Bain Capital

Bain Capital Credit is a leading global credit specialist with $41 billion in assets under management.* We invest across the credit spectrum and in credit-related strategies, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, structured products, private middle market loans, bespoke capital solutions, distressed securities and assets, non-performing loans, hard assets and equities. 

Since inception, a strong sense of alignment with our partners has been ingrained in our culture. We are a private partnership and invest a significant amount of our own capital alongside our limited partners. We have approximately $1.5 billion of employee co-investment committed across Bain Capital Credit funds. 

Bain Capital Credit’s investment professionals are dedicated to sourcing, analyzing, documenting and executing on attractive credit opportunities across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and are supported by robust operational and technical resources. 

*All AUM data presented is estimated as of 7/1/22

Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customer and client, and geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

For further information about Barclays, please visit our website www.barclays.com

BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 63 countries and has nearly 183,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft is proud of 225 years of service to many of the world's most prestigious institutions. With more than 350 attorneys in its offices in New York, London, Charlotte and Washington, the firm offers clients innovative solutions to legal and financial issues in a wide range of areas. With a Creditflux No. 1 Europe position as CLO Arranger's Counsel and a market leader as CLO Manager's Counsel, Cadwalader's securitisation and structured finance team is an acknowledged legal industry leader in the creation and structuring of securitisations, derivatives, synthetic securities, and other structured finance products. It represents issuers, underwriters and collateral managers in CLO transactions and related product types, and have extensive experience with both "cashflow" and synthetic total return structures as well as risk retention funds. Cadwalader has acted as deal counsel in CLO transactions since the inception of the CLO market. The team has assisted clients in bringing hundreds of such transactions to market, closing over 60 in 2019, valued at over €25 billion.

To find out more about Cadwalader’s CLO team and work click  here.

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Dechert

Dechert is a trusted advisor to some of the largest asset managers in the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) space, advising clients on their most complex strategies. Dechert is a true “buy-side” law firm focused on representing asset managers in the areas most relevant to their rapidly evolving business needs. We serve a diverse global client base including some of the most prolific CLO underwriters (major investment and commercial banks) and largest asset managers and equity investors.

We recognize many of our client’s needs are inextricably linked, requiring both legal and business insights to achieve results. Dechert’s global platform includes a multidisciplinary team with a broad array of expertise for asset managers and specialty finance companies pursuing credit platforms. As outside counsel, we deliver a complete range of services ranging from formation, operation and compliance of CLO platforms to securitization transactions and risk retention capital formation strategies.

Our top-ranked securitization, investment adviser and fund lawyers also have earned us a leading market position in the representation of issuers, placement agents, collateral managers and equity investors in CLO transactions, including middle-market balance sheet CLOs and broadly syndicated arbitrage CLOs in the United States and Europe.

Dechert is not only one of the most active law firms in the CLO market, but also one of the most distinguished, having received “best law firm” recognition from legal and industry publications including Global Capital, Creditflux, Chambers and Partners, and The Legal 500.

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank provides commercial and investment banking, retail banking, transaction banking, and asset and wealth management products and services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. Deutsche Bank is Germany’s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.

The Bank’s Trust and Agency Services business provides a suite of solutions tailored to support requirements for mergers and acquisitions, complex securitisations, project finance, syndicated and bilateral loans, debt exchanges and restructuring, in addition to term debt and commercial paper issuances. Its extensive offerings across the debt and equity capital markets include trustee, agency, escrow, document custody and depositary receipts.

Talk to us today about our M&A paying agent solution Escrow Direct that streamlines the Letters of Transmittal (LOT) distribution and collection process, provides faster payments to shareholders and real time monitoring.

DLA Piper

DLA Piper is one of the largest global law firms with lawyers located in more than 40 countries/90 offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific including Japan positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.

We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients.

We achieve this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed. We deliver consistent services across our platform of practices and sectors in all matters we undertake.

Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, Fortune 500 and the Tokyo Stock Exchange listed enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. We also advise governments and public sector bodies. 

Jefferies

Jefferies  Group LLC is the largest independent, global, full-service investment banking  firm headquartered in the U.S. Focused on serving clients for nearly 60 years,  Jefferies is a leader in providing insight, expertise and execution to  investors, companies and governments. Our firm provides a full range of  investment banking, advisory, sales and trading, research and wealth management  services across all products in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group  LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF),  a diversified financial services company.

J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan’s Corporate &Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and securitiesservices. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutionsentrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $27 trillion ofassets under custody and $607 billion in deposits, the Corporate &Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk andextends liquidity in markets around the world. Further information about J.P.Morgan is available at www.jpmorgan.com.

Natixis

Natixis is a French multinational financial services firm specialized in asset & wealth management, corporate & investment banking, insurance and payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, Natixis counts over 16,000 employees across 36 countries. Its clients include corporations, financial institutions, sovereign and supranational organizations, and the customers of Groupe BPCE’s networks.

Orrick

Orrick is a leading global law firm focused on the Tech, Energy & Infrastructure, and Finance sectors. Our E&I transactional, litigation and regulatory lawyers advise on some of the most high-profile infrastructure modernization projects that propel communities across the globe and on revolutionary projects in the energy transition and energy technology space. We offer deep sector knowledge and creativity to help our clients achieve their business objectives in the areas of P3, project development and finance, complex acquisitions, dispositions and private equity investments, restructurings, dispute resolution, regulatory and proactive compliance across the energy and infrastructure spectrum.

Paul Hastings

Paul Hastings is a leading global law firm, pre-eminent in cross-border transactions and solving complex legal problems. We focus on the business issues our clients care about most – those that have the greatest impact on their success. Clients trust us to provide creative, business-savvy solutions, underpinned by exceptional client service – delivered globally.

Our winning approach is anchored in our culture of collaboration and collegiality, and in always harnessing the insights of our diverse team to get to the best solutions. We attract and promote extraordinary talent – preeminent partners in their fields who are energetic, dynamic, and who share our commitment to our clients.

We pride ourselves on the strong relationships we develop with our clients. We invest time in understanding their businesses and what it takes to make them even more successful. In working so closely with our clients and their advisors, we become an integral part of their team, entrusted with their biggest opportunities and challenges.

S&P Global Ratings

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. Learn more at www.spglobal.com/ratings.