Lead Sponsors

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 financial sponsors, corporate entities and financial institutions, and advise 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 and over 670 banking and finance lawyers worldwide, 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

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company’s strength – delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately – is at the core of the Bloomberg Terminal. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength: leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. For more information, visit www.bloomberg.com or request a demo .

www.bloomberg.com

Moody's Investors Service is a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. Moody's commitment and expertise contributes to transparent and integrated financial markets, and the firm's ratings and analysis track debt covering approximately 120 sovereign nations, 11,000 corporate issuers, 21,000 public finance issuers, and 72,000 structured finance obligations.

www.moodys.com

Lunch Sponsor

CMS is the 6th largest law firm by lawyer headcount. Our 400 banking and finance lawyers, working across 70 offices in 39 countries, have the expertise and firepower to support you on your largest, most complex corporate and commercial finance transactions as well as providing day-to-day strategic advice across all your financings. We act for a full range of lenders, corporates and sponsors across the entire spectrum of financing transactions, including corporate loans, acquisition financings, real estate finance, infrastructure, asset and project finance. The merger between CMS, Nabarro and Olswang, effective 1 May 2017, has enhanced our finance offering to borrowers in our key sectors, as well as transforming what we can do for financial sector clients in areas such as fintech, funds, real estate and outsourcing. Our sector-based approach guarantees that you’ll be working with lawyers who really understand your business.

www.cms.law

Cocktail Sponsor

Our financing specialists offer a first class service to both lenders and borrowers across the spectrum of financing matters and products, from the plain vanilla to the most complex arrangements that challenge market norms.

We have a wide perspective on the market, advising both lenders and borrowers on investment grade and sub-investment grade financings. Our multi-specialist financing lawyers are involved from the start and can adapt to any financing scenario. Our teams are as lean as they can be, which makes transactions much easier to manage, speeds the process up and often saves money. Clients also benefit from our outstanding regulatory knowledge, which enables us to provide technically sound, creative solutions. This multi-specialist approach forms the bedrock of many of the innovative approaches we have taken to solving legal problems on different types of deal.

The majority of our financing transactions involve a cross-border element. We work closely with the leading independent law firms in the major financial centres to deliver the same first class service globally.

www.slaughterandmay.com

Sponsor

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.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of credit market data, analytical tools and risk services; BMI Research, an independent provider of country risk and industry analysis specializing in emerging and frontier markets; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is majority owned by Hearst.

www.fitchratings.com

Exhibitors

At ClearStructure Financial Technology, we offer cloud-based systems for both the buy-side and the sell-side markets. Our Sentry solution suite helps simplify your bank loan and private loan management while delivering total transparency.

Our portfolio management system, Sentry PM™, is a front-to-back office system which tracks loan investments from idea to trade to management and administration. In addition to loans, Sentry PM handles multiple asset types and fund structures including Hedge Funds, Direct Lending, SMAs and CLOs. For loan trading, we offer Sentry LT™, a powerful and flexible platform to improve efficiency in your trading operations. Sentry solutions are used by top financial institutions around the world for their loan trading and management needs.

www.clearstructure.com.

Cortland’s investment professionals deliver independent administrative, analytical, and accounting solutions to institutional investors across the globe. Cortland’s loan services group provides loan administration, trade settlement, and fully featured administrative agency and successor agency services.

Cortland provides CLO Managers a comprehensive middle-and-back office solution to manage CLOS, SMAs, and funds. Services include hypothetical trade analyses, trade settlement, compliance and waterfall modeling, managing rating and pricing feeds, and bespoke management reporting.

www.cortlandglobal.com/

HQ’d in London, Finastra is the largest FinTech in Europe – formed from the merger of Misys and D+H in 2017. With a client base of over 9,000 customers, including 48 of the top 50 banks globally, most at the LMA conference will be familiar with Finastra’s market-leading lending solution FusionBanking Loan IQ (used by 16 of the top 25 loan bookrunners).

Finastra unlocks the potential of people and businesses in finance, creating a platform for open innovation. We provide the broadest portfolio of financial services software in the world today—spanning retail banking, transaction banking, lending, and treasury and capital markets. Our solutions enable customers to deploy mission critical technology on premises or in the cloud. Our scale and geographical reach means that we can serve customers effectively, regardless of their size or geographic location—from global financial institutions, to community banks and credit unions. Through our open, secure and reliable solutions, customers are empowered to accelerate growth, optimize cost, mitigate risk and continually evolve to meet the changing needs of their customers. 48 of the world’s top 50 banks use Finastra technology.

Finastra. The future of finance is open.

www.finastra.com

GLAS is a global, independent, conflict-free provider of loan agency and corporate trustee services. We provide a front office approach to typically back office services and have expertise in handling complex transactions proactively, with speed and flexibility whilst focusing on customer service. GLAS is solution-driven with extensive experience working alongside our clients as an Agent on unitranche transactions. We are the Agent of choice on restructuring transactions where there is a need to change the Agent or Trustee. We are based in London, with offices in New York, New Jersey, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore.