2014 Global Credit Products Conference
September 17 - 19, 2014 , New York
Panels and Special Sessions
China: Putting the Formidable Risks in Perspective
Host: Charles Chang (Credit Suisse, Head of Asia Credit Strategy, Hong Kong)
Panelists: Brian Coulton (Legal & General, Global Emerging Markets Strategist, London), Sanjay Jain (Credit Suisse, Head of Asian Banks Equity Research, Singapore)
Credit and the End of ZIRP
Host: James Sweeney (Credit Suisse, Global Economics Research, NY)
Panelists: Bob Brown (Fidelity, President, Global Bond Division, NH); Bob Miller (BlackRock, Head of Multi-Sector Mutual Funds and Rates, NY)
Credit ETFs: New Tools, Trading Trends and Evolving Landscape
Host: Joel Kent (Credit Suisse, Head of US CDS Trading, NY)
Panelists: Michael Brunell (State Street, Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Boston); Steve Laipply (Blackrock, Senior Investment Strategist, San Francisco); Robert Bernstone (Credit Suisse, Prime Services Trading, NY); Fer Koch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Credit Strategy, NY)
Cross-Border Leveraged Finance: A Global Perspective
Host: Mathew Cestar (Credit Suisse, Global Credit Products, Head of Leveraged Finance, EMEA, London)
Panelists: John Aylward (Highbridge Capital Mgmt, Portfolio Manager, London); Jonathan Butler (Pramerica (Prudential) Fixed Income, Head of European Leveraged Finance, London); Jon DeSimone (Sankaty Advisors, Managing Director, Boston); Jeremy Ghose (3i Debt Management Investments, CEO & Managing Partner, London); Stephan Sturm (Fresenius SE Co KGaA, CFO, London)
Distressed - Topical Legal and Financial Restructuring Issues
Host: Tom Lynch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Distressed Credit Strategy, NY), Manas Babbili, Kevin Van Dam (Credit Suisse, Distressed Credit & Special Situations Analysis, NY)
Panelists: JP Hanson (Houlihan Lokey, Managing Director, NY); Keith Wofford (Ropes & Gray, Partner, NY); Doug Mannal (Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, Partner, NY); John Rapisardi (O'Melveny & Myers, Partner, NY)
Distressed / High Yield Muni Credit
Host: Dan Berlin (Credit Suisse, Credit Distressed Analysis, NY); Tom Lynch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Distressed Credit Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Matt Fabian (Municipal Market Advisors, Senior Analyst, MA); Eric Friel (Stone Lion Capital Partners, Partner, NY); Mitchell Seider (Lathan and Watkins, Partner, NY)
Emerging Market Corporates: Market Trends and Best Ideas
Host: Jamie Nicholson (Credit Suisse, Emerging Markets Corporate Credit Research, NY)
Panelists: Gonzalo Borja (Credit Suisse Asset Management, Head of Emerging Markets Debt, Zurich); Charles Chang (Credit Suisse, Head of Asia Credit Strategy, Hong Kong); Michael Jakob (Credit Suisse, Head of Emerging Markets Loan Syndicate-Latin America (ex Brazil), NY) ; Ashish Sharma (Credit Suisse, Head of Loan Syndicate - Asia Pacific, Hong Kong)
European Banks : Identifying Value in the Capital Transformation Process
Host: Chris Tuffey (Credit Suisse, Head of Syndicate, EMEA)
Panelists: Bengt Edholm (Svenska Handelsbanken AB, Group Treasurer); Soren Kilsgaard (Nordea Investment Management, Head of Credit, Denmark); Sandeep Agarwal (Credit Suisse, Head of Debt Capital Markets, EMEA); Pieter Fyfer (Credit Suisse, European Financials Credit Sector Strategist, London); Chris Orr (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Investment Grade Trading, Europe)
European Corporate Hybrids: An Evolving Asset Class
Host: Simon Russell (Credit Suisse, European Co-Head of Flow Credit Sales)
Panelists: Phil Bagguley (Claren Road Asset Management, London); Hervé Boiral (AMUNDI Asset Management, Head of Credit); Franck Bataille (Credit Suisse, European Credit Sector Strategy, Paris); Chris Tuffey (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Credit Capital Markets, London)
European Distressed - Top Trade Ideas
Host: Pierluigi Volini, Philippe Lautenberg, Hilmar Schlenzka (Credit Suisse, Distressed Credit Desk, London)
European High Yield - Update & Top Picks
Host: Lee Hope (Credit Suisse, Credit HY, London)
Panelists: Alex Field, Marco Gironi (Credit Suisse, Credit HY, London)
European Regulatory Landscape
Host: Lisa Rabbe (Creidt Suisse, Public Policy EMEA, London)
European Strategy: Is it Over, Over There?
Host: William Porter (Credit Suisse, Credit Strategy, London)
European Structured Credit: Asset Financing Solutions
Host: Arun Cronin (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, London)
Panelists: Roshan Chagan (KKR, San Francisco); Mike Patterson (Highbridge Capital, Partner, NY)Chris Condelles (Credit Suisse, Global Credit Customer Financing, NY); Emmanuel Parrenin (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, London)
Evolution of Bank Regulation: Implications for Borrowers and Investors
Host: Chris Pare (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, NY)
Panelists: James Howard (Credit Suisse, Credit Structured Trading, London); Emmanuel Parrenin (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, London)
Finding Value in Distressed and Control Investing
Host: Ken Hoffman (Credit Suisse, Credit Distressed Trading, NY)
Panelists: Mike Bevacqua (Sankaty Advisors, Managing Director, Head of Distressed, Boston), Todd Lemkin (Canyon Partners, Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager, LA), Darren Richman (GSO Capital Partners, Partner & Portfolio Manger, NY)
Global Demographics: Implications for Growth, Debt, Asset Prices & Pensions
Host: Dr. Amlan Roy (Credit Suisse, Research Demographics, London)
Panelists: Michael Green (Ice Farm Capital, Founder & CEO)
Investment Grade/Crossover Team Best Ideas
Host: Robert Schiffman (Credit Suisse, Credit Product Sector Strategy, NY)
Key Topics in Washington for 2014
Host: Joe Seidel (Credit Suisse, Public Policy Americas, Washington DC)
Leveraged Finance Outlook
Host: Jonathan Blau (Credit Suisse, Leveraged Finance Strategy, NY)
Middle Market Loans as an Asset Class
Host: Jens Ernberg (Credit Suisse, Credit Special Situations, NY)
Panelists: Heath Fuller (NXT Capital, Head of Capital Markets, Chicago); Mike Patterson (Highbridge Capital, Partner, NY); Chris Sheldon (KKR, Co-Head of Leveraged Credit, San Francisco); Alex Wright (Apollo, Managing Director, US Corporate Debt, NY)
Monetary Policy Outlook Discussion and Q&A
Host: Ira Jersey (Credit Suisse, US Interest Rate Strategy, NY)
Moody's Energy Panel
Host: Kashif Malik (Credit Suisse, Credit Products Sector Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Pete Speer (Moody's, SVP-Senior Credit Officer, NY)
Moody's TMT Roundtable
Host: Rob Schiffman (Credit Suisse, Credit Product Sector Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Neil Begley (Moody's, Senior Analyst, NY); Richard Lane (Moody's, Senior Analyst, NY); Dennis Saputo (Moody's, SVP, NY)
It's All About You: Maximizing Your Wealth through Effective Planning, Credit Suisse Private Banking and Wealth Management
Host: Eric Berger (Credit Suisse, Private Banking and Wealth Management, NY)
Panelists: Alvina Lo (Credit Suisse, Wealth Planning, NY)
Technicals of the Front-end and Impact of Recent Reforms
Host: Stephen Byrne (Credit Suisse, Head of Short Term Sales, NY)
Panelists: Geoff Nolan (EBAY Inc, Head of Global Investments, CA); John Tobin (JPMorgan Asset Management, Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Management for the Global Liquidity Business, NY); Steven Feinberg (Credit Suisse, Head of US IG Sales & Trading, NY); Kieran Fitzpatrick (Credit Suisse, Credit Corp Trading, NY); Emily Gutman, (Credit Suisse, YCD/CP Trader, NY); Ira Jersey (Credit Suisse, US Interest Rate Strategy, NY); Jonathan Kuhl (Credit Suisse, Public Policy Americas, Washington DC)
U.S. Capital Markets Panel: M&A and Private Equity Outlook
Host: Jeff Cohen (Credit Suisse, Head of US Loan Capital Markets, NY); Marc Warm (Credit Suisse, Head of US High Yield Capital Markets, NY)
Panelists: Bob Cantwell (B&G Foods, CFO); Greg Mason (Advent International, Head of Capital Markets); Dennis Okhuijsen (Altice S.A., CFO): Trevor Watt (Hellman & Friedman, Head of Capital Markets); Greg Weinberger (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, NY)
U.S. Credit Strategy: IG & HY Opportunities
Host: Fer Koch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Credit Strategy, NY)
U.S. Distressed Bonds Panel
Host: Distressed Sector Strategists
U.S. Distressed Loan Panel
Host: Tom Lynch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Distressed Credit Strategy, NY); Jed Bradley, Jon Satran, Adam Searles (Credit Suisse, Credit Strategy Desk, NY)
U.S. High Yield Sector Strategy Best Ideas
Host: Bruce Klein, Adam Plissner (Credit Suisse, Co-Heads US Leveraged Finance Sector Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Sector Strategists
Where to Find Value in the Asia Pacific Debt Markets: An Investor Perspective
Host: Michael Tierney (Credit Suisse, Head of Leveraged Finance Asia Pacific, Fixed Income, GCP)
Panelists: JP Gaillard (Macquarie CAF, Division Director); Sandeep Gupta (Broad Peak Investment Advisers, Managing Director); David Kelleher (Fortress Investment Group, Chief Executive Officer, Australia); Paul Allan (Credit Suisse, Australian Head of US Leveraged Finance, GMSG, Australia); Paul Gamble (Credit Suisse, Fixed Income, Singapore); Matt Tehan (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Debt & Derivatives, GMSG, Australia)
China: Putting the Formidable Risks in Perspective
Host: Charles Chang (Credit Suisse, Head of Asia Credit Strategy, Hong Kong)
Panelists: Brian Coulton (Legal & General, Global Emerging Markets Strategist, London), Sanjay Jain (Credit Suisse, Head of Asian Banks Equity Research, Singapore)
Credit and the End of ZIRP
Host: James Sweeney (Credit Suisse, Global Economics Research, NY)
Panelists: Bob Brown (Fidelity, President, Global Bond Division, NH); Bob Miller (BlackRock, Head of Multi-Sector Mutual Funds and Rates, NY)
Credit ETFs: New Tools, Trading Trends and Evolving Landscape
Host: Joel Kent (Credit Suisse, Head of US CDS Trading, NY)
Panelists: Michael Brunell (State Street, Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Boston); Steve Laipply (Blackrock, Senior Investment Strategist, San Francisco); Robert Bernstone (Credit Suisse, Prime Services Trading, NY); Fer Koch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Credit Strategy, NY)
Cross-Border Leveraged Finance: A Global Perspective
Host: Mathew Cestar (Credit Suisse, Global Credit Products, Head of Leveraged Finance, EMEA, London)
Panelists: John Aylward (Highbridge Capital Mgmt, Portfolio Manager, London); Jonathan Butler (Pramerica (Prudential) Fixed Income, Head of European Leveraged Finance, London); Jon DeSimone (Sankaty Advisors, Managing Director, Boston); Jeremy Ghose (3i Debt Management Investments, CEO & Managing Partner, London); Stephan Sturm (Fresenius SE Co KGaA, CFO, London)
Distressed - Topical Legal and Financial Restructuring Issues
Host: Tom Lynch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Distressed Credit Strategy, NY), Manas Babbili, Kevin Van Dam (Credit Suisse, Distressed Credit & Special Situations Analysis, NY)
Panelists: JP Hanson (Houlihan Lokey, Managing Director, NY); Keith Wofford (Ropes & Gray, Partner, NY); Doug Mannal (Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, Partner, NY); John Rapisardi (O'Melveny & Myers, Partner, NY)
Distressed / High Yield Muni Credit
Host: Dan Berlin (Credit Suisse, Credit Distressed Analysis, NY); Tom Lynch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Distressed Credit Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Matt Fabian (Municipal Market Advisors, Senior Analyst, MA); Eric Friel (Stone Lion Capital Partners, Partner, NY); Mitchell Seider (Lathan and Watkins, Partner, NY)
Emerging Market Corporates: Market Trends and Best Ideas
Host: Jamie Nicholson (Credit Suisse, Emerging Markets Corporate Credit Research, NY)
Panelists: Gonzalo Borja (Credit Suisse Asset Management, Head of Emerging Markets Debt, Zurich); Charles Chang (Credit Suisse, Head of Asia Credit Strategy, Hong Kong); Michael Jakob (Credit Suisse, Head of Emerging Markets Loan Syndicate-Latin America (ex Brazil), NY) ; Ashish Sharma (Credit Suisse, Head of Loan Syndicate - Asia Pacific, Hong Kong)
European Banks : Identifying Value in the Capital Transformation Process
Host: Chris Tuffey (Credit Suisse, Head of Syndicate, EMEA)
Panelists: Bengt Edholm (Svenska Handelsbanken AB, Group Treasurer); Soren Kilsgaard (Nordea Investment Management, Head of Credit, Denmark); Sandeep Agarwal (Credit Suisse, Head of Debt Capital Markets, EMEA); Pieter Fyfer (Credit Suisse, European Financials Credit Sector Strategist, London); Chris Orr (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Investment Grade Trading, Europe)
European Corporate Hybrids: An Evolving Asset Class
Host: Simon Russell (Credit Suisse, European Co-Head of Flow Credit Sales)
Panelists: Phil Bagguley (Claren Road Asset Management, London); Hervé Boiral (AMUNDI Asset Management, Head of Credit); Franck Bataille (Credit Suisse, European Credit Sector Strategy, Paris); Chris Tuffey (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Credit Capital Markets, London)
European Distressed - Top Trade Ideas
Host: Pierluigi Volini, Philippe Lautenberg, Hilmar Schlenzka (Credit Suisse, Distressed Credit Desk, London)
European High Yield - Update & Top Picks
Host: Lee Hope (Credit Suisse, Credit HY, London)
Panelists: Alex Field, Marco Gironi (Credit Suisse, Credit HY, London)
European Regulatory Landscape
Host: Lisa Rabbe (Creidt Suisse, Public Policy EMEA, London)
European Strategy: Is it Over, Over There?
Host: William Porter (Credit Suisse, Credit Strategy, London)
European Structured Credit: Asset Financing Solutions
Host: Arun Cronin (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, London)
Panelists: Roshan Chagan (KKR, San Francisco); Mike Patterson (Highbridge Capital, Partner, NY)Chris Condelles (Credit Suisse, Global Credit Customer Financing, NY); Emmanuel Parrenin (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, London)
Evolution of Bank Regulation: Implications for Borrowers and Investors
Host: Chris Pare (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, NY)
Panelists: James Howard (Credit Suisse, Credit Structured Trading, London); Emmanuel Parrenin (Credit Suisse, Credit SCSG, London)
Finding Value in Distressed and Control Investing
Host: Ken Hoffman (Credit Suisse, Credit Distressed Trading, NY)
Panelists: Mike Bevacqua (Sankaty Advisors, Managing Director, Head of Distressed, Boston), Todd Lemkin (Canyon Partners, Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager, LA), Darren Richman (GSO Capital Partners, Partner & Portfolio Manger, NY)
Global Demographics: Implications for Growth, Debt, Asset Prices & Pensions
Host: Dr. Amlan Roy (Credit Suisse, Research Demographics, London)
Panelists: Michael Green (Ice Farm Capital, Founder & CEO)
Investment Grade/Crossover Team Best Ideas
Host: Robert Schiffman (Credit Suisse, Credit Product Sector Strategy, NY)
Key Topics in Washington for 2014
Host: Joe Seidel (Credit Suisse, Public Policy Americas, Washington DC)
Leveraged Finance Outlook
Host: Jonathan Blau (Credit Suisse, Leveraged Finance Strategy, NY)
Middle Market Loans as an Asset Class
Host: Jens Ernberg (Credit Suisse, Credit Special Situations, NY)
Panelists: Heath Fuller (NXT Capital, Head of Capital Markets, Chicago); Mike Patterson (Highbridge Capital, Partner, NY); Chris Sheldon (KKR, Co-Head of Leveraged Credit, San Francisco); Alex Wright (Apollo, Managing Director, US Corporate Debt, NY)
Monetary Policy Outlook Discussion and Q&A
Host: Ira Jersey (Credit Suisse, US Interest Rate Strategy, NY)
Moody's Energy Panel
Host: Kashif Malik (Credit Suisse, Credit Products Sector Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Pete Speer (Moody's, SVP-Senior Credit Officer, NY)
Moody's TMT Roundtable
Host: Rob Schiffman (Credit Suisse, Credit Product Sector Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Neil Begley (Moody's, Senior Analyst, NY); Richard Lane (Moody's, Senior Analyst, NY); Dennis Saputo (Moody's, SVP, NY)
It's All About You: Maximizing Your Wealth through Effective Planning, Credit Suisse Private Banking and Wealth Management
Host: Eric Berger (Credit Suisse, Private Banking and Wealth Management, NY)
Panelists: Alvina Lo (Credit Suisse, Wealth Planning, NY)
Technicals of the Front-end and Impact of Recent Reforms
Host: Stephen Byrne (Credit Suisse, Head of Short Term Sales, NY)
Panelists: Geoff Nolan (EBAY Inc, Head of Global Investments, CA); John Tobin (JPMorgan Asset Management, Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Management for the Global Liquidity Business, NY); Steven Feinberg (Credit Suisse, Head of US IG Sales & Trading, NY); Kieran Fitzpatrick (Credit Suisse, Credit Corp Trading, NY); Emily Gutman, (Credit Suisse, YCD/CP Trader, NY); Ira Jersey (Credit Suisse, US Interest Rate Strategy, NY); Jonathan Kuhl (Credit Suisse, Public Policy Americas, Washington DC)
U.S. Capital Markets Panel: M&A and Private Equity Outlook
Host: Jeff Cohen (Credit Suisse, Head of US Loan Capital Markets, NY); Marc Warm (Credit Suisse, Head of US High Yield Capital Markets, NY)
Panelists: Bob Cantwell (B&G Foods, CFO); Greg Mason (Advent International, Head of Capital Markets); Dennis Okhuijsen (Altice S.A., CFO): Trevor Watt (Hellman & Friedman, Head of Capital Markets); Greg Weinberger (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, NY)
U.S. Credit Strategy: IG & HY Opportunities
Host: Fer Koch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Credit Strategy, NY)
U.S. Distressed Bonds Panel
Host: Distressed Sector Strategists
U.S. Distressed Loan Panel
Host: Tom Lynch (Credit Suisse, Head of US Distressed Credit Strategy, NY); Jed Bradley, Jon Satran, Adam Searles (Credit Suisse, Credit Strategy Desk, NY)
U.S. High Yield Sector Strategy Best Ideas
Host: Bruce Klein, Adam Plissner (Credit Suisse, Co-Heads US Leveraged Finance Sector Strategy, NY)
Panelists: Sector Strategists
Where to Find Value in the Asia Pacific Debt Markets: An Investor Perspective
Host: Michael Tierney (Credit Suisse, Head of Leveraged Finance Asia Pacific, Fixed Income, GCP)
Panelists: JP Gaillard (Macquarie CAF, Division Director); Sandeep Gupta (Broad Peak Investment Advisers, Managing Director); David Kelleher (Fortress Investment Group, Chief Executive Officer, Australia); Paul Allan (Credit Suisse, Australian Head of US Leveraged Finance, GMSG, Australia); Paul Gamble (Credit Suisse, Fixed Income, Singapore); Matt Tehan (Credit Suisse, Co-Head of Debt & Derivatives, GMSG, Australia)
