Syndicated Loans Conference

Lead Sponsors

International law firm Clifford Chance combines the highest global standards with local expertise. Leading lawyers from different backgrounds and nationalities come together as one firm, offering unrivalled depth of legal resources across the key markets of Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

The firm focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: banking & finance; capital markets; corporate and M&A; real estate; tax, pensions and employment, and litigation and dispute resolution. Through a strong understanding of clients' cultures and objectives, Clifford Chance draws on the full breadth of its legal skills to provide results-driven, commercial advice.

www.cliffordchance.com

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. IHS Markit has more than 50,000 key business and government customers, including 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the world’s leading financial institutions. Headquartered in London, IHS Markit is committed to sustainable, profitable growth.

www.ihsmarkit.com

S&P Global Ratings is the world’s leading provider of independent credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence. We have more than 1 million credit ratings outstanding on government, corporate, financial sector and structured finance entities and securities. We offer an independent view of the market built on a unique combination of broad perspective and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain independent information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence.

www.spglobal.com/ratings

Cocktail Sponsor

Baker & McKenzie defined the global law firm. With 77 offices across six continents, we provide an instinctively global perspective and deep market knowledge to our clients around the world. As our clients expand into new markets, we are there with them, sharing an unrivalled experience and helping them succeed in new regions. We call our global way of working ‘fluency’ because we partner with our clients seamlessly over time and across regions and business lines.

www.bakermckenzie.com

Lunch Sponsor

Banwo & Ighodalo was established on 1st February, 1991 with a determination on the part of the founding partners to create a world class law firm.

Banwo & Ighodalo has evolved and we continue to equip ourselves to serve our clients better and provide exceptional results.

We are known in our markets for excellent mastery of legal issues and the development of creative solutions. Our lawyers are young, dynamic and driven; and we deliberately recruit and train for innovation, knowledge and the ability to create solutions for our clients.

The Firm is consistently listed as 1st-tier and a firm of choice in Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisition, Corporate Finance, Energy & Natural Resources and Intellectual Property.

Both the firm on one hand, and its partners and some associates on the other hand, are ranked in several leading Nigerian and international legal directories.

www.banwo-ighodalo.com

Exhibitors

Cortland’s experienced syndicated bank loan professionals deliver independent administrative, analytical, and accounting solutions to asset management and commercial lending clients worldwide. Cortland’s loan services group provides loan administration, trade settlement, administrative agency, and successor agency services.

For current and new CLO managers, Cortland provides a market leading middle-back office solution. Cortland supports CLO managers with all necessary services and systems to administer, model, calculate and monitor their CLO mandates. Services include full compliance and waterfall modeling, reporting, and trustee reconciliation. Cortland’s CLO manager services also include support with trade analysis and rating agency packaging.

For investors that trade in public names, Cortland provides material non-public information (MNPI) firewall that protects and directs information flow.

Cortland clients include hundreds of private and public investment firms and institutional investors including several of the largest lenders and asset managers in the world. Cortland also provides fund administration, commercial bank loan servicing, and securitization services. Cortland is SSAE16 SOC I Type II certified.

www.cortlandglobal.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, Australia, and Singapore.

Ipreo powers the networks that connect capital to ideas. We are a leading global provider of financial services technology, data and analytics, supporting and connecting all participants in the capital-raising process, including banks, public and private companies, institutional and individual investors, as well as research, asset management and wealth management firms. Our unique, cross-asset class solutions equip our clients with the information and tools they need for more effective decision-making and a more efficient workflow. Ipreo has more than 1000 employees serving clients in every major financial hub around the world. Debtdomain is Ipreo’s leading global platform for the loan market covering primary syndication, secondary trading and loans agency.

For more information, visit www.ipreo.com and www.debtdomain.com.