ABOUT BNP PARIBAS
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.
In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the European leader in consumer lending.
BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail-banking model in Mediterranean countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of credit market data, analytical tools and risk services; BMI Research, an independent provider of country risk and industry analysis specializing in emerging and frontier markets; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is majority owned by Hearst.
 
 
 

Moody's is an essential component of the global capital markets, providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO) is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and securities, and Moody's Analytics, which offers leading-edge software, advisory services and research for credit and economic analysis and financial risk management. Both organizations are supported by Moody's Shared Services.

Natixis is the international corporate and investment banking, asset management, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the 2nd-largest banking group in France with 31.2 million clients spread over two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne.

With more than 17,000 employees, Natixis has a number of areas of expertise that are organized into four main business lines: Asset & Wealth Management, Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance and Specialized Financial Services.

A global player, Natixis has its own client base of companies, financial institutions and institutional investors as well as the client base of individuals, professionals and small and medium-size businesses of Groupe BPCE’s banking networks.

Listed on the Paris stock exchange, it has a solid financial base with a CET1 capital under Basel 3⁽¹⁾ of €12.9 billion, a Basel 3 CET1 Ratio ⁽¹⁾ of 11.5 % and quality long-term ratings (Standard & Poor’s: A / Moody’s: A2 / Fitch Ratings: A).

⁽¹⁾ Based on CRR-CRD4 rules as reported on June 26, 2013, including the Danish compromise - without phase-in except for DTAs on tax-loss carryforwards following ECB regulation 2016/445.

Through a network of securitization specialists encompassing more than 40 countries, Deloitte, in the U.S. and globally through the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu limited, has one of the largest groups of dedicated accountant, advisory and technology professionals in the world. Deloittes specialists have the industry experience and know-how to serve clients throughout the securitization life cycle from origination, pooling, and capital raising to servicing, reporting, and operations support. Deloitte appreciates that securitization is a highly complex and intricate process which affects all parts of your business. Our interdisciplinary approach in addressing the complexities of these subjects enables us to offer tailored services that apply to the specific conditions for, and directions of, each client. Working closely with you, and your other advisors, we are able to gain an understanding of your needs and your objectives from both a structural and business perspective. Deloitte is then able to help you shape the most appropriate innovation solutions to help address the administration, accounting, compliance, and surveillance demands of today's market. Understanding our clients' needs and responding to them quickly, with consistent, knowledgeable advice and strategic ideas is the cornerstone of our client service philosophy. It has made Deloitte a leading global provider of accounting related services to the securitization industry.

About Deloitte
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations.

Rabobank is an international financial services provider operating on the basis of cooperative principles. It offers retail banking, wholesale banking, private banking, leasing and real estate services. As a cooperative bank, Rabobank puts customers’ interests first in its services. It serves approximately 8.6 million clients around the world. It is committed to making a substantial contribution to welfare and prosperity in the Netherlands and to feeding the world sustainably.

Markets is the organisational umbrella housing all of Rabobank’s Financial Markets related activities. Its core activities include Money Markets, Derivatives, Corporate & FI Sales and Capital Markets. Its main purpose is to provide innovative and professional financial services to enable the Bank’s clients to achieve their financial aims both through our core Food and Agri businesses as well as within other key expertise areas such as Commodities and Securitisation.

Rabobank's Capital Markets team of professionals are dedicated to servicing the strategic, financial and capital raising needs of our institutional and corporate clients in the following sectors: Securitisation & Covered Bonds, Financial Institutions, Public Sector (SSA), Corporates, Equity Capital Markets and Loan Syndication.

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Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies. As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. The registered shares (CSGN) of Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group AG, are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York.

EY is a leader in shaping the financial services industry

We are a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Over 30,000 of our people are dedicated to financial services, serving the banking and capital markets, insurance, and wealth and asset management sectors.

When the financial services industry works well, it creates growth, prosperity, and peace of mind for hundreds of millions of people.  No other industry touches so many lives or shapes so many futures.

At EY Financial Services, we share a single focus — to build a better financial services industry, not just for now, but for the future. We train and nurture our inclusive teams to develop minds that can transform, shape and innovate financial services. Our professionals come together from different backgrounds and walks of life to apply their skills and insights to ask better questions. It’s these better questions that lead to better answers, benefiting our clients, their clients and the wider community. Our minds are made to build a better financial services industry.  It’s how we play our part in building a better working world.

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Wells Fargo Securities delivers a comprehensive set of capital markets products and services to customers, including originating and distributing public debt and equity, hedging interest rates, commodity and equity risks, advising on mergers and acquisitions, and originating structured lending facilities and municipal bonds. The institutional broker dealer is comprised of nearly 5,000 team members in more than 40 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Wells Fargo is a premier provider of corporate trust services to the capital markets, serving the needs of investors, bondholders, and lenders. We offer trustee, agency, fiduciary, escrow, and other financial services to private corporations and government entities globally. We support clients across Europe, internationally and throughout the U.S. and can administer a wide array of assets and types of programs, including ABS, RMBS, CMBS, CLO securities and their underlying collateral, lease, fund services, Delaware statutory trusts, and various warehouse and conduit programs. Our offices are located in London, Dublin, and across the U.S. https://www.wellsfargo.com/com/securities
 
Wells Fargo Securities is the trade name for capital markets and investment banking services of Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiaries, including Wells Fargo Securities International Limited and Wells Fargo Bank N.A., London Branch, both are authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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As Intesa Sanpaolo's investment bank, Banca IMI is part of Italy's leading banking group whose network also includes a major international presence.
Banca IMI's key objective is to serve its customer base of institutional investors, financial networks, corporates, and government institutions, supplying financial products and services developed with standards of excellence.
Employing the expertise and skills of more than 850 professionals, Banca IMI is active in investment banking, structured finance and capital markets, operating in the main national and international markets, through offices in Milan, a London branch, and a subsidiary, Banca IMI Securities Corporation, based in New York.
Banca IMI provides a large range of financial products and solutions and has a strong finance and securities trading activity.  It structures risk management products for companies, institutional investors and local authorities and assists client companies in the raising of venture and debt capital, providing also financial consultancy solutions.
Banca IMI originates, structures and distributes securitisations, ABCP conduit and asset-based financing transactions across all asset classes and covered bond programmes on behalf of financial institutions and European corporate clients.
It also provides secondary market expertise  managing  ABS, MBS, CDO & Covered Bond trading books for the benefit of Banca IMI's broad institutional investor base across Europe and North America.
 

CSC® is one of the world's largest privately held businesses to offer debt-focused administration services to an institutional client base.
 
We provide tailored Corporate Administration, Corporate Trust and Agency, and Specialized Outsourcing services in the areas of private equity, real estate, and structured finance markets.
 
We support alternative finance lenders, fund managers, borrowers, and capital markets participants across the full range of asset classes with dedicated financial teams, offering a comprehensive range of adaptable services to address needs across the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions.
 
CSC is focused on adaptive technologies, and able to develop bespoke solutions to complex transaction issues. We are the trusted partner for 90% of the Fortune 500^®, nearly 10,000 law firms, and more than 3,000 financial organizations.
 
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, since 1899, we are a global company capable of doing business wherever our clients are—and we accomplish that by employing experts in every business we serve.

RBC Capital Markets is a premier global investment bank providing expertise in banking, finance and capital markets to corporations, institutional investors, asset managers and governments around the world. We serve clients from 70 offices in 15 countries across North America, the UK, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Our more than 7200 professionals deliver the experience and insights required to raise capital, access markets, mitigate risk and acquire or dispose of assets for clients worldwide. We are consistently ranked, by third-party sources, among the 10 largest and most significant investment banks globally.

Royal Bank of Canada.   RBC Capital Markets is part of a leading, diversified provider of financial services, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Operating since 1869, RBC is one of the largest banks in the world and the fifth largest in North America, as measured by market capitalization. With a strong capital base and consistent financial performance, RBC is among a small group of highly rated global banks.

About UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking

UniCredit is a simple, pan-European commercial bank providing unique access to Western, Central and Eastern Europe with an unrivalled strategic presence in 14 European core markets and an International Network spanning another 16 countries worldwide.

UniCredit Corporate & Investment Banking is fully plugged into UniCredit Group and serves 1,500 multinational corporates and key financial institutions and supports the Group’s corporate banking units in delivering services to 600,000 corporate and public sector clients. Furthermore, we deliver investment solutions for UniCredit’s retail and private banking clients.

At home throughout Europe, we are the partner of choice for our clients’ increasingly sophisticated demand for Corporate Banking and Transaction Services, Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Investment Products. We offer local expertise as well as international reach and accompany our clients globally. We are a leading corporate lender and underwriter in Europe with over EUR 300 billion outstanding. As a leader in debt and trade finance, we consistently rank in the top three positions in league tables for combined loans and bonds in Euros and are recognized as a Trade Finance Powerhouse in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. 

UniCredit CIB is an expert in structured products based on securitisation techniques. The Securitised Products Team, within the Corporate & Investment Banking division, structures, finances and places transactions for corporate clients and financial institutions in the core markets of UniCredit as well as for UniCredit.
 
The business model of Securitised Products for corporate clients is geared towards international and national companies, and satisfies their needs with tailored solutions.
 
UniCredit has developed and implemented a series of successful securitisation platforms addressing risk transfer as well as funding requirements. In addition, UniCredit is active as a sponsor on the European and American market with the multi-seller program Arabella Finance, one of the largest program in Europe.

Malta is internationally recognised as a brand denoting excellence in financial services. It offers an attractive cost- and tax-efficient base for financial services operators looking for a European Union-compliant, yet flexible, domicile.
FinanceMalta, a non-profit public-private initiative, was set up to promote Malta as an international Business & Financial Centre, both within, as well as outside Malta. It brings together, and harnesses, the resources of the industry and government, to ensure Malta maintains a modern and effective legal, regulatory and fiscal framework in which the financial services sector can continue to grow and prosper.

The Board of Governors, together with the founding associations: The Malta Funds Industry Association, the College of Stockbrokers, the Malta Bankers Association, the Malta Insurance Association, the Association of Insurance Brokers, the Institute of Financial Services Practitioners, and the Malta Insurance Managers Association which is also affiliated; its members and staff are committed to promote Malta as a centre of excellence in financial services and international business.

GLAS is a global, independent, conflict-free provider of loan agency and corporate trustee services. We provide a front office approach to typically back office services and have expertise in handling complex transactions proactively, with speed and flexibility whilst focusing on customer service. GLAS is solution-driven with extensive experience working alongside our clients as an Agent on unitranche transactions. We are the Agent of choice on restructuring transactions where there is a need to change the Agent or Trustee. We are based in London, with offices in New York, New Jersey, Sydney and Singapore.

Morgan Lewis's structured transactions practice serves the financing needs of the world's most sophisticated businesses around the globe. Our lawyers represent a broad range of leading financial institutions, investment funds, and issuers in the financial services, automotive, education, government, real estate, telecommunications, and technology industries. Since 2002, our structured transactions practice has advised on more than 7,800 deals with a combined value of more than $4 trillion, representing key issuers and underwriters in designing and executing offering programs and one-of-a-kind transactions, many of which were important industry firsts. Our team serves clients from offices in key financial centers such as New York, Washington, DC, London, Shanghai, Singapore, and Dubai, giving our practice a truly global presence to meet our clients' needs.

We assist clients with the development of innovative liquidity vehicles and provide counsel on the acquisition and disposition of financial companies and assets. Underwriters and issuers turn to us to advise on a broad range of transactions—from public offerings of asset-backed securities (ABS) to collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and whole loan purchases. We also counsel private equity firms on issues such as the acquisition of distressed mortgage loans and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).

Our practice has been ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA since 2011 and ranked in Chambers UK in 2018.  We are recognized as "Law Firm of the Year" in Securitization and Structured Finance Law by US News & World Report – Best Lawyers, marking the fourth time in a five-year period that we have received this recognition.

In addition, we collaborate seamlessly across time zones and disciplines to offer in-depth insight into relevant corporate, tax, bankruptcy, and regulatory matters. We pride ourselves on our ability to tailor advice to meet the needs of clients in virtually any industry.

Areas of Service

• Asset-Backed Securities
• Mortgage-Backed Securities
• Mortgage Finance
• Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs), CDOs, and Structured Products
• Derivatives
• Acquisition Finance
• Distressed Assets
• Whole Loan Purchases and Sales

Sidley has been at the forefront of the European securitisation market since the early 1990’s and since that time has been involved in a number of ground breaking securitisation products and structures in numerous European jurisdictions, including establishing domestic and pan-European CMBS platforms, asset-backed commercial paper and securities conduits, RMBS related products, whole business securitisations and covered bonds as well as a deep experience in advising arrangers, managers and investors on CLO and CDO transactions. Our securitisation lawyers in Europe and the U.S. have a deep and well established practice in all areas of securitisation, structured finance and derivatives, with market-leading experience of the full gamut of asset classes and structures. Our lawyers have particular experience in securitisations and secured financings involving corporate (mid-market and syndicated) loans, rental fleets, consumer assets such as personal loans, auto-loans and leases and credit cards, trade and other more specialised receivables and more recently in the rapidly growing market for financings of online marketplace and peer-to-peer lending and other fintech including structures utilising blockchain, distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrencies. We are also at the cutting edge of innovative asset classes such as solar energy, insurance products and IP securitisations.

TMF Group helps its clients operate internationally and ‘belong’ wherever they are in the world. We do this by making sure they are properly set up to do business in any country and compliant with local and international regulations.

Our work includes helping companies of all sizes with business services such as HR and payroll, accounting and tax, corporate secretarial, global governance and administration services for structured finance, private equity and real estate investments.

In today’s environment, increasing business complexity means that a one size approach doesn’t fit all - and the penalties for getting it wrong are getting heavier. Operating in over 80 jurisdictions we provide our 15,000 clients with on-the-ground compliance and administration services so they can venture further. We keep things running seamlessly, giving them the peace of mind to focus on the bigger picture.

Our people localise the global world to help businesses succeed, which in turn helps communities to prosper. We firmly believe that the only way to be truly ‘global’ is to put local first, which is what our team of 7,000 in-country experts do for businesses of all sizes, every day.

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Assured Guaranty works with banks, insurance companies, finance companies, asset managers and other organizations to develop capital management and structured finance solutions to meet their unique needs.  We enable efficient risk transfer in public or private transactions for financial institutions, and we provide cost-effective credit enhancement for consumer and commercial asset securitizations in both new issue and secondary markets,  improving the creditworthiness, marketability and market liquidity of such transactions. For more information, visit www.AssuredGuaranty.com

Dechert's Securitization team handles large, complex securitization and structured finance transactions across the full range of asset classes and securitization structures: collateralized loan obligation transactions and in offerings of both traditional (such as auto, credit card and trade receivables) and esoteric asset-backed securities; CMBS, RMBS, Re-REMICs, NPLs and other alternate securitized structures involving commercial real estate and residential mortgages; acquisition, structuring, financing, sale and syndication or securitization of large complex loans; and the purchase, sale and financing of loan pools. Our U.S., UK and European team members work closely with our tax, securities, ERISA, environmental, real estate, regulatory and restructuring lawyers around the world to provide clients with full service on all aspects of their transactions.

Prytania Solutions (PSL) is an expert, independent provider of valuation and risk advisory services in the structured credit markets. We cover cash and synthetic ABS, CMBS, RMBS, CLOs, CDOs, and other bespoke asset classes.

Using proprietary algorithms, PSL produces thousands of evaluated prices across multiple asset classes, covering both the liquid and illiquid parts of the structured credit markets.

Our clients can have full access to the metrics behind their valuations and benefit from a very transparent price challenge protocol. Uniquely for a valuation provider, our principals have 100+ years of expertise in managing, trading and analysing structured credit. PSL provides its clients with “more than a price”.

PSL also carry out cashflow analytics / deal modelling. Our tools have been developed over many years and can apply stochastic as well as deterministic analyses at the loan level as well as the portfolio level. Ideal for deal structuring / origination and stress testing

SANNE is a leading global provider of alternative asset and corporate services.

Established for over 25 years and listed as a FTSE 250 company on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, SANNE employs more than 1,200 people worldwide and administers structures and funds that have in excess of £200 billion of assets.

As leaders in our field, we deliver tailored fiduciary services to a highly valued international client base through a global network of regulated businesses within 15 leading financial jurisdictions spread globally across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific. We service clients through a number of specialist businesses which are led by directors with extensive asset class and market experience. They in turn are supported by multifunctional teams aligned to the specific requirements of each client, across one accredited platform.

We provide a fully integrated client services that includes administration, AIFMD depositary and AIFM management company services. We have dedicated expertise in capital markets, real estate, private equity, hedge, institutional, executive incentives, private client and investment treasury services.

GlobalCapital is a leading news, opinion and data service for people and institutions using and working in the international capital markets. It provides you with clearly-voiced, lively coverage of key markets based on the comments of those who work in them, together with a wealth of transaction data and archive material.  Whether you wish to pick up the pulse of your market, to research in detail an issuer, intermediary or asset class in a particular sector, or to check out how your institution is performing relative to its peers, our service is for you.

GlobalCapital descends directly from EuroWeek (“the voice of the markets”), which has been covering new issues in primary markets for 26 years.  Joining the platform are also several key capital markets publications from the Euromoney Institutional Investor Group: Asiamoney, Total Securitization and Derivatives Week.  GlobalCapital also sees the introduction of a brand new service on the internationalisation of the RMB.

The combination of these elements on state-of-the-art new web technology provides a device-neutral, flexible global news and data service where relevant related articles and data are a click away.

GlobalCapital.com delivers daily services dedicated to the following key market sectors: FIG/Bank Finance including Covered Bonds, Corporate Bonds, Syndicated Loans, Equity, Leveraged Finance, Sovereign and Supranational and Agency Bonds (SSA), SRI/Green Bonds, Global Emerging Markets, Securitization, Asia Pacific Markets, Derivatives, and Offshore RMB. The service comes with sector specific priced deals data sets, league tables, deal pipelines and people moves.

BarclayHedge is a leading independent, research based provider of information services to the alternative investment industry. Founded in 1985, no other firm has been in the alternative investment database business for as long as we have. Barclay began publishing fund data for CTAs and hedge funds in 1989 and currently maintains data on more than 33,500+ alternative investment vehicles. BarclayHedge provides access to its hedge fund, fund of funds, and managed futures databases to thousands of investors worldwide in Excel, Access, and formats compatible with most third party analysis packages. Barclay’s 17 hedge fund indices, 8 managed futures indices, and 7 UCITS indices are universally recognized as alternative investment performance benchmarks and are utilized by investment professionals around the globe.

Debtwire, an Acuris company, is the leading provider of expert news, data and analysis on global leveraged credit. Our end-to-end coverage goes behind the scenes from primary issuance to the first sign of stress through restructuring and beyond. With global breadth and local depth, Debtwire's award-winning editorial, research and legal analyst teams produce original content that helps subscribers make more informed decisions. Subscribers trust Debtwire - the pioneer in the market - for comprehensive coverage across geographies, companies and asset classes.

FocusEconomics is a leading provider of economic analysis and forecasts for 127 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, as well as price forecasts for 33 key commodities. The company is supported by an extensive global network of analysts.

Since its launch in 1999, FocusEconomics has established a solid reputation as a reliable source for timely and accurate business intelligence among Clients from a variety of industries, including the world's major financial institutions, multinational companies and government agencies.

The ICLG series provides current and practical comparative legal information on a range of practice areas.

Our comprehensive guides follow a question and answer format to ensure thorough coverage of each topic within different legal systems worldwide.

Each guide draws together the collective expertise of our contributors to provide a valuable and convenient resource, updated annually.

The ICLG series provides a practical insight for general counsel, government agencies and private practice lawyers keeping them abreast of law and policy globally.

Investing.com is a global financial portal and internet brand composed of 28 editions in 21 languages and mobile apps for Android and iOS that provide news, analysis, streaming quotes and charts, technical data and financial tools about the global financial markets. Each edition covers a broad variety of local and global financial vehicles including Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Interest Rates, Futures and Options. Founded in 2007, Investing.com has a growing readership worldwide and is now a leading global financial portal committed to constantly launching innovative features and sections to ensure an optimal one-stop source for its readers.

Capital Markets Intelligence publishes a comprehensive range of titles covering the international financial markets. Our publications provide our readers with incisive commentary and market driven analysis that is recognised as a primary source of research for leading investors and financiers worldwide.

Areas covered include: international capital markets, structured finance, securitisation, private banking, wealth management, leasing, asset finance, aircraft finance, debt capital markets, equity capital markets and insolvency.

Internationally acclaimed as the standard reference sources on their subjects, Capital Markets Intelligence provides an unrivalled source of information for global decision makers.