Cadwalader European Finance Forum 2023

Date: October 12, 2023

Location: The Biltmore Mayfair, 44 Grosvenor Square, London, W1K 2HP

Nick Shiren - Moderator
Smridhi Gulati - Moderator

Please join us for our inaugural European Finance Forum focussing on bringing together fund managers, financial institutions and alternative lenders across the European finance industry to discuss some of the most topical issues across our industry today. We have some of the leading private capital, debt finance and advisor representatives on our panels (more details to be announced) and are delighted to be joined by a surprise keynote speaker for a fireside chat.

Agenda:

14:00 - 14:30: Registration

14:30 - 14:40: Welcome and Opening Remarks

14:40 - 15:10: ESG Outlook: What's Next for ESG Investment and Finance?

15:20 - 16:05: Liquidity Challenges for Private Markets Funds

16:15 - 17:00: Private Credit: Driving Deal Making in Today's Economy

17:10 - 17:55: Leveraging Loan Portfolios: Trends and Opportunities in the Broadly Syndicated and Middle Markets

18:00 - 18:30: Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat

18:30 - 22:00: Networking Drinks

We hope to see you there!

For more information, please contact Michelle Da Costa, michelle.dacosta@cwt.com.

14:30 - 14:40: Welcome and Opening Remarks
14:40 - 15:10: Panel 1

ESG Outlook: What’s Next for ESG Investment and Finance?
Panelists:

Jack David

Head of ESG
9fin

Jack David

Head of ESG
9fin

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Jack is Head of ESG at 9fin, an AI powered data & analytics company focused on debt capital markets. He joined from PwC where he was a Senior Associate providing risk assurance, consulting and research for venture capital, private equity and the private sector. Following his graduation from Swansea University, he joined a renewable energy consultancy, Sustainable Energy Ltd., as a Mechanical Engineer.

Sabrina Fox

Chief Executive Officer
European Leveraged Finance Association

Sabrina Fox

Chief Executive Officer
European Leveraged Finance Association

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Sabrina is the Chief Executive Officer for the European Leveraged Finance Association, a buyside-only trade association comprised of European leveraged finance investors from 63 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.

Sabrina is a recognised expert in the European leveraged finance market focused on increasing transparency, improving disclosure standards, and educating market participants on ESG implementation and the importance of lender protections in documentation.

Most recently, Sabrina was Head of European High Yield Research for Covenant Review. Prior to that, she was Counsel with DLA Piper in London.

For more information about ELFA, including our mission statement and member benefits, visit www.elfainvestors.com.

Ryan Kisiel

Partner and Head of Sustain
H/Advisors Maitland

Ryan Kisiel

Partner and Head of Sustain
H/Advisors Maitland

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Ryan Kisiel recently joined H/Advisors Maitland to lead the Sustain practice.

An experienced, senior communications adviser, Ryan has provided strategic counsel to HSBC on its global sustainability agenda. He has also advised clients including Virgin, Chanel, Burberry, Etihad Airways, Repsol, National Grid, CVC and LafargeHolcim on their ESG reporting and content. Recently he helped the UK Government structure and execute its first green bond and has advised several governments across the world.

Before starting his career with the bank, he advised the UK government on its pension and social care strategy as well as on how to reach consumer media. Ryan also spent more than 10 years on national newspapers as an award-wining journalist. He uses this experience to help build key media relationships to both promote brands and protect reputations.
15:20 - 16:05: Panel 2

Liquidity Challenges for Private Markets Funds
Panelists:

Steve Burton

Head of Fund Finance
ICG plc

Steve Burton

Head of Fund Finance
ICG plc

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Michael Hubbard

Head of European GP Solutions
Cadwalader

Michael Hubbard

Head of European GP Solutions
Cadwalader

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Stephen Thomas

Head of Finance
Coller Capital

Stephen Thomas

Head of Finance
Coller Capital

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Stephen is Head of Finance at Coller Capital, a leading Secondaries Private Equity firm, based in the Firm’s London office and his responsibilities include negotiating and structuring financing facilities for all active Coller funds as well as their wider treasury requirements.

Stephen is an FCA Chartered Accountant. Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2010, Stephen trained at Deloitte in London before spending 18 months with KPMG in the Cayman Islands.

Stephen holds an undergraduate degree in History and Politics from the University of Warwick.

David Wilson

Co-Head of Credit
17Capital

David Wilson

Co-Head of Credit
17Capital

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David is a Partner and Co-Head of Credit at 17Capital, and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He is based in 17Capital’s London office and focuses on investments, client solutions and capital markets activities.

David joined 17Capital from J.P. Morgan where he spent 12 years in structured financing, having previously held positions at Lehman Brothers and Ernst & Young, where he started his career as a Chartered Accountant.

David studied mechanical engineering at Leeds University and has a masters in finance from the London Business School.
16:15 - 17:00: Panel 3

Private Credit: Driving Deal Making in Today’s Economy
Moderator:

Smridhi Gulati

Partner
Cadwalader

Panelists:

Joseph Buckley

Managing Director - European Private Finance
Barings

Joseph Buckley

Managing Director - European Private Finance
Barings

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Joseph Buckley is a senior member of Barings’ Global Private Finance Group responsible for fundraising and originating, executing, underwriting & monitoring European private finance investments. Joseph has worked in the industry since 2007. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, he was a Director at Bank of Ireland, where he led and originated transactions supporting sponsor backed leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations in the UK mid-market. He also spent 4 years focused on restructuring distressed leveraged finance transactions across Europe. Joseph is a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant and holds an M.B.A. from University College Dublin, Smurfit School of Business.

Philip Edmans

Partner
Inflexion

Philip Edmans

Partner
Inflexion

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Philip is a Partner at Inflexion Private Equity. He is a member of its Investment Committee and is Head of Capital Markets. Before focusing on Capital Markets, Philip invested across all sectors with investments including, Alcumus, CTC Aviation, Kynetec, Lane Clark & Peacock, Marston, Peach, Reed & Mackay, Scott Dunn and Xtrac. He also sits on the board of Atcore.

Richard Oliver

Partner
Ares Management

Richard Oliver

Partner
Ares Management

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Richard Oliver is a Partner in the Ares Credit Group, where he focuses on European Direct Lending, joining in 2007 at the inception of the European platform. Prior to that Mr Oliver was a member of the Financial Sponsor Group at Barclays focused on European Leveraged Finance transactions.

Nakul Sarin

Partner
Bridgepoint Credit

Nakul Sarin

Partner
Bridgepoint Credit

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Nakul is a Partner within Bridgepoint Credit and joined the Firm in 2020 from EQT Credit which was acquired by Bridgepoint in 2020. Prior to joining EQT in 2015, he worked for Permira Debt Managers, where he was responsible for leading the origination and execution of several direct lending and special situation investments. Prior to this Nakul worked for Blackstone’s M&A and Restructuring Advisory team and the leveraged finance teams for Merrill Lynch and CIBC World Markets. Nakul has a degree in Finance, Economics and Mathematics from McGill University and a MSc in Economics and Finance from Warwick Business School.
17:10 - 17:55: Panel 4

Leveraging Loan Portfolios: Trends and Opportunities in the Broadly Syndicated and Middle Markets
Moderator:

Nick Shiren

Partner
Cadwalader

Panelists:

Sandeep Chana

Director, Structured Credit / CLOs
S&P Global Ratings

Sandeep Chana

Director, Structured Credit / CLOs
S&P Global Ratings

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Sandeep Chana is a Director and Lead Analyst at S&P Global Ratings and member of the structured credit team. His responsibilities include the assignment and surveillance of new issue ratings to CLO transactions, as well as authoring several publications on the European CLO market.

Sandeep holds a Bsc Geography and Economics degree from Queen Mary, University of London, and an ICMA-FIC with distinction from Hendley Business School.

Marc Goldberg

Managing Director; Head of EMEA FICC Financing
Bank of America

Marc Goldberg

Managing Director; Head of EMEA FICC Financing
Bank of America

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Marc Goldberg is a Managing Director and head of EMEA FICC Solutions at BofA Securities.

Marc leads a London-based team responsible for the origination of European asset-backed financing transactions across a range of asset classes, including private credit, commercial real estate, specialty finance and fund finance. Prior to this commencing his current role, Marc was head of EMEA Credit Structuring, responsible for structuring and executing secured financing transactions within EMEA FICC across securities and loan collateral.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 2006, Marc spent 5 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London and Melbourne where he advised large corporations, financial institutions and private equity funds on international tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Marc holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University and a Master of International Taxation from the University of Melbourne.

Gavin Lau

Finance Director & Head of Operations
LGT Private Debt

Gavin Lau

Finance Director & Head of Operations
LGT Private Debt

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Gavin joined LGT Capital Partners in February 2020 and is responsible for all aspects of the finance & operations function across the Private Debt business on a pan-European basis. Focusing on the development and scalability of the operations platform alongside the growth in AUM. Gavin was most appointed as a UK Board member and joined the Private Debt management team in July 2023.

Prior to this, Gavin worked at Permira Credit for five years in the Fund Finance team. Primarily responsible for the oversight of investor reporting and fund administration across the flagship funds of both the Structured Credit and Direct Lending Platforms.

Gavin has over 17 years of financial services experience. He started his career at Grant Thornton qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and has also held roles at PwC and The Ingenious Group.

Vincent Lepoutre

Managing Director, Securitised Products Group
BNP Paribas

Vincent Lepoutre

Managing Director, Securitised Products Group
BNP Paribas

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Vincent Lepoutre has a wealth of financial experience, having spent over 25 years in investment banking, all at BNP Paribas

He spent 11 years in leveraged finance, rising to Director, before heading the restructuring practice in Hong Kong and Australia in 2008-2011 as Managing Director, and acquisition/leveraged finance Australia. He subsequently spent 4 years in Energy and Commodity Financing (2011-2015) where he was head of the Analyst Group, Head of balance sheet de-risking projects, and handled restructuring oil&gas exposures during the 2014 oil shock

Vincent has been in the Private Debt Financing team in Paris since 2016, and originated and executed BNP Paribas’ inaugural arranged facilities in that field and was instrumental in developing the franchise to its current market leading position.

Rhita Sami

Head of Asset Financing
Hayfin

Rhita Sami

Head of Asset Financing
Hayfin

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Ms. Sami joined Hayfin Capital Management in 2022 as Head of Asset Financing, focusing on the origination, structuring and management of efficient leverage solutions across Hayfin and all its funds. Prior to joining Hayfin, Ms. Sami worked in the Structured Solutions Sales team at MUFG for one year, offering leverage solutions for all credit asset classes to European asset managers. Prior to this, Ms. Sami worked at Citigroup for fifteen years where she held various structuring roles within European Fixed Income, notably in the fund financing space since 2016. Ms. Sami started her career in Debt Capital Markets, Bond Origination, at Société Générale in Paris and London. She holds a Masters in Finance from ESCP-EAP Paris.
18:00 - 18:30: Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat

Keynote Speaker Fireside Chat

Gregory Petrick

Partner
Cadwalader

Daniel Mays

Daniel Mays

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BAFTA nominated actor Daniel Mays was born in Epping, Essex and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Since graduating in 2000, he has won widespread critical acclaim for roles in a diverse range of films, television and theatre productions. Mays first rose to prominence in Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or nominated All or Nothing (2002) where he starred alongside Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville.

Continuing his working relationship with Mike Leigh, Mays starred alongside Imelda Staunton in the multi-award winning drama Vera Drake (2004). Mays memorably played Sid, who is forced to come to terms with his mother’s life shattering secret. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards and six British Independent Film Awards including Best British Independent Film. The following year saw Mays play the lead character of Carter Kranz in the BAFTA TV nominated BBC Three series Funland (2005).

In 2007 Mays starred alongside James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley in Joe Wright’s multi-award winning Atonement (2007), adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel. The film won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes and two Bafta Awards.

Mays received a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Eran Creevey’s Shifty (2009). Further to Mays nomination the film was nominated for a BAFTA award and a further four Independent Film Awards. Mays TV credits in 2009 include Channel Four Film's multi BAFTA TV award winning trilogy of films, Red Riding (2009) where he starred alongside Andrew Garfield and ITV’s BAFTA TV award winning The Street (2009).

In 2010 Mays starred alongside Sally Hawkins, Jamie Winstone and Bob Hoskins in Nigel Cole’s BAFTA nominated Made in Dagenham (2010). Mays TV work in 2010 included series three of the BBC’s hit crime drama Ashes to Ashes (2010) where he starred alongside Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes.

In addition to his TV and film work, Mays has also starred in seven stage plays at London’s Royal Court Theatre, which have included Ladybird, Motortown, The Winterling Scarborough and Hero. Simon Stephens wrote the lead role of Danny in Motortown with Mays in mind. In 2011, he starred in the Harold Pinter play, Moonlight, at the Donmar Warehouse. 2011 also saw Mays add his skills to Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s Golden Globe winning performance capture feature The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011).

2012 saw Daniel feature alongside Anna Friel in Public Enemies, and also star alongside Sheridan Smith in ITV’s hugely popular, BAFTA TV award winning Mrs Biggs . Mrs Biggs told the true story of Charmian Brent (Sheridan Smith) and her relationship with the infamous train robber Ronnie Biggs. Mays received a National Television Award nomination for his performance as Biggs.

In 2013, Mays focused on theatre work starting at the Donmar Warehouse in Trelawny of the Wells, working again with director Joe Wright (Atonement) and leading Nick Payne’s The Same Deep Water as Me. Mays also lead the cast in the mesmerizing revival of Jez Butterworth’s Mojo at The Harold Pinter Theatre in November. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the What’s On Stage Awards for his performances in Trelawny of the Wells and Mojo.

In 2014 Mays starred in the BBCs BAFTA TV award-winning Common (2014) a hard-hitting drama exploring the effects of the Joint Enterprise Law. In August that year he appeared in The Great War: The People’s Story (2014), which aired on ITV to mark the centenary of the First World War. Later that year Mays portrayed famous diarist Samuel Pepys in The Great Fire (2014) for ITV.

2015 saw a return to the stage in the National Theatre’s The Red Lion written by Patrick Marber – a play about the trials and tribulations of lower league football clubs. He also stared alongside Daniel Radcliffe & James McAvoy in Victor Frankenstien. 2016 launched with a starring role in the movie reboot of Dads Army as Private Walker, and continued his theatre run with another Pinter role at The Old Vic alongside Timothy Spall in The Caretaker.

Daniel was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor (in 2017), for his portrayal of Danny Waldron, the lead character under investigation in the award-winning BBC ‘Policing the Police’ drama Line Of Duty (March 2016). He then went on to receive more critical acclaim for his role as journalist Peter Wildeblood in the BAFTA nominated docu-drama Against the Law, and starred alongside Idris Elba in the Sky Atlantic series Guerrilla, as well as hit C4 drama Born to Kill. To top things off in 2017, he was handed the part of Tivik in Rogue One: A Star Wars story.

2018 saw Daniel feature in the critically acclaimed indie film Two For Joy (alongside Samantha Morton and Billie Piper) as well as hard hitting factual single drama’s The Interrogation (of Tony Martin) and Mother’s Day, both of which garnered incredible performance reviews for Mays across the board.

Early 2019 saw the release of rom-com Fisherman’s Friends, with Daniel taking the romantic lead as the fish-out-of-water music industry executive falling in love with the music and people of a small Cornish fishing village. This was followed by a turn in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s huge BBC 2 and Amazon Prime release Good Omens. He also starred alongside Mark Strong in the hit TV series for Sky Originals, Temple, which ran for two superb seasons.

In 2019, Spain and the Balearic Islands were the locations for the global hit (No.1 in 20+ countries through May/June of 2020) Ibiza set Netflix drama, White Lines. Going from strength to strength in 2020, Mays featured alongside other big-name cameos in Sam Mendes’ multi award-winning WW1 epic, 1917.

Daniel received widespread acclaim for his emotional performance as the arresting officer – and eyes of the audience - in ITV’s three-part series ‘Des’, focusing on the capture and conviction of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Featuring David Tennant as Nilsen and Jason Watkins and his biographer, ‘Des’ quickly became ITV’s biggest new drama launch since Broadchurch S1 in 2013 and with over 17 million views, it also became the most requested show on ITV Hub ever.

He was next seen back on the small screen alongside his buddies and Line of Duty alumni Stephen Graham and Anna Maxwell Martin, in laugh-out-loud futuristic buddy-cop comedy Code 404 for Sky Originals. Code 404 returned for two more seasons in 2021 & 2022. He recently starred alongside Lesley Manville in Britbox/BBC1’s Magpie Murders, Amazon’s Christmas movie in 2022, Your Christmas Or Mine, with a sequel coming for the 2023 festive season and also featured in Series 7 of Inside No.9.

2023 is no less busy for this in-demand, versatile actor, with multiple projects already underway. Daniel is currently on hiatus (shooting a new series for the BBC) from his smash-hit run of the musical Guys & Dolls (a career first for him in musical theatre) and spent most of the second half of 2022 back and forth from Paris, where he completed the historical limited drama for Apple TV+ alongside Michael Douglas. Working title ‘Franklin in Paris’, the period series tells the incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s time in Paris in the 1700’s, where he changed the course of world history and politics as we know it.

This September, Daniel re-teams with Des director Lewis Arnold on the much-anticipated ITV Drama ‘The Long Shadow’…...the story of the agonizing manhunt for The Yorkshire Ripper and he rounds out 2023 featuring in Netflix’ Chicken Run 2: Dawn Of The Nugget, coming this December.
18:30 - 22:00: Drinks