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.

Fitch Ratings is a leading provider of credit ratings, commentary, and research. Dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, Fitch Ratings offers global perspectives shaped by strong local market experience and credit market expertise. Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, Fitch Solutions, and Fitch Learning. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

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.

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.

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.

Vienna Stock Exchange offers issuers efficient, cost-effective listing services for debt and equity securities in line with international standards. Following impressive growth in recent years, the Vienna Stock Exchange has become one of Europe’s leading listing venues for debt securities, with more than 7,000 new listings in 2021. Our clients enjoy great flexibility, a process they can trust and unrivalled service quality. With state-of-the-art technology and customer-oriented services, and as a private, profit-oriented company, Vienna Stock Exchange makes a significant contribution to an internationally competitive capital market. Creating trust and transparency has been our fundamental duty since 1771.

At Cognitive Credit, we bring together experts in technology and finance to create scalable solutions custom-designed for institutional credit investors. Our innovative, data-driven software combines modern productivity tools with analytical features that enable more efficient and precise corporate credit analysis. For us, data integrity is paramount. Our proprietary data extraction pipeline is fast, accurate, and guarantees transparency. We design with the full investment team in mind to support cross-team collaboration and on-the-go connectivity. By joining the most accurate fundamental data in the market with real-time updates and a suite of advanced analytics, we empower our clients to be as productive and insightful as possible.

U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust is a leading provider of European trustee and agency services to financial institutions, corporations, lenders and their advisers. For more than 100 years, we’ve established our solid position by offering responsive, customized services coupled with a steadfast commitment to integrity. We provide global coverage and expertise for European trustee solutions, loan agency, CLO, structured finance, default services, repacks, infrastructure finance, corporate debt, and issuing and paying agent. With dedicated experts located in London, our specialized solutions are supported by the financial strength and resources of a large financial institution to help you achieve success. We understand the importance of a trusted service provider, and we’re committed to delivering tools and expertise to help you meet your business goals. For more information about our solutions, visit usbank.com/corporatetrust or visit us at our stand.

ELFA is a professional trade association comprised of European leveraged finance investors from over 60 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance companies, and pension funds. 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 ELFA’s website: www.elfainvestors.com.

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.

Best Execution reviews the issues that impact the achievement of best execution in the global securities markets throughout the trading lifecycle (from pre-trade to trade execution to post-trade). Increasingly driven by regulation we report on the seismic shifts that are occurring in capital markets across asset classes, with a key focus on the cutting-edge technology solutions and services that are needed to meet these changes.

The DESK provides buy-side traders with precise detail on the macro-drivers, events and plans that are shaping liquidity and price discovery in fixed income markets. Published quarterly, The DESK delivers facts from the frontline of trading, opinion on the potential of new initiatives and support for fixed income desks across investment firms. Talking about bonds starts at The DESK.