10BE5 is a multi-award-winning legal tech company that helps automate capital markets disclosures drafting and associated processes. It is a member of Allen & Overy LLP’s Fuse tech innovation hub and is backed by Innovate UK, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, and Advokatfirman Vinge. 10BE5 builds its products with input from top law firms and leverages state-of-the-art technologies through collaboration with world-leading AI researchers. 10BE5’s flagship N2N (Numbers to Narrative) product converts raw financial statements into the narrative discussion required for prospectuses and periodic reports while its Takedown product rapidly generates the full set of closing documents for shelf takedowns. Its latest product helps automate the circle-up process in securities offerings. Global customers have used 10BE5’s products on offerings worth over tens of billions of dollars in 2023 alone to free up capacity to undertake other complex work and reduce risks through the elimination of mechanical errors.

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.

Milbank is a premier international law firm handling high-profile, complex cases and business transactions through 12 offices worldwide. Our offices work together on an integrated basis, giving us an extraordinary global presence and allowing us to serve a client base that includes the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Milbank is internationally recognized as a leader in major corporate/finance transactions (such as M&A, structured finance, banking, capital markets and project and transportation finance), litigation (including complex commercial, intellectual property, securities and white collar), financial restructuring, and trusts and estates.

White & Case is a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, cross-border integration and depth of local, US and English qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many. Our award-winning Capital Markets Practice covers the whole complementary spectrum of securities products (debt, equity, high yield and structured finance and derivatives), and includes a broad base of experience that is relevant to our clients in this fast changing, highly regulated environment. White & Case’s high yield team represents corporate issuers, initial purchasers, private equity sponsors and other participants in all types of leveraged finance transactions, including acquisitions, refinancings and restructurings. Our team has experience at all levels of the capital structure, including senior debt, bridge financing, term loan B, second lien, public and private high yield, PIK, and preferred and investor debt and equity. For further information, please visit our website: https://www.whitecase.com

Clifford Chance is one of the world's pre-eminent law firms, with significant depth and range of resources across the globe. As a global law firm we are able to support clients at both a local and international level across Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Our global, cross-discipline teams advise on a full range of legal solutions. We have a global view, and through our sector approach, a detailed understanding of our clients’ business, its drivers and competitive landscapes. We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, who include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations. We provide them with the highest quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm's global standards with in-depth local expertise.

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) is the gateway to access international investors. With 41,000+ listed securities, including 37,000 debt instruments, from 1,800 issuers in 100 countries, LuxSE is the world’s leading exchange for the listing of international debt securities, and offers a unique and integrated service offering covering listing, trading and information services. In 2016, LuxSE established the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) and became the first exchange in the world to operate a platform dedicated entirely to sustainable securities. LGX has become a meeting place for issuers of sustainable products and impact-conscious investors, and encompasses more than 1,700 green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds from 280 issuers in 55 countries. In 2020, LuxSE established the LGX Academy and the LGX DataHub to facilitate access to sustainable finance education and structured sustainability data. Visit: www.luxse.com

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.

Shearman & Sterling is a global law firm that partners with corporations, major financial institutions, emerging growth companies, governments, and state-owned enterprises to provide the legal and industry insight needed to navigate the challenges of today and achieve their ambitions of tomorrow. For 150 years, Shearman & Sterling has built strong and long-lasting relationships with clients around the world by advising on ground-breaking, and precedent-setting matters across industries and sectors. Our lawyers come from some 60 countries and speak more than 60 languages. For more information, visit www.shearman.com.

Founded in 1771, Vienna Stock Exchange is one of the most active and established independent exchanges in Europe. At its inception, it was mostly focused on the debt market, providing an invaluable platform for bond trading. To this day, Vienna Stock Exchange has kept its tradition of focusing on customer and market needs making it a key player on the international scene. As of the end of the year 2022, more than 23,000 notes, certificates and warrants have been admitted to listing and trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange. By offering competitive listing solutions on the exchange regulated market “Vienna MTF”, Vienna Stock Exchange has become an attractive European debt listing venue for a growing number of global issuers.

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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.

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$2.5 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 proactively communicates with the media and the general public to increase awareness around the value of the industry. AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council, or ACC, to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 200 members that manage US$450 billion of private credit assets. AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) - first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors).

Powered by Bond Radar Ltd, Leveraged Radar is the premier news & data service for North America & EMEA high yield bond and leveraged loan new issues. Backed by professionals with many years of experience and extensive contacts globally, Leveraged Radar offers real-time official updates throughout deal execution, pipelines ahead of launch, price discovery, post-pricing credit reviews and comprehensive market wraps. Available to all market professionals via Bloomberg LFRD and API feed.

Best Execution – where the buyside and sellside meet Best Execution’s quarterly magazine, daily online news and regular e-mail newsletters examine the impact of regulation, new market participants and new technologies on all asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives and FX) from pre-trade to post-trade and beyond. One of the consequences of regulation has been the changing dynamic of buyside-sellside interactions and Best Execution is now broadening its remit with Broker Review to examine the true cost of services provided by brokers to their clients. This will not only cover execution and research, but also scrutinise the shift towards sustainability with the increasing importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investment strategy. Best Execution acts as a bridge between the buyside and the sellside, shining a light on their changing relationship and examining the evolution of the global securities markets, but never forgetting that it is not just technology, but people who are needed to hone that competitive edge. www.bestexecution.net

Global Legal Group is an independent digital media company based in central London. Our clients are private practice and in-house lawyers, multinational corporations, and professional services firms in over 190 countries around the world.Founded in 2002, Global Legal Group’s first product was the International Comparative Legal Guides (ICLG) series, which has grown into a world-renowned legal resource that covers the law in more than 192 jurisdictions and across 58 practice areas.Since 2009, GLG has also produced Commercial Dispute Resolution, an online news and print magazine for litigation and arbitration specialists. In 2011, GLG introduced Global Legal Insights, an essential analytical resource detailing current legal issues spanning 16 practice areas, and, in 2014, African Law & Business was unveiled. Since 2012, GLG has also hosted a successful series of conferences and events, including the annual Global Class Actions Symposium, the premier event for international class actions specialists.Our mission is to provide outstanding performance for our clients and partners. We provide the digital technologies and expertise that they need to boost their brand exposure and market reach, as well as access to the world’s leading online network of legal experts. By only partnering with the leading legal and business authorities, we also ensure that the information we provide is topical, enlightening and authoritative, making our products the go-to resource.

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Talking about bonds starts at the DESK The DESK provides buy-side traders and their counterparts with precise detail on the macro-drivers, events and plans that are shaping liquidity and price discovery in fixed income markets. The DESK’s quarterly magazine, daily news, weekly newsletters and social media feeds give us a constant flow of information to the market, blending a mix of exclusive stories, in-depth trader profiles and technical analysis of trading across the cash and derivatives’ fixed income markets. The DESK is trusted by bond traders to be the best information on market structure, data and trade execution. Using a unique model of feedback via monthly off-the-record briefings and quarterly quantitative research, we help buy-side traders to navigate the evolving fixed income markets and sell-side traders to better support their clients. Our readers predominantly come from the developed financial market centres of Europe and North America, but our combination of print and digital gives The DESK a global reach. www.fi-desk.com