Private Credit Forum New York 2024
The must-attend event for the US middle market returns!
The Private Credit Forum returns!
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Why should I attend?
Strategic Insights
Discover the themes and trends dominating regional private credit in the next 12 months and learn more about how private credit managers are fundraising in a downturn.
Networking
Take advantage of the networking opportunities throughout the day to meet a diverse and powerful group of regional and international LPs, GPs, and advisors in the private credit space.
Professional Growth
Explore topics ranging from CLOs to distressed debt and special situations. Get allocator perspectives from emerging LPs who have recently committed capital to the asset class.
Sponsors
Churchill Asset Management
https://www.churchillam.com/Churchill, an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen (the $1.2T asset manager of TIAA), is an award-winning U.S. middle market private capital manager offering clients customized solutions across the capital structure. With $50B of committed capital, the firm provides senior lending, junior capital, equity co-investments and secondary solutions to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. Churchill also invests over $1B annually as an LP in leading private equity firms, a key differentiator that drives proprietary deal flow. Churchill has an 18-year track record of disciplined investing throughout multiple economic cycles and is supported by 175 professionals across five U.S. offices. Learn more at www.churchillam.com.
Dechert
https://www.dechert.com/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.
DLA Piper
https://www.dlapiper.comDLA 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.
Kirkland & Ellis
https://www.kirkland.comWith a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 19 cities across the United States, Europe 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. To learn more, please visit www.kirkland.com
Proskauer
https://www.proskauer.com/Proskauer is a firm of 800+ lawyers serving clients from offices located in the leading financial and business centers in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Our Private Credit Group is made up of over 90 cross-disciplinary finance and restructuring lawyers exclusively dedicated to private credit investors and focused on representing credit funds, business development companies and other direct lending funds in the restructuring of “clubbed” and syndicated credits, preferred equity, special situations and alternative investments. Over the past five years, Proskauer has advised on 1,000+ deals for over 75 private credit clients across the United States and Europe with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $260 billion.