Partner
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In business for over 150 years, 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. Learn more at spglobal.com/ratings.
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Arnold & Porter combines sophisticated corporate, transactional, regulatory, and litigation capabilities to resolve clients’ most complex issues. With over 1,000 lawyers practicing in 15 offices worldwide, we offer deep industry experience and an integrated approach that spans more than 40 practice areas. Through multidisciplinary collaboration and focused industry experience, we provide innovative and effective solutions to mitigate risks, address challenges, and achieve successful outcomes. Our finance lawyers advise clients on complex structured finance, specialty finance, and private finance transactions, including asset-backed securities, asset-backed lending, warehouse facilities, collateralized loan obligations, risk transfer solutions, and credit derivatives. The team is skilled in navigating the intricate regulatory landscape, ensuring compliance while optimizing deal structures. With a robust practice that spans various financial sectors, we provide comprehensive services to a diverse clientele, including financial institutions, investment funds, and corporations.
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For over 17 years, our experienced team has pursued a focused strategy of originating senior loans for lower middle market companies. Our mission is to be a leading middle market direct lending firm with a singular objective of building valuable, long-term relationships with our investors, borrowers, private equity sponsors and management teams. Since inception in 2007, Deerpath has deployed over $10 billion of invested capital in more than 975 investments, across a broad range of industries and transaction types. Deerpath has direct origination and execution capabilities throughout the United States with origination offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, and Los Angeles. In addition, the Firm has offices in London, Seoul, Tokyo, and Australia to attentively support investors outside of the U.S. Our experienced and empowered team allows us to respond timely to equity owners and company management teams while simultaneously delivering consistent value to our investors. We maintain a long history of scaling our investment to match the borrower’s financing needs and working with private equity sponsors to nurture long-term growth. Deerpath’s mission is to be a leading middle market direct lending firm with a singular focus on building valuable long-term relationships with our investors, borrowers, equity sponsors and management teams.
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DLA Piper is a leading global law firm with offices in over 40 countries across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. With a portfolio of services to match every stage of the business lifecycle, we combine practice area knowledge with modern industry insights and an expansive geographic footprint in a way that no other firm can. Our solutions are tailored and seamless – and ready to meet your toughest challenges.
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Egan-Jones Ratings Company is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO). Egan-Jones rates the creditworthiness of issuers looking to raise capital in private credit markets across a range of asset classes. Website: egan-jones.com
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At KBRA, we aim to establish a higher standard of excellence and integrity regarding credit ratings. Since launching our full-service rating agency in 2010, we have remained committed to restoring consumer confidence in credit ratings. From establishing new standards for risk evaluation to providing timely and transparent ratings, we are changing the credit rating landscape. Our team offers in-depth ratings and research for various industries within the United States, United Kingdom and Europe, giving all market participants an alternative credit rating solution. As a company, we value fresh perspectives and prioritize innovation and creativity rather than relying solely on conventional wisdom. We know collaboration is essential to our ability to provide investors with better products. Additionally, we work hard to make tools and solutions developed by the KBRA Analytics group easily accessible to aid in better market decisions.
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Kirkland’s Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit team structures highly complex and first-of-their-kind transactions across the full range of structured financings, hybrid structured/leveraged credit facilities, securitizations, structured private credit and private placement transactions, with experience across a wide range of industries including whole business, energy, digital infrastructure, auto, equipment, trade receivables and consumer loans.
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Milbank LLP is a premier international law firm handling high-profile, complex cases and business transactions through 12 offices worldwide. Milbank 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. Our complex securitization team works with practices across the firm in matching business-focused and hybrid structures with capital, with a particular focus on esoteric asset securitization, whole business securitizations, digital infrastructure securitizations and other first-of-their kind transactions. Our attorneys are active in a full range of structured financings, hybrid structured/leveraged credit facilities and complex securitization transactions. Milbank was named Law360’s Structured Finance Group of the Year in 2023. Milbank was ranked as the #1 legal services provider to collateralized loan obligation (CLO) managers globally and in Europe in Creditflux’s year-end advisory firm rankings and we were ranked #1 US CLO manager counsel on 9fin’s US BSL law firm league tables. For the last seven years, Milbank has remained at the top of Creditflux’s global rankings We were also named #1 US legal services provider to US CLO managers and #1 legal services provider to European CLO managers in the 2022 Creditflux CLO Census.
Media Partner
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9fin is the faster, smarter way to find debt market intelligence. Through an AI-powered data and analytics platform, 9fin centralises everything that's needed to analyse a credit or win a mandate in one place - helping subscribers win business, outperform their peers and save time.
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ABF Journal provides specialty finance news, insights, deals, data and more for middle market capital providers and advisors. Our in-depth deal coverage, content, directories and data provide actionable insights and valuable resources that help our audience make better business decisions. We publish content through a variety of channels, from print and digital magazines, daily and weekly newsletters, deal blasts, podcasts, videos and social media content. Learn more at abfjournal.com.
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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). https://www.aima.org/
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The IMDDA is the leading and most affordable training platform and community for financial professionals in the world. Our mission is to empower our members to improve their knowledge and skills to accelerate their growth and development to advance in their careers. We do this by providing exceptional training, a vibrant community, and essential tools that make our members and their organizations more successful.
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SEAFA sent an updated description for the PCC East website. Can you please change it to the below. The Southeastern Alternative Funds Association (SEAFA) provides education, interaction, and advancement of its members engaged in the alternative investment community in the Southeast. Organized in 2001 and renamed in 2019 as the Southeastern Alternative Funds Association, SEAFA is a regionally focused tax-exempt 501(c)(6) trade organization dedicated to professionals active in the alternative investment industry in the Southeast. Learn more about SEAFA at https://theseafa.com/.