Alston & Bird provides legal counsel and services on a global basis to domestic and multinational clients across a broad range of industries. Our core practice areas are intellectual property, complex litigation, corporate, and tax, with national industry focuses that include financial services, technology, health care, manufacturing, life sciences, and energy. Alston & Bird boasts more than 800 attorneys and has offices in Atlanta, Beijing, Brussels, Charlotte, Dallas, Fort Worth, London, Los Angeles, New York, Raleigh, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. Our high-yield debt finance team advises private equity firms and corporate issuers, in addition to underwriters, in connection with Rule 144A / Reg S high-yield bond offerings and term loan B financings, offering wide-ranging strategic advice to clients on corporate and leveraged finance transactions and capital restructurings.

As one of the leading firms for cross-border transactions, we provide strategic advice on deals involving the world’s largest financial institutions and multinational companies. From deal inception to business integration, we help clients to bridge the gap between aspiration and achievement. With one of the world’s largest capital markets practices, our team of over 400 lawyers in over 40 countries provide practical, commercially-focused advice to issuers, investment banks and selling shareholders on equity, debt and public M&A transactions, with the vast majority of our work involving cross-border and multi-jurisdictional listings. Baker McKenzie is one of a select group of firms that has the specialist knowledge and integrated US and English law capital markets capability required to advise clients on European and emerging markets high yield debt offerings. Our offering is designed to be truly full service by supporting our clients over all bases of the complex cross-border high yield markets in which we operate, including corporate issuances, acquisition finance, complex bank/bond leveraged finance, emerging markets, direct lending/alternative capital and restructurings.

Agency and Trust (a business line within Citi Institutional Client Group) is a leading provider of corporate trust services offering a full range of agency, fiduciary, tender and exchange, loans agency and custody, and depositary and escrow services in both established and emerging markets. Agency and Trust administers in excess of USD 7 trillion in fixed income and equity investments on behalf of 3,000 clients worldwide. Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

A leading international law firm with 16 offices around the world, Cleary Gottlieb has been successful in developing the high yield market due to our long-standing presence in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Our firm has been at the forefront of the high yield market at each stage of development in Europe and the United States, and we can offer a combination of local and U.S. expertise in key European markets. We have recognized expertise in assisting debut issuers and have significant experience in emerging markets. Our firm works as an integrated seamless practice providing top tier legal advice on the full life cycle of a company.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, 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. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 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.

Since 2013, leading asset managers, investment bankers, legal and advisory professionals have made better business decisions with credit insights from Reorg. Our unique trifecta approach combines financial and legal analysis with reporting, providing a holistic view of more than 5,000 credits across 130+ countries. Reorg's analysis spans the full credit lifecycle from primary and performing credits, to stressed and distressed, restructuring and post-reorganization. Reorg’s 24,000 subscribers access our proprietary portal, receive real-time email alerts for situations they are following, and have direct conversations with our expert analysts to gain a deeper understanding of covenant and financial risks.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates delivers the highest quality advice and novel solutions to legal challenges, enabling clients to achieve their business goals. We are known for the innovative and creative thinking we rely on to handle the most complex transactions, litigation/controversy issues, and regulatory matters, as well as the open, collaborative relationships we build with clients, including corporations; financial and governmental entities; small, entrepreneurial companies; and cultural, educational and charitable institutions. Our attorneys, who reflect diverse backgrounds and perspectives, collaborate seamlessly across our 22 offices in the world’s major financial centers.

Our award-winning capital markets team is independently recognised as having a leading presence in all of the major financial centres globally. Our fully integrated network covers the full spectrum of securities products including debt, equity, high yield, structured finance and derivatives. Our experience ranges from simple capital-raising to intricate, cross border financing strategies for acquisitions, reorganizations or restructurings, to regulatory matters in key markets throughout the world. Our client base includes all of the leading global investment banks, FTSE listed corporates, sovereigns and funds (both PE and distressed). No other law firm has the strength and depth of coverage in both the United States and Europe.

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The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) is the gateway to access international investors. With more than 37,000 listed securities, including 33,000 debt instruments, from 2,000 issuers in 100 countries, LuxSE is one of the world’s leading exchanges for the listing of international debt securities, offering listing, trading and information services. In 2016, LuxSE launched the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) the world’s leading platform for sustainable securities. LGX encompasses more than 1,000 green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds from 180 issuers across the world, raising more than EUR 535 billion for sustainable development worldwide. LuxSE also operates a specialist subsidiary, Fundsquare, which provides services to support and standardise cross-border distribution of investment funds. For more information, visit www.bourse.lu.

Founded in 1771, Vienna Stock Exchange (“VSX”) is one of the more established independent exchanges in Europe. VSX offers a compelling service range of a fully-fledged listing and cash market infrastructure provider at the highest quality level. By offering competitive listing solutions on its exchange-regulated market “Vienna MTF”, VSX earned the trust of an increasing number of market participants. With more than 3,000 new primary listings in 2020, VSX has become the fastest growing debt listing venue in Europe in terms of new listings growth. Our clients enjoy greater flexibility, a process they can trust and service quality at its best.

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with more than 2,000 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage more than $2 trillion in hedge fund or 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 170 members that manage $400 billion 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). For further information, please visit AIMA’s website, www.aima.org.

The ELFA is a trade association comprised of European leveraged finance investors from 50 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance companies, and pension funds. The ELFA seeks to support the growth and resilience of the leveraged finance market while acting as the voice of its investor community by promoting transparency and facilitating engagement among European leveraged finance market participants. For more information, please visit the ELFA website: www.elfainvestors.com.