6th Annual European Leveraged Capital Markets
Event overview
Event Radar’s 6th Annual European Leveraged Capital Markets
Supported by the European Leveraged Finance Association
Date: Wednesday 16th October 2024
Registration: 13:00
Panel Discussion Starts: 14:00
Venue: Chartered Accountants Hall, One Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA
Events Radar’s European Leveraged Capital Markets in-person event, now in its 6th year, will convene an expert panel to review activity and sentiment across the market’s sub-segments. The panel will take the current pulse of the market, discuss the multiple factors driving deal flow and performance, and look ahead to 2025.
What have been the stand-out moments and transactions of the European leveraged finance market year-to-date? How is market sentiment as we head to US presidential elections and to year end and beyond? What have been the key underlying drivers of activity in the European leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets? Where do we stand on LBO activity, and CLO formation? And how has the leveraged asset class performed YTD?
Other key talking points:
- ESG-specific regulations and leveraged finance: how can data disclosure be improved?
- AI and its effects on the leveraged finance market and its stakeholders.
- Exploring creditor-on-creditor violence: a jurisdictional comparison across Europe and the US.
- Are investors getting adequately compensated to engage with this market?
- Recovery rates on European rated first-lien-only debt structures in default scenarios fell below historical averages earlier in 2024. Should the market be concerned, particularly in a covenant-lite world and with debt structures lacking second-lien and mezzanine layers?
- How are speculative-grade default rates looking?
- Transparency and legal understanding of covenants.
- Exploring the private credit/syndicated market interplay.
- Democratisation of private credit: impact of the opening of the asset class to retail investors.
Once again moderated by Keith Mullin, the event will convene an expert panel from across the market to review in interactive mode the key areas of market interest.