BNP Paribas

Leader in banking and financial services in Europe, BNP Paribas operates in 64 countries and has nearly 178,000 employees, including more than 144,000 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, Türkiye, 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.

Dechert

Dechert is the law firm that helps business leaders lead. For more than 150 years, we have advised clients on critical issues – from high-stakes litigation to first-in-market transaction structures and complex regulatory matters. Our nearly 1,000 lawyers in commercial centers worldwide are immersed in the key sectors we serve – private capital, financial services, real estate, life sciences and technology. Dechert delivers unwavering partnership so our clients can achieve unprecedented results.

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. We offer a comprehensive product suite through our Corporate Bank, Private Bank, Investment Bank, and Asset Management.

The Investment Bank at Deutsche Bank provides strategic advice to corporate and institutional clients, focusing on the bank’s traditional strengths in financing, advisory, fixed income, and currencies, together with a focused equity capital markets business. This division drives Deutsche Bank's growth strategy with innovative solutions and global reach.

As the Global Hausbank, we are committed to expanding our position and providing unparalleled financial services to companies, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals.

Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Investment Group (SIG) is the market-leading illiquid, distressed and special situations credit franchise in Asia Pacific, established for over 20 years.

SIG has a proven track record of investing and trading in illiquid and distressed loans, corporate bonds and trade claims. SIG is also a provider of liquidity and capital solutions for special situations with an ability to structure complex transactions and invest in size with balance sheet. We have a long history of working with partners to source risk, invest, drive outcomes and effect profitable exits from transactions.

We are a team of 20+ specialists primarily based in Hong Kong with extensive experience across trading, client coverage and distribution, origination, research, structuring and execution.

For over 150 years, we have grown with Asia Pacific, embracing change, helping drive progress. But one thing has never changed: our dedication to our clients. Combining deep local expertise across the region with the strength of our global network, we connect corporate, investment and wealth solutions that finance growth, manage risk and unlock opportunity — today and for the future.

Discover more about how Deutsche Bank can be your strategic financial partner at www.db.com

CSC

CSC® is a leading provider of global business administration and compliance solutions, offering industry-leading expertise and unmatched global reach to alternative fund managers and capital markets participants. Leveraging deep institutional experience and a tailored approach, CSC delivers a comprehensive suite of fund administration, trust, agency, and compliance services to support a wide range of private and public market transactions, complex fund strategies, and scalable operational needs.

As the trusted partner of choice for more than 70% of the PEI 300, 90% of the Fortune 500®, and more than 90% of the 100 Best Global Brands®, CSC helps clients navigate operational, regulatory, and transactional complexities across more than 140 jurisdictions and various asset classes. With extensive worldwide capabilities, our expert teams provide seamless, bespoke solutions to meet our clients’ unique requirements.

Founded in 1899 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, CSC has been privately held and professionally managed for more than 125 years. Driven by a fierce client spirit, we empower clients with the global reach, local knowledge, and innovative solutions they need to succeed.

We are the business behind business®. "

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.

KBRA

KBRA is a global full-service rating agency with a mission to set a standard of excellence and integrity. Established in 2010, KBRA remains dedicated to the restoration of trust in credit ratings by creating new standards for assessing risk and by offering timely and transparent ratings. KBRA provides market participants with an alternative solution by delivering in-depth research across various sectors within the United States and European markets. We strive to provide the investment community with the products and tools needed to make informed investment decisions.

Kirkland & Ellis

With a global platform of approximately 4,000 lawyers in 22 cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations.

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 is a leading international law firm that provides innovative legal services to clients around the world. Founded in New York over 150 years ago, Milbank has offices in Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Milbank’s lawyers collaborate across practices and offices to help the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, as well as institutions, individuals and governments, achieve their strategic objectives. To learn more about Milbank, please visit www.milbank.com.

Morgan Lewis

Morgan Lewis Structured Transactions Practice is ranked Band 1 in Chambers, Tier 1 by The Legal 500, and Tier 2 by IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate, our lawyers and practice are recognized global leaders in the structured finance industry, domestically and internationally, working across offices in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, as a united team. Morgan Lewis lawyers in our Structured Transactions Practice are key players in the structured markets. Our clients, both issuers and underwriters, are among the most highly respected global financial services institutions. We understand the evolution of structures because we were involved in many of the industry’s key firsts. We design and execute continuous offering programs. Our practice is on top of the quickly changing regulatory landscape. Our lawyers wrote the books that structured finance lawyers rely on: Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities, The Federal Securities Law of Asset-Backed Securities and 101 Questions I Wish I Asked (About Securitization). Morgan Lewis offers partner-led teams equipped with years of experience and an acute understanding of your business objectives and how to accomplish these in the most cost-effective manner. In addition to a robust, dedicated structured transactions practice and resources, we offer and utilize key practice area expertise to support transactions, including tax, ERISA, broker-dealer, real estate, and investment company practice lawyers.

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.

100 Women in Finance

100 Women in Finance is a global nonprofit membership organization established in 2001, committed to strengthening the global finance industry by empowering women to achieve their professional potential at every career stage. The organization’s membership spans 30+ locations worldwide and is fueled by a network of over 600 global volunteers and corporate partners who collaborate to deliver on education, peer engagement, and impact initiatives. Guided by Vision 30/40, 100 Women in Finance aspires to shape the future of leadership in finance, aiming for women to hold 30% of senior investment and executive roles by 2040. Visit 100women.org to learn more.

AIMA

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with around 2,100 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage more than US$3 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets.

AIMA draws upon the expertise and diversity of its membership to provide leadership in industry initiatives such as advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programmes and sound practice guides. AIMA works to raise media and public awareness of the value of the industry.

AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 250 members that manage over US$1 trillion of private credit assets globally.  

AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) – the first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors).