Syndicated Loans Conference 24 September 2019, London

Lead Sponsors

Clifford Chance is one of the world's pre-eminent law firms, with significant depth and range of resources across five continents. We are committed to helping our clients achieve their goals by providing commercially focused legal advice of the highest quality that will consistently exceed their expectations.

We combine the highest global standards of business and law with local excellence of service and maintain the depth, quality and scale of resources necessary to meet our clients' needs whenever and wherever they arise. Our clients include lenders, financial investors, corporates, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations.

We have an open, approachable style and believe in the power of collaboration and teamwork. To be at the forefront of the legal profession requires foresight and a willingness to have a voice on issues of importance. We have the confidence to challenge existing thinking, to push boundaries and to embrace new ideas.

www.cliffordchance.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 Paris, New York, New Jersey, Sydney, Brisbane and Singapore.

www.glas.agency

S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc. (NYSE: SPGI), is a leading provider of credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence.

With more than 1.1 million credit ratings outstanding, approximately 1,400 credit analysts and a presence in 28 countries, we offer a unique combination of global coverage and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide.

www.spglobal.com/ratings

Lunch Sponsor

Latham & Watkins is a leading global law firm serving multinationals, start-ups, investment banks, private equity funds, venture capital firms, sovereign wealth funds, governments, and other organisations from its offices across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Latham lawyers offer legal and strategic commercial thinking to provide clients with innovative solutions to complex business and legal matters.

The firm is internationally recognised for its practices across a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate, and regulatory areas, and has received considerable market recognition for the handling of landmark matters. Latham is committed to pro bono and community service, providing approximately 245,000 hours of pro bono work in 2018 and more than 3.5 million hours since 2000, valued at US$1.6 billion.

www.lw.com

Breakfast Sponsor

As corporate customers and investors adapt to more digital experiences in their personal lives, the desire for instant, digital access to information and services from their bankers has also grown.

With FIS’ commercial lending solutions, you can deliver that exceptional customer experience and reduce costs at the same time. Whether you’re working with a small-to-medium enterprise or a complex multinational corporation offering highly-structured syndications, you can choose from a complete solution for the entire commercial loan process including Origination; Risk-Rating Analytics; Syndications; Servicing & Trading or specific modules based on your individual needs. FIS’ configurable solution suite streamlines your commercial lending operations so that you can focus on adding value and improving customer service; accelerate the commercial lending journey and drive growth.

www.fisglobal.com

Cocktail Sponsor

Clarilis is a market leading automation platform and team of automation specialists with a unique approach to automation. Data is gathered in relation to a matter (often from multiple sources) and stored in a highly structured data model. This data is used to draft suites of documents and to drive other processes.

A significant proportion of our automation projects are delivered to banking and finance teams. Clarilis regularly delivers complex automation projects in relation to LMA derived precedents to firms such as Addleshaw Goddard, Baker McKenzie, Simmons & Simmons and Travers Smith. Our intuitive platform is also used to deliver, for example, fund documentation, security packages and legal opinions.

The Clarilis team consists of PSLs (each averaging 15 years+ PQE), technical experts and automators. This combination of technical skills and experience is unique and allows us to implement, deliver and maintain complex document automation projects which provide a solid ROI for client firms and in-house teams.

www.clarilis.info

Exhibitors

An increasing number of top asset managers, lenders and family offices around the globe choose Alter Domus as their partner of choice.

Whether you manage a small stand-alone fund with a limited number of investments or a large multi-billion dollar buyout fund with a complex stream of investments in multiple jurisdictions, we understand your world.

Our vertically integrated approach provides you with solutions across the entire value chain of investment structures, from middle office support at fund level, all the way down to local special purpose vehicles and property companies. Our talent pool of over 2,200 employees apply their expertise daily to let you stay focused on your core activities.

We offer you a comprehensive range of services spanning fund administration, corporate services, agency services, CLO collateral administration, credit and structured product services, depositary services, transfer pricing, wealth administration, domiciliation, and management company services, thus providing you a more streamlined process.

www.alterdomus.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.

www.bloomberg.com/professional/

Finastra provides the broadest, deepest portfolio of financial services software in the world. We deliver mission-critical solutions for financial institutions of all sizes, on premises or in the cloud.

Our open architecture and approach embraces a wide eco-system of partners and co-innovators. Together we are leading the way in which applications are written, deployed and consumed in the world of financial services.

Finastra offers the most comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end loan management software in commercial, consumer, mortgage and syndicated lending, from origination to servicing.

www.Finastra.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 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

Ocorian specialise in offering an independent loan administration service. We work across a diverse range of loan structures with particular expertise in private equity, project finance, real estate and the aviation and shipping industries.

Our team provide exceptional service while building enduring partnerships with our clients. We are committed to understanding our client's needs and providing bespoke solutions, enabling clients to focus on what they do best; running their core business.

Our comprehensive, conflict-free range of services include acting as facility agent, security trustee, calculation agent, registrar, transfer agent, reporting agent and taking on the successor roles in restructured transactions.

www.ocorian.com/service/loan-administration

TMF Group is a leading global provider of high-value business services to clients operating and investing globally.

We help clients operate internationally and ‘belong’ wherever they are in the world. We do this by making sure they are properly set up to do business in any country, compliant with local and international regulations.

Our work includes helping companies of all sizes with business services such as HR and payroll, accounting and tax, corporate secretarial, global governance and administration services for capital markets, private equity and real estate investments.

In today’s environment, increasing business complexity means that a one size approach doesn’t fit all - and the penalties for getting it wrong are heavy. Operating in over 83 jurisdictions we provide our clients with on-the-ground compliance and administration services so they can venture further. We keep things running seamlessly, giving them the peace of mind to focus on the bigger picture.

www.tmf-group.com/