality services
• A culture geared toward establishing and nurturing long-term client relationships
• More than 2,600 lawyers in 31 offices located in 14 countries

www.lw.com

Lunch Sponsor

Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie (“UUBO”) was founded in 1983 and is a full service corporate and commercial law firm with offices in three of Nigeria’s key commercial centres and an affiliate in Ghana. We work with national and multinational clients to create and implement innovative solutions that are designed to facilitate business in Nigeria and beyond. Many of our transactions extend beyond geographical boundaries and, where required, are ably supported by a select network of leading African and international law firms with whom we enjoy established, non-exclusive relationships.

The firm’s founding and current philosophy is that legal advice should be of the highest possible standard, accessible, commercially-oriented and consistently sound on principle. As a firm, we have developed a reputation for enabling a wide range of transactions, and for generating innovative legal solutions including for transactions that are complex in our market, within a relatively short space of time.

www.uubo.org