This webcast examined how companies increasingly use non traditional financing structures to raise liquidity without incurring conventional on balance sheet debt—and the resulting implications for lenders, credit agreements, and risk assessment. Companies commonly rely on tools such as sale‑leasebacks, factoring, supply chain finance, and securitizations to improve liquidity, manage working capital, and comply with leverage‑based...
This webcast provided a practical and accessible introduction to Islamic finance, designed specifically for participants in the global loan markets who may be less familiar with Shari’a‑compliant financing structures but increasingly encounter them in practice. The session explained the fundamental principles underpinning Islamic finance and how these translate into the most commonly used Islamic financing...
Energy and finance professionals from Haynes and Boone, BOK Financial and Opportune will discuss the key business issues to consider for oil and gas securitizations and reserve-based loans. Open to: LSTA Members CLE credit information: 1.5 NYS CLE credits will be issued (for other jurisdictions, attorneys must apply for CLE individually) This webcast does not...
This year’s conference, “Building the Modern Corporate Loan Market Together: Connecting Operations, Technology & Market Participants,” provided attendees with opportunities for networking, education, and collaboration on topics related to the broadly syndicated loan and private credit markets. We spent the day sharing ideas and brainstorming solutions so that we can, together, address the operational challenges...
In this webinar Jasmeet Ahuja and Alex Ervin of Hogan Lovells explained the basics of AI, what it can do, how we can harness it and use it, and how it can help us in our loan market jobs. They also covered what we can expect from this incredible learning tool and how it is...
Surveys consistently show that geopolitical risk is perceived as one of the principal sources of disruption to the current loan market. So, what can we expect for 2026? Geopolitical analyst and advisor David Chmiel returned to provide his annual overview of the key international challenges to the loan market and the global economy. Members joined...
In this installation of the series, energy and finance professionals from Haynes and Boone LLP and Opportune LLP discussed key trending legal and business issues to consider for oil and gas financings, including securitizations. Open to: LSTA members CLE credit information: 1.5 CLE credits will be issued* Does not offer CLE credits for replay Speakers:...
This interactive program used limericks (the last word of which the audience had to guess) to explore ethics issues involved in lawyers’ practice and their firms. Among other things, the program addressed: unauthorized practice of law and multijurisdictional practice (including the definition of legal practice, temporary and virtual practice and choice of ethics rules); law...
Kicking off with our then-and-now Market Overview, this year’s series will offer 12 dynamic sessions, including: Understanding the Credit Agreement LSTA Advocacy 101 in Three Acts How to Read a BDC 10-Q/10-K Beyond Borders: CRD VI's Impact on U.S. Lending Digital Assets and Crypto-Based Credit Agreement: 101 Ethics of AI Understanding Corporate Loan Market Liquidity...
Our 2025 Annual Conference looked both back and forward at the state of the corporate loan market. In celebrating LSTA’s 30th anniversary, LSTA revisited some of the key market events that shaped the industry as it is today, from the emergence of the Morningstar Index to the LIBOR-to-SOFR transition. At the same time, speakers looked...
This year’s conference agenda was built around the theme of Navigating a Path Forward; to do so, the LSTA has assembled a trio of expert keynotes that will address the economy, AI, and the intersection of geopolitics and technology.We begin with the economy, where world-renowned economist and financial expert, Marci Rossell, will provide her “Economic...
