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A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. We have 48 offices in 29 countries, with nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets. This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. Our global structured finance, securitization and CLO team is consistently ranked as a market leader. Our lawyers advise on the full spectrum of structured finance transactions and products, including securitizations and CLOs, complex synthetic credit risk and significant risk transfer transactions, equity and illiquid asset financings, collateralized funding platforms, commodity structures, derivative securities, and repackagings. Our broad product focus enables us to offer end-to-end solutions across the structured finance “toolkit” and makes us trusted advisers to a broad suite of issuers, arrangers, investors, trustees, and agents.

ArrowMark Partners is an employee-owned asset management firm founded in 2007. Since inception, the firm’s mission has been to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns across multiple investment disciplines through in-depth fundamental research and an emphasis on downside risk mitigation. The firm seeks to cultivate the human capital of 46 investment professionals, which average 19 years of experience, and diverse investment capabilities to deliver upon client objectives. As of December 31, 2024, ArrowMark manages $19.9bn of assets across alternative credit, capacity-constrained equity, and commercial real estate strategies as well as through the management of broadly syndicated and middle market CLOs. The Firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with additional presence in London, New York, and California.With $9.5bn of investments in 118 significant risk transfer transactions since 2010, ArrowMark is one of the largest and longest tenured investors in the asset class. Insights from 14+ years of consistent investment in the asset class is complemented by team members’ experience at issuing banks and provides the ArrowMark team with a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics. The team’s collective experience spans all major collateral types, geographies, and regulatory frameworks.

Clifford Chance is one of the world's pre-eminent law firms, with significant depth and range of resources. We have 33 offices in 22 countries, spanning five continents. As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegial and team-based way of working. Clifford Chance is recognized for its global securitization and structured finance practice. Our lawyers are uniquely positioned to provide superior structured finance legal services in multiple jurisdictions, including the world’s most important financial centers. In the United States, our structured finance team includes more than 40 attorneys located in New York, Washington DC and Houston who advise clients at the forefront of the market. Our attorneys there are fully integrated with our global structured finance group, the largest international securitization group of any law firm. Our structured finance and securitization team focuses on structured real estate transactions and CLOs, cash and synthetic repackagings (including credit-linked securities), trade finance and cross-border transactions. Our structured products lawyers have been involved in establishing innovative risk transfer products and providing new tools to finance existing products to maximize capital efficiency and risk allocation.

With more than 150 structured finance lawyers in offices across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, Mayer Brown has one of the largest structured finance practices in the world—and with that size comes the knowledge, experience and manpower to tackle transactions of any scale in any jurisdiction. As financial markets become increasingly integrated, working with a law firm that understands the complexities and nuances of the key technologies and markets can deliver that elusive competitive edge. We are adept at handling the issues that arise as financial products converge and thrive on the challenges this presents. Drawing on our firm’s collective experience, we deliver creative, practical, business-oriented solutions no matter how a transaction evolves. Our team of lawyers has securitized nearly every conceivable asset type. When combined with our experience in the conduit, CDO, derivative and synthetic markets, we offer experienced teams with the intellectual depth and industry insight needed to assist clients as they explore and maximize both current and developing market opportunities. We have been a leader in the creation and expansion of the global and regional ABS and MBS markets and have securitized almost every asset type. Our mortgage-backed securities practice is comprehensive and international in scope. Our experience includes structuring securitizations of first-lien, home-equity and subprime residential mortgages, commercial mortgages and the resecuritization, repackaging and re-REMIC of MBS.

Societe Generale is a top tier European Bank with more than 126,000 employees serving about 25 million clients in 65 countries across the world. We have been supporting the development of our economies for 160 years, providing our corporate, institutional, and individual clients with a wide array of value-added advisory and financial solutions. Our long-lasting and trusted relationships with the clients, our cutting-edge expertise, our unique innovation, our ESG capabilities and leading franchises are part of our DNA and serve our most essential objective - to deliver sustainable value creation for all our stakeholders. The Group runs three complementary sets of businesses, embedding ESG offerings for all its clients: • French Retail, Private Banking and Insurance, with leading retail bank SG and insurance franchise, premium private banking services, and the leading digital bank BoursoBank. • Global Banking and Investor Solutions, a top tier wholesale bank offering tailored-made solutions with distinctive global leadership in equity derivatives, structured finance and ESG. • Mobility, International Retail Banking and Financial Services, comprising well-established universal banks (in Czech Republic, Romania and several African countries), Ayvens (the new ALD I LeasePlan brand), a global player in sustainable mobility, as well as specialized financing activities. Committed to building together with its clients a better and sustainable future, Societe Generale aims to be a leading partner in the environmental transition and sustainability overall. The Group is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe). For more information, you can follow us on Twitter/X @societegenerale or visit our website societegenerale.com