20 September 2022, 09:00 - 17:30, followed by drinks/networking reception
QEII Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE
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It is with regret that, due to the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II taking place in Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19th September, we have to cancel our annual conference at the QE II Centre the following day. We have been informed by the management of the QE II Centre that due to the Centre's proximity to the Abbey they will be unable to hold any events for a period of time up to and including 20th September, and have therefore had to cancel our booking.
We would like to thank you once again for your interest in this year's LMA Syndicated Loans Conference, and apologise for any inconvenience this cancellation has caused. We hope for your understanding at this historic and difficult time.
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Morning Session
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08:15
Registration
09:00
Welcome and update from the LMA
Clare Dawson, Chief Executive - LMA
09:20
Heads of syndication
Market outlook, structure and volumes
Key challenges and opportunities
Loan market after COVID-19
What is the normal?
Investor appetite
Chair : Charlotte Conlan, Vice Chair, Global Leveraged Finance - BNP Paribas
Asa Samuelsson, Head of Loan Syndications - SEB
Ben Thompson, Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance Capital Markets - JP Morgan
Eric Zimny, Managing Director, Co-Head of Corporate Origination, Loan Capital Markets, EMEA - SMBC Europe
Jonathan Butler, Managing Director - PGIM
Miranda Abraham, Head of Loan Syndications - RMB
10:10
Economic outlook
Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist - S&P Global Market Intelligence
10:40
Refreshments
11:10
Circuit-breaking: the final steps in transitioning from LIBOR
Global perspective on what remains to be done to transition fully from LIBOR
RFR-based liquidity and lending powering on
Focus on legacy transition (especially June 2023 deadline)
What loan market participants need to be doing
Chair : Clare Dawson, Chief Executive - LMA
Doug Laurie, Director , Head of Strategic Change, Wholesale Lending Business - Barclays
Neil McLeod, Head of Group Treasury Markets - Erste Group Bank AG
Paolo Fioretti, Associate Director, Senior Counsel - EBRD
Tom Wipf, Chairman - ARRC / Vice-Chairman - Morgan Stanley
11:45
Risk rewired: the investor schematic
The credit
environment – risk of shocks or well-earthed?
Handling price
volatility
Managing supply
outages
Changing
polarity – more on buyside terms?
Chair : Jeremy Selway, Managing Director- Deutsche Bank
Madelaine Jones, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager - Oaktree Capital
Michael Craig, Head of European Senior Loans, Senior Portfolio Manager - Invesco
Robert Reynolds, Managing Director, Head of CLO - Pemberton Capital Advisors
Sebastian Potocean, Managing Director - Barings
12:30
Lunch
Afternoon session
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13:45
Transition finance: making sustainability a reality
Transition is a concept that has been increasingly scrutinised over the past few years, at a macro (regulatory) and micro (transaction based) level. This panel will look to shed light on the term, and delve into why the financing of transition is essential in enabling countries to meet the 2030 Agenda.
Chair : David Milligan, Partner - Norton Rose Fulbright
Juho Maalahti, Country Lead Finland, Sustainable Finance Advisory - Nordea
Marthe Lamp Sandvik, First Vice President, Energy Transition Solutions - DNB Bank
Robert Spruijt, EMEA Head Sustainable Finance - ING
14:30
Regulation: when is enough, enough?
Chair : Nicholas Voisey, Managing Director - LMA
Caroline Dawson, Partner - Clifford Chance
David Quirolo, Partner - Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Simon Gleeson, Partner - Clifford Chance
15:10
Refreshments
15:40
Geopolitics and the loan market in 2022
David Chmiel, Managing Director - Global Torchlight
16:10
Thinking ahead: the outlook for the real estate finance market in 2022 and beyond
Looking ahead, this panel will explore the key trends that look set to shape the real estate finance market in 2022 and beyond.
Chair : Scott Simpson, Partner - Linklaters
Andrew Shepherd, Managing Director - TopHat Solutions
Andy McDonald, Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Finance - HSBC
Dominic Smith, Senior Director, Credit Research - CBRE
Henri Vuong , Executive Director and Head of real Estate Debt Investment Research - PGIM
16:50
A product for our time: the role of credit risk insurance as a risk mitigation tool
Volumes – where are they coming from?
What does the future of the market look like?
What is the current regulatory environment in
a European context?
The LMA model form
Chair : Lise Kessler, Global Head of Credit Risk Insurance - Credit Agricole CIB
Amelia Slocombe, Managing Director & Head of Legal - LMA
Charles Morris , Senior Associate - Clifford Chance
Gary Lowe, Global Head of Credit Insurance - Standard Chartered
Sian Aspinall , Managing Director - BPL Global
17:30
Close and networking reception
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Lead Sponsor
GLAS was established in 2011 as an independent provider of institutional debt administration services. The company was originally created to provide the market a willing participant in complex loan restructuring transactions where many large institutions are reluctant to take swift and cooperative action. It offers a wide range of administration services developed specifically for the debt market. GLAS is recognised as the premier independent, non-creditor, conflict-free provider of loan agency and bond trustee services, with excess of EUR 200bn of assets under administration on a daily basis.
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We have more than 4,000 lawyers based in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and natural resources; transport; technology; consumer markets; life sciences and healthcare. We aim to leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.
Our corporate lending practice advises corporate borrowers, banks and other debt providers, financial advisers, private equity sponsors on finance matters. Our global footprint means we bring expert local knowledge in key business centre jurisdictions, and our ability to staff multi-jurisdictional deals using solely Norton Rose Fulbright personnel means we offer a streamlined service in jurisdictions relevant to clients’ deals and projects.
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
Finastra is a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, and launched the leading open platform for innovation, FusionFabric.cloud, in 2017.
It serves institutions of all sizes, providing award-winning solutions and services across Lending, Payments, Treasury & Capital Markets and Retail & Digital Banking for banks to support direct banking relationships and grow through indirect channels, such as embedded finance and Banking as a Service.
Its pioneering approach and commitment to open finance and collaboration is why it is trusted by 8,600 institutions, including 90 of the world’s top 10 banks.
CSC is a provider of specialized administration services. We support alternative asset managers across a range of fund strategies, capital markets participants in both public and private markets, and corporations requiring fiduciary and governance support. We are the unwavering partner for 90% of the Fortune 500®, nearly 10,000 law firms, and more than 3,000 financial institutions. CSC's professionals are located in key financial centers across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
We are an international company capable of transacting wherever our clients are, and we accomplish that by deploying experts in every market we serve.
LMA.Automate is the LMA's document automation, negotiation and execution platform designed to help support loan market efficiency. Since its launch in June 2021, subscribers have benefitted from a secure, private, cloud-based platform that enables them to create documents, collaborate with colleagues, negotiate with external counterparties and create their own automated templates based on LMA precedents.
With clear use cases for law firms and financial institutions, an intuitive, flexible user interface and an established roadmap for additional documents, including a bilateral facility agreement, the platform has many benefits for LMA members at minimal cost.
The platform facilitates the effective digitisation of the loan documentation process by establishing data points which can be used both for insights and analytics through the platform and in downstream systems and processes via APIs.
We are pleased to offer LMA members a 30-day free trial on the platform and are happy to provide guidance during the free trial and beyond to ensure subscribers get the most out of this great tool for their business.
vc trade is the central marketplace for all loan and private debt transactions. Based on innovative and highly secure technology, vc trade builds digital end-to-end processes and workflows that cover the entire value chain to create a one stop shop solution for the lending markets.
The digital platform fosters legally binding deal execution, covers complete front-to-back lifecycle processes and sets new standards in terms of digital record of ownership and a fully-fledged digital KYC process. Realtime document collaboration and execution via embedded e-signature complete the digital service offering and increase efficiency while manually driven processes are eliminated. Developed in close collaboration with our clients, the platform addresses process enhancements long desired in the primary and secondary loan markets. Numerous well-known corporates have already used vc trade in connection with their corporate financing thereby underpinning vc trade’s mission of setting of new digital standards in loan syndication. Since inception in 2018, total issuance volumes exceed EUR 30 billion, spanning 190 issuances and 17 arrangers syndicating transactions to more than 900 national and international investors on vc trade.
A hybrid conference is a
conference you can attend either in-person or remotely via a virtual conference
platform.
How do I register to attend
in-person?
Please click the "Register now" button in the "Attend
in-person" section in the "Details" tab and follow the process.
Note that you will need to be logged into your LMA user account to be able to
process with registration. You should receive an automatic email stating that
your registration has come through. Your registration will then be processed
and you will received a formal confirmation email or a waitlist notification
within 3 working days.
If you encounter any issue with your registration please reach
out to registration.lmaconference@lma.eu.com, stating "LMA Syndicated Loans Conference in-person registration" in the subject
line.
How do I register to attend
virtually?
Please click on the "Register now" button in the "Reserve
your Virtual Place" section in the "Details" tab. Note that you
will need to be logged into your LMA user account to be able to process with
registration. You should receive an automatic email stating that your
registration has come through. Your registration will then be processed and you
will received a formal confirmation email within 3
working days.
If you encounter any issue with your registration please reach
out to registration.lmaconference@lma.eu.com, stating "LMA Syndicated Loans Conference virtual registration" in the subject
line.
Is the conference free to
attend?
Yes, the conference is free of charge for all LMA members,
whether they attend in-person or virtually.
I have a confirmed place for
in-person attendance, can I swap for virtual attendance?
Yes, if you have a confirmed place for in-person attendance, you
can swap your place for a virtual one at any time. Firstly, please make sure to
email registration.lmaconference@lma.eu.com to cancel your
in-person place so that it can be re-allocated to someone on the waitlist. Then
you will be able to proceed and register for a virtual place.
I have a virtual place, can I
swap to attend in-person?
If you have a registered to attend virtually but now wish to
attend in person, you can register directly under the "Attend in
person" section and follow the process. Depending on the number of places
left available at the venue, you will either get a confirmed place, or you will
be placed on the waitlist. You will receive a formal notification from us
either way.
We would recommend that you still keep your virtual place so
that you can access the conference platform on the day in case you do not get a
confirmed place for in-person attendance.
How do I access the conference
virtually?
If you have registered successfully, you will receive the access
link closer to the time.
You can use either a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or
smartphone to access the conference.
