Virtual online conference (Time zone: British Summer Time)
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The past year has united the planet in a common goal, irrespective of whether we work in a developed or a developing economy: the need to defeat and manage the Covid-19 pandemic. However, whilst this goal has brought us closer, the consequences will inevitably highlight the ongoing differences between countries and regions. The need therefore to understand which are the relative gainers and those which still have even more to do, especially in a developing market context, becomes ever more apparent and important.
Bringing together experts in their fields across the EMEA developing markets, this virtual conference will help participants understand not just the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, but also the underlying challenges and opportunities in these markets.
With the chance to listen to virtual panel discussions, take part in interactive debates and to network online with LMA members around the world, register now to secure your place.
Registration is direct with our conference technology provider, WorkCast, and is very similar to registering for a webinar. As this is a virtual online event, registration is by individual (ie no group bookings) and only the contact details of the person attending the event should be used. Click the register button below to access the registration page.
Once you have registered, you will be given instructions nearer the time on how to join the virtual conference, which will be via a specific URL linking to the online conference platform. You will be required to enter your email address before entering the conference platform so make sure you register below using your work email address which will be the same email address you use to gain access on 28 April.
Please note, at present, there are no capacity restrictions on the number of people who can register from any one organisation or the number of people in total who can register. If you have any problems registering or have any questions, please contact registration.lmaevents@lma.eu.com.
Please note the conference timings are in British Summer Time.
THIS EVENT IS FOR LMA MEMBERS ONLY. DO NOT SHARE THE REGISTRATION LINK WITH NON-LMA MEMBERS.
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Duration: 28 April 2021, 8.30 - 18.30
Location: Virtual online conference (Time zone: British Summer Time)
Where next for DM loan syndication in a post Covid world? Market outlook for 2021
With the economic and political landscape still immensely uncertain, there is little doubt that 2021 will continue to be a volatile one for developing markets, irrespective of the jurisdiction. Panelists will provide their views on the outlook for the year ahead.
Boris Jaquet, EMEA Regional Head, Distribution & Credit Solutions - Deutsche Bank
Raouf Jundi, Managing Director - MUFG
Samta Lalan, Head of Syndication & Distribution: London - Nedbank
Jo Maharaj, Head Syndication & Distribution - RMB
Zain Zaidi, Managing Director, Loans and Acquisition Finance - Citi Bank
10:45
Break & Networking
11:15
Macro Update: Sub-Saharan Africa – A truly emerging region
The region’s amazing reaction to Covid-19 shows it shouldn’t be underestimated
Simon Quijano Evans, Chief Economist - Gemcorp Capital LLP
12:00
LIBOR discontinuance and its potential impact on developing market lending
Clare Dawson, Chief Executive - LMA
12:45
Lunch & Networking
Afternoon
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13:45
Credit risk mitigation strategies: now more important than ever?
A look at key risk mitigation techniques provided by DFIs, ECAs and Insurers and how these are driving deals and lending strategies in developing markets
Chair : Anouschka Zagorski, Head of English Law Finance, Financing and Capital Markets, Vienna - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Michael Emery, Head of Syndications - Europe, Central Asia, Middle East & North Africa, IFC
Benjamin Gibbons, Head of Credit & Political Risks, London - Miller
Jonathan Joseph-Horne, Managing Director, Global Head of Strategic Planning & Control, Global Trade Finance Department - SMBC
Angella Olobo, Investment Manager - Guarantco
Massimo Schirò, Legal Affairs Director - SACE
14:45
Stream A: Focus on CEE, CIS, Turkey and MENA
Chair : Eric Zimny, Managing Director, Head of CEEMEA Origination, Loan Capital Markets - SMBC Europe
Tonmoy Andalib, Managing Director, Head of Loan Syndicate, Distribution & Portfolio Management - First Abu Dhabi Bank
Daniel Borrego, Senior Banker, Loan Syndications - EBRD
Nabil Frik, Managing Director, Africa - British Arab Commercial Bank
Thorsten Lederer, Managing Partner - Panteo Global Partners, Luxembourg
Waldemar Rotfuss, Vice President - Deutsche Bank
14:45
Stream B: Focus on Sub Saharan Africa
• Which jurisdictions and sectors are the most active?
• The relevance of Covid 19 – impact and future outlook
• Relevance of risk mitigation tools
• The impact of international regulatory issues on SSA deals, including transition to RFRs
Chair : Steven Gamble , Vice-Chair: Africa Finance Practice - Covington
Miranda Abraham, Senior Syndications Transactor - RMB
Meredith Campanale, Partner - Mayer Brown
Patrick Mgbenwelu, Group Executive - FBNQuest Merchant Bank
Constantin von Moltke, Head of Syndication - Afrexim
Robert Ochola, Global Head & Director of Strategy & Innovation - Afrexim Bank
Amelia Slocombe, Managing Director & Head of Legal - LMA
Gene Vayngrib, CEO & Co-founder - Tradle
17:00
Close & Networking
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Baker McKenzie is the original global law firm. With 77 offices across 46 countries, we provide an instinctively global perspective and deep market knowledge to our clients around the world.
We bring the right talent to every client issue, regardless of where the client is. We partner with our clients to deliver solutions in the world’s largest economies, financial centres and developing markets. We call our global way of working ‘fluency’ because we partner with our clients seamlessly over time and across regions and business lines. With most financing transactions requiring execution in more than one jurisdiction, and local law requirements posing challenges that can significantly affect deal value, Baker McKenzie is exceptionally well positioned to help our clients navigate this complex environment.
Solving the most complex challenges, wherever and whenever they arise.
Our clients want a law firm that can handle the most complex transactions, manage the most challenging disputes and investigations, and devise the most flexible financing solutions. Our partners in Europe have decades of top-level experience in the key disciplines for European and global organisations. They work seamlessly with their peers in the US, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa, delivering domestic European advice of the highest quality and tackling the most challenging cross-border issues from an unrivalled international platform. All our lawyers know the markets as well as the law. We understand the cultural, political and economic factors at play, and the way national and international regulators operate – and cooperate. Where needed, we complement this with our StrongerTogether relationships. We can call on lawyers working with more than 300 core firms in 200 jurisdictions. This means each client gets a tailored team that combines our international experience with the best on-the-ground knowledge: whatever and wherever the job, clients always get the same superlative Freshfields quality.
Miller is a leading specialist insurance and reinsurance broker operating in Lloyd’s, London and international markets. Since our formation in 1902, we have built a worldwide reputation for delivering results through our in-depth expertise, sector knowledge and quality of relationships.
Operating from our London, Paris, Geneva and Singapore offices, Miller’s Credit and Political Risks team is a market leader in structuring insurance solutions for financial institutions, helping to manage credit risk and regulatory capital. We have a proven track record of assisting banks with the integration of Non-Payment Insurance as a credit risk mitigation product in accordance with the Basel Framework and the CRR.
Miller is a proud member of both the Loan Market Association and the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association.
Ranked as a Top 10 Global Law Firm, CMS services clients through 77 offices located in 71 cities across 43 countries worldwide. Four thousand, eight hundred CMS lawyers offer you business-focused advice across sectors, including financial institutions and services, advising on both local and cross-border transactions and projects.
CMS has always been deeply rooted in the Developing Markets, with longstanding experience in CEE, MENA and Africa.
We have the largest coverage in CEE. With 18 offices in Austria and CEE/SEE/CIS, we have 30+ years of experience advising leading financial institutions and corporates on the most complex and innovative projects and transactions in this part of the world.
With unparalleled experience in the MENA region, we have a unique footprint of offices across Algeria, Morocco, Oman, Turkey and the UAE, and associated offices in Iraq, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
We are also one of the most active law firms on the African continent, with our six offices located in dynamic African hubs: Algiers, Casablanca, Johannesburg, Luanda, Mombasa and Nairobi, and a longstanding network of local correspondents and trusted relationships with law firms in most other countries across the continent.
Covington is a leading international law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers practising from 13 offices across the globe. For more than 100 years, Covington has been a recognized international leader in representing sophisticated clients in highly regulated and specialized businesses in transactions, disputes, public policy, and regulatory affairs.
We practice as one firm, holding closely to our values that include a deep commitment to our clients and the quality of our work on their behalf, a constant emphasis on teamwork among our lawyers and other professionals, and a belief in the obligation of lawyers to make legal services available to all who need them.
Covington's international Project Development and Finance practice is one of the most recognized figures in the global project finance world, and represents clients on the acquisition, development, financing, restructuring, and divestiture of energy and infrastructure projects across the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Europe, India, and Asia.
Mayer Brown is a distinctively global law firm, uniquely positioned to advise the world’s leading companies and financial institutions on their most complex deals.
We are an integrated law firm with more than 1,600 lawyers across four continents. We have a significant emerging markets practice with dedicated teams covering Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa, as well as Latin America, the Middle East and Emerging Asia. We have deep experience in complex domestic and cross-border transactions across industry sectors, including our signature strength, the global financial services industry.
Our diverse teams of lawyers are recognised by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do. Our “one-firm” culture — seamless and integrated across all practices and regions — ensures that our clients receive the best of our knowledge and experience.
Founded in 1983, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie is a full service corporate and commercial law firm with offices in Nigeria’s key commercial centres and an affiliate in Ghana.
We are privileged to work with diverse local and international clients to create and implement innovative and practical solutions that facilitate business in Nigeria and beyond. When required, we are well placed to work with a select network of leading African and international law firms with whom we enjoy established, non-exclusive relationships.
The firm’s founding and core 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, including those that are new to Nigeria; generating innovative and practical legal solutions; facilitating complex, unusual transactions; and resolving disputes including those that are complex or unusual in our market, within a relatively short space of time.
We actively seek to refine our existing skills and to develop fresh ones. We consistently acquire new expertise across our practice areas, which enables us to respond quickly and effectively to the evolution and rapid changes of the economies and markets in which we and our clients operate. This approach enables us to set charges that reflect our knowledge and experience, rather than learning costs.
Our goal is to remain the preferred firm for facilitating corporate and commercial transactions and resolving disputes in the rapidly changing world of Nigerian and African business.
We are committed to supporting our members through these challenging times, and therefore we are pleased to deliver our Developing Markets conference in this new virtual format using the WorkCast technology platform. WorkCast virtual event software is cloud-based, secure and scalable, so we can safely and effectively take this conference online. The platform requires no plugins or downloads, so we can stream our conference to all our members wherever they are based. Delegates will be able to navigate around a virtual environment, where they can interact with speakers and sponsors, whilst visiting a number of different aspects, including: session auditorium, networking lounges/chat rooms, specific zones and sponsor/exhibitor booths. Within these areas, attendees can watch live presentations from speakers, exhibitors and sponsors.
How do I register?
In order to register for the conference, you will need to log in to the LMA website. If you do not have your own log-in details, you can register for these by following this link. Registration for the conference itself is through our virtual platform provider, WorkCast. Once you are logged into the LMA website, you will be able to access the link to the WorkCast registration page on the Conference web page.
How will I know if my registration has been successful ?
Once you have registered for the conference, you will receive an automated notification email from donotreply@workcast.com. If you have not received an email, please check your spam folders and speak to your IT team. You may need to re-register for the event once WorkCast has been added to your safe senders list. If you still do not receive the registration email, please contact the LMA on registration.lmaevents@lma.eu.com.
Is the virtual conference free to access ?
Yes, the conference is free of charge for all LMA members.
Are there restrictions on number of people who can attend?
At present, there are no capacity restrictions on the number of people who can register from any one organisation or the number of people in total who can register.
How do I access the virtual conference ?
If your registration has been successful, you will be given instructions nearer the time on how to join the conference which will be via a specific URL. You will be required to enter your email address before entering the conference platform so make sure you register using your work email address which will be the same email address you use to gain access on 28 April.
You can use either a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone to access the conference.
How do I interact with other attendees and speakers ?
Delegates can interact with each other, speakers and the LMA using the text-based real-time messaging system in the different networking chatrooms related to the different topics featured on the agenda.
There will also be a live chat function for delegates to interact with exhibitors when visiting their booths.
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