Alter Domus

Many leading international asset managers, lenders and asset owners choose Alter Domus as their partner for growth. Whether a stand-alone fund with limited investments, or a large multi-billion-dollar fund with complex investment streams across multiple jurisdictions, we understand your world. Our deep knowledge of the alternative investment industry underpins our technology and informs our decision-making.

We know first-hand the technical complexities and operational challenges you face. And by tapping into a talent pool of more than 3,600 employees worldwide, we can leverage our expertise and cutting-edge technology to put you ahead of the game.

Vertical integration allows us to build dedicated teams to provide support and bespoke solutions for the entire value chain and across our extensive range of services. With an established professional focus on private equity, real assets and debt capital markets sectors, we offer fund administration, corporate services, depositary services, capital administration, transfer pricing, domiciliation and management company services. Our specific experience in the debt capital markets sector allows us to provide loan administration, agency services, trade settlement and CLO manager services.

Whether a local or a global player, our successful track record and established network of 36 offices in 21 countries around the world ensure that we are where you need us to be.

Intex

Intex is the industry’s leading provider of cashflow models and analytics, with over 40,000 CLO, ABS, RMBS and CMBS deals modeled from around the globe. Intex is relied upon by hundreds of arrangers, investors, issuers and others for complete, accurate and timely cashflow models used in trading, portfolio management and risk management applications. Intex's applications include INTEXcalc for single-security and portfolio analysis and cashflow stress-testing, the INTEX Subroutine API for system builders, and INTEX DealMaker for structuring new deals. Intex is an independent, objective and privately-held company with offices in Massachusetts, London and Shanghai. Visit our website at www.intex.com

Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins advises the businesses and institutions that power the global economy. We leverage the firm's top-tier strength in Asia, the US, Europe, and the Middle East to seamlessly advise market participants on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including front-end direct lending and leveraged finance, corporate reorganizations, restructurings and insolvencies, distressed investing and special situations, PIPE transactions, preferred equity and convertible debt, asset-backed securitisations and financings, infrastructure financings, project finance, buyouts, carve-outs, asset M&A, activist transactions, venture capital investments and capital raising. With a comprehensive view across different investment strategies, Latham’s lawyers advise clients on all aspects of their business in deploying private capital, from fund formation, fundraising, and regulatory matters to analyzing, structuring, and executing transactions and portfolio management.

Latham advises the broadest range of market participants across the full spectrum of bespoke financing solutions. We bring exceptional insight to hybrid instrument transactions, having advised on countless market-leading hybrid deals to fill the gaps in capital structures between senior debt and control equity, and to finance acquisitions, growth, dividend recaps, fund liquidity solutions, and rescue financings.

We have been at the forefront of the evolution of the private credit markets. With our breadth of experience and deep investor relationships across the largest direct lenders can rely on our comprehensive understanding of the market and proven track record in closing transactions with cutting-edge terms.

We are one of very few firms with a market-leading restructuring and insolvency practice in Asia and globally. As a firm, Latham has assisted hundreds of banks, hedge funds, private equity sponsors, borrowers and issuers in cross-border restructurings and enabled them to navigate complicated situations and come out better off at the other end of the transaction. In order to deliver a successful restructuring, the firm draws on its extensive legal experience in global finance and restructuring transactions, and resources from across our many offices worldwide. We are also known for our ability to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions to help our clients achieve their goals.

Milbank

Milbank LLP has one of the world’s leading CLO practices. Since the inception of CLOs, Milbank has represented market-leading arrangers, collateral managers, issuers, risk retention lenders, anchor investors and derivatives counterparties on a multitude of credit arbitrage transactions involving a diverse array of asset classes. 

Milbank LLP’s Structured Credit team was ranked as the #1 Global CLO Manager counsel and as the #1 US CLO Manager counsel in Creditflux’s 2021 year-end Advisory Firm Rankings. For the last five years, Milbank has remained at the top of the publication’s global rankings and for the last four years, the firm has remained at the top of the US rankings. Milbank has also been ranked by Creditflux as the #2 CLO Manager Counsel in Europe for 2021. The publication’s league table rankings show that Milbank’s global structured credit team worked on 280 CLO issuances in 2021 valued at approximately US$131 billion. This is in addition to Milbank’s significant representation of arrangers and anchor investors on CLOs. Milbank’s CLO team was also named #1 Issuer Counsel for US CLOs by Asset-Backed Alert in the publication’s 2021 year-end rankings. Milbank’s CLO practice and our attorneys continue to be a top-ranking firm in the areas of structured finance and securitizations (including CLOs) by Chambers, Legal500 and IFLR1000 with partners Jay Grushkin and Sean Solis highlighted on Chambers and Partners’ Spotlight Table on CLOs. In 2021 and 2019, Sean Solis was named Lexology’s exclusive winner of the Client Choice Award for Securitization & Structured Finance in New York. 

Our rankings reflect a unique combination of success in the CLO markets not only in both the United States and Europe, but also in the blend of our clients across the spectrum of both collateral managers and arrangers. The breadth of our client base gives us a unique perspective on the differing approaches of market players that enables us to make our documents state of the art, while maintaining efficiency and economy in our work product.

Moody's Analytics

Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. Our deep risk expertise, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology help our clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. We are known for our industry-leading and award-winning solutions, made up of research, data, software, and professional services, assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience. We create confidence in thousands of organizations worldwide, with our commitment to excellence, open mindset approach, and focus on meeting customer needs.

Prytania Solutions

PSL (Prytania Solutions Ltd) are an independent specialist service provider focused in the structured credit markets. With a dedicated team of quantitative analysts and ex-market professionals using state of the art technology the main emphasis is on providing independent valuations in the European ABS and MBS markets and the Global CLO market. Using machine learning and a very powerful cashflow analytics engine PSL deliver evaluated prices on 24,000+ ISINs daily along with valuations/analysis on a bespoke basis. PSL are a prime provider to bank’s IPV units, Securities Financing desks, lending platforms, Insurance and Asset Mangers globally. With regard to CLOs, equity tranche prices have become more in demand, given the asset/liability spreads and market volatility, from majority and minority holders alike. PSL undertake a deep drill analysis of the collateral building our own loan level cash flow models and re-calculate CPRs and CDRs alongside manager analysis. PSL have developed Global CLO Spread Indices which can be accessed on our web based portal. Total Return Indices are currently being beta tested with a launch targeted for Q3 2021. PSL are ISAE 3402 certified.

Sidley Austin

Sidley Austin is recognised as a global leader in advising on all aspects of CLOs in both Europe and the U.S. Our CLO teams in London, New York, Chicago and L.A. sit within the firm’s top-ranked Global Finance group that spans both sides of the Atlantic and Asia. With lawyers qualified in both English and U.S. law, we have advised on CLO and CDO structures dating back to the inception of the market and have been at the forefront of this market’s buoyancy in recent years. Our lawyers act for arrangers, investment managers and investors on public and private transactions. We have also been involved in a number of firsts as the U.S. and European CLO markets have returned.

TMF Group

TMF Group’s global capital markets practice offers a range of administrative, agency, issuer/SPV and trustee services, across industries and clients. Our unique footprint ensures we can provide clients and transaction parties with real time assistance from our local experts. We have substantial experience helping clients with new and refinanced securities, syndicated loans, secured transactions and multi-jurisdictional transactions.

Our comprehensive service offering, deep experience and global resource, as well as efficient onboarding and responsiveness, enables us to offer clients and transaction parties round the clock coverage.

Located in more than 30 locations, we are the trusted partner for banks, corporates, funds and other parties operating in the global capital markets.

US Bank

Our global corporate trust team offers expert guidance and flexible solutions to private and public companies, government and tax-exempt entities, and financial institutions. This team along with our fund services and custody teams comprise our Investment Services division, which holds more than $7.1 trillion in assets under custody and administration. We operate a network of more than 4,500 employees in more than 100 offices across the U.S. and Europe to fully support your unique local, national and international needs. Grounded on the highest ethical standards, we partner with you to provide reliable and responsive corporate trust, custody and fund services tailored to our diverse client base. For more information about our comprehensive investment services offerings, visit us at usbank.com/investmentservices

Walkers

Walkers is a pre-eminent financial services law firm. We, through our offices in Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, London and Singapore, are a leading provider of legal, tax, listing and corporate services to financial institutions, asset managers and capital markets participants.

Our clients, who include most of the world's leading financial institutions, rely on us for our experience, expertise and solution-driven advice. In Creditflux's 2022 CLO Census, we were recognised by our clients as the top CLO service provider for the fifth year in a row.

Our Dublin based Finance & Capital Markets Group is a multi-award winning team specialising in CLOs and is the largest dedicated CLO team in Ireland. Our team is experienced, responsive and dedicated to providing market leading service levels to our clients.

Our Finance & Capital Markets Group has acted as Issuer counsel on many market firsts and award winning deals in the CLO space and also regularly advises on the Irish legal, tax and regulatory aspects of the establishment and maintenance of Irish risk retention / originator structures.

Walkers Professional Services, our SPV administration business, is also a recognised market leader in the CLO space. Walkers Professional Services is synonymous with responsiveness, a solution-driven approach and a commitment to excellence in client service.

Together our Irish legal, tax, listing and corporate services teams provide an integrated one-stop shop solution for CLO Arrangers and CLO Managers issuing Euro CLOs through Ireland.

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Wiener Boerse

At Vienna Stock Exchange we recognise that CLO transactions are a special sector within the debt industry and have therefore created a special offering tailored to meet the requirements of this important sector. We are launching this product following considerable success in listing many CLOs on the warehousing phase and look forward to attracting the post-warehousing CLO transactions. We are honoured to have earned the trust of the debt market without whom we could not have become the fastest growing debt listing venue in Europe and look to expand this success to CLOs. Contact our team for further details.