Sponsors
Corporate Sponsors
Akin Gump
Akin Gump is a global law firm with 20 offices and more than 900 lawyers advising across a wide range of practices and industries. The firm is widely recognised for its representation of creditors in financial restructurings, with a deep bench of lawyers across Europe, the US and Asia. With unrivalled experience in acting for groups of bondholders, noteholders and lenders, the financial restructuring team advises the full range of nonbank debt investors, including hedge funds, specialist investment funds, insurance companies and pension funds, and has played a leading role in most of the major cross-border restructuring transactions in recent years. Akin Gump is consistently top ranked for Restructuring and Insolvency in the leading independent legal directories Chambers UK, Legal 500 UK and IFLR1000, and is top-ranked by Chambers in both London and New York. For more information, please visit www.akingump.com.
Alvarez & Marsal
https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/
With more than 60 offices across 20 countries – including national presence in Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham – we are perfectly positioned to help stressed and under-performing companies stabilise financial and operational performance, and on to transformation and growth.
We are proud to provide conflict-free, hands-on solutions to global and regional companies and their stakeholders.
Find out how the A&M way can help your business: www.alvarezandmarsal.com
BDO
https://www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/home
BDO UK provides tax, audit and assurance, advisory and business outsourcing services to companies across all sectors of the economy. Our people are specialists in their respective fields and have a proactive, flexible approach to helping businesses overcome the challenges they face. We aim to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as the companies we work with, 95 per cent of whom say they would recommend us.
Operating out of 18 locations across the UK, we cover all of the major business centres while offering local expertise to local firms. Our growing business now comprises approximately 7,000 people who are encouraged to be themselves, bringing personality and authenticity to our professional environment. The core values which underpin our culture - including being responsible, acting with integrity and working collaboratively - are reflected in the behaviours of our people and our CSR policies.
BDO LLP is a key member of the BDO global network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms which provides business advisory services in 164 countries, with approximately 95,400 people working out of 1,713 offices worldwide. It has revenues of $11.8bn. Being a member of the BDO global network enables us to advise businesses which are trading and expanding internationally.
Carey Olsen LLP
Carey Olsen is a leading offshore law firm advising financial institutions, corporations and private clients on Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey law from a network of nine international offices.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
https://www.freshfields.com/en-gb/
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is an international law firm headquartered in London.
The world’s biggest international organisations rely on us to help them make the right decisions in a fast-changing world. We combine the knowledge, experience and energy of the whole firm to solve our clients’ most complex challenges, wherever and whenever they arise.
FTI Consulting
https://www.fticonsulting.com/emea
FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. Individually, each practice is a leader in its specific field, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle – from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected events and dynamic environments.
Gordon Brothers
https://www.gordonbrothers.com/
Gordon Brothers helps companies move forward through change. Since 1903, Gordon Brothers has partnered with operating companies, advisors, investors and lenders to help fuel growth, facilitate strategic consolidation, or finance new opportunities.
Kroll
Kroll is a leading independent provider of risk and financial advisory solutions, Kroll leverages their unique insights, data and technology to their help clients stay ahead of complex demands.
McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery is an international law firm with a diversified business practice.
We’re proud to work with some of the world’s most dynamic organizations and the leaders who drive them. We know that on any given day you’re tackling competition, corporate development, asset protection, talent management—some days all of the above. While there’s a bevy of smart folks out there to help you address them on a case-by-case basis, there are few who have the breadth and depth of focused knowledge to help you attend to them all and stay ahead of what’s next.
That’s McDermott.
When you hire us, you don’t just get the experience of an individual. You get a purpose-built, tightly woven network of legal thought leaders who marry their passion for business with a deep, focused understanding of the law.
And your team isn’t just the lawyers working on your business day one. It’s also their colleagues around the world who guide and advise around the edges—the ones who add diverse, nuanced perspectives to elevate strategy and surface highly effective—but often unexpected—solutions when a “simple” transaction becomes a bet-the-company deal or a basic arbitration turns into multi-year litigation.
RSM UK Corporate Finance LLP
RSM is a leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services to middle market leaders, globally.
With nearly 4,900 partners and staff in the UK and access to 57,000 people in over 120 countries across the RSM network, we can meet our clients’ needs wherever in the world they operate.
As an integrated team, we share skills, insight and resources, as well as a client-centric, collaborative approach that’s based on a deep understanding of our clients’ businesses. This is how we empower you to move forward with confidence and realise your full potential. This is the power of being understood.
Squire Patton Boggs
https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/en
Squire Patton Boggs is a full-service global law firm. We provide insight at the point where law, business and government meet, giving you a voice, supporting your ambitions and achieving successful outcomes.
Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses.
Founding Sponsors
AlixPartners
AlixPartners has worked with clients around the world for nearly forty years, helping businesses respond to challenges when everything is on the line – from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation.
Global Loan Agency Services Limited
Global Loan Agency Services Limited was established in 2011 as an independent provider of finance administration services. Global Loan Agency Services Limited is a privately owned business, founded by Mia Drennan and Brian Carne. The company was originally created to provide the market a willing participant in complex loan restructuring transactions where many large institutions are reluctant to take swift and cooperative action. We offer a wide range of administration services developed specifically for the debt market. We are an employee led organisation, with each employee directly participating in the success of the company.
