2024 Sponsors

SpecFin Capital is a boutique advisory firm with a £5bn track record of delivering capital solutions for specialty finance originators and complex loan portfolios. With a niche focus and deep expertise, we cover the full spectrum of specialty finance assets – 1st and 2nd lien mortgages, Bridging, Development Finance, Consumer, Auto and SME loans. Bespoke solutions include all types of private debt structures, forward flow and portfolio sales. Helping both early stage / start-up lenders seeking flexible capital to scale as well as mature businesses seeking to diversify funding sources. Able to support transactions from inception to closing and navigate complex processes. Nimble and constantly adapting to changing market dynamics and evolving product landscapes. We forge long-term partnerships with clients and leverage our extensive network of relationships with institutional investors.

One of the UK’s leading specialist lenders, Together has been making finance work to help our customers realise their ambitions for nearly 50 years. A strong, diverse and financially inclusive lender, we support a wide range of underserved customers including the self-employed, those with more complex incomes, in later life or with thin or impaired credit, landlords and SME and business customers. We offer our customers a wide range of flexible lending products including short-term finance, auction finance, residential, buy-to-let and commercial mortgages, secured loans and development finance.

Our Structured Finance & Capital Markets Services, your success! Trustmoore’s Structured Finance & Capital Markets team facilitates structured finance and capital markets transactions in the world’s leading financial centers with a unique, boutique approach. Our specialists have extensive experience in fixed income, capital markets, corporate and tax law, and accounting. This depth of knowledge allows us to fully understand your business, challenges, and priorities and provide seamless services in these complex areas. Among other structured capital market transactions, we excel in management and administrative services involving ABS, CLO, MBS, multijurisdictional programs, and repackaging. Our relevant experience and relationships within top-tier financial institutions, asset managers, legal and tax firms, and boutique firms enable us to establish fully independent third-party structures. We offer you integrated, tailored services and solutions, with your business needs as our focus. Our commitment to ongoing innovation and fostering long-term client relationships ensures that our service offering is optimal and supports your development and success. Whether you are a boutique asset manager or a large financial institution, you can benefit from our bespoke and complex global transactions experience and full range of services delivered efficiently, timely and orderly. Find out how we can help you with your Structured Finance & Capital Markets transactions.

Vieira de Almeida (VdA) is a leading international Portuguese law firm with over 40 years of history. VdA’s highly specialised legal services, covering several industries and practice areas, enable us to overcome the increasingly complex challenges faced by our clients. VdA offers robust solutions grounded in excellence, ethics and professionalism. The merit of our work is shared by our team, clients, and stakeholders, and is acknowledged by leading professional associations, legal publications, and academic entities. Our outstanding and innovative services are consistently acknowledged by the most prestigious international legal industry accolades and awards. Proud of our history, we build a future based on a culture that sets us apart, uniting us around a common purpose: the awareness that citizenship is the anchor of our practice. This is what makes VdA an open, inclusive, and solidary law firm, focused on people and committed to ensuring a fair opportunity to fulfil one’s potential. We promote a high level of individual responsibility and accountability, always working together as a team to place our clients’ interests first. Through the VdA Legal Partners, our clients have access to 7 jurisdictions, with a broad sectoral coverage in all Portuguese-speaking African countries, as well as Timor-Leste.

Vistra is a leading provider of essential business services. We help companies and private capital funds grow across the entire business and investment lifecycle. From HR to tax and from legal entity management to regulatory compliance, we quietly fix the operational and administrative frustrations that hamper business growth. As a close ally to our clients, our role is to remove the friction that comes from the complexity of global business. We partner with companies and private capital managers along the corporate and private capital lifecycle. With over 9,000 experts in more than 50 markets, we can accelerate progress, improve processes and reduce risk, wherever your ambition takes you.

Waystone is the leading provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry. Partnering with institutional investors, investment funds and asset managers, Waystone builds, supports and protects investment structures and strategies worldwide. With over 20 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone is now supporting asset managers with more than US$2.3Tn in AUM. Waystone provides its clients with the guidance and tools to allow them to focus on managing their investment goals with confidence. Waystone has a dedicated Corporate Services team with a vast amount of experience and knowledge providing investment governance and bespoke solutions to a wide variety of SPVs across all asset classes. Waystone supports an extensive range of structures and transactions including CLOs, CDOs, SPCs, debt programmes, repackagings, holding companies, asset-backed finance, credit funds, trade receivables, invoice factoring and sharia compliant transactions. We offer clients a complete suite of services, which differentiates us from our competitors. Each client is designated a dedicated Waystone team of highly skilled members: • Assigned Relationship Manager (“RM”) who is the one point of contact between the client and Waystone. • Dedicated and experienced finance team, with an assigned client manager. • Dedicated and experienced company secretarial team.