Root and Branch: ESG’s Emergence in the Global Leveraged Finance Market
Date:
Monday, June 14 2021
Location:
On-Demand
Duration:
60 minutes
Summary
Join our complimentary webinar, as LCD and S&P Global Market Intelligence detail the growing reliance of ESG and sustainability-linked factors in the corporate bond and leveraged loan markets. Discuss this burgeoning segment with market thought leaders, including the following topics:
Current sustainability trends in the leveraged finance market
Tim CrossManaging Editor, Leveraged Commentary & Data, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Tim Cross manages digital and social media for S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Leveraged Commentary & Data, which reports in real time on the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets worldwide. Full Bio
Tim Cross manages digital and social media for S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Leveraged Commentary & Data, which reports in real time on the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets worldwide. As well as engaging subscribers, that means promoting the leveraged loan asset class to potential investors and to those wanting to learn more about the market. Before LCD he was Vice President at Reuters/LPC, where he edited the weekly magazine, Gold Sheets and oversaw LPC’s global editorial operations. Minimize
Speakers
S&P Global Contributor
Lindsey HallHead of ESG Thought Leadership, S&P Sustainable1
Lindsey Hall is Head of ESG Thought Leadership at S&P Global Sustainable1, where she co-hosts the ESG Insider podcast and is a Full Bio
Lindsey Hall is Head of ESG Thought Leadership at S&P Global Sustainable1, where she co-hosts the ESG Insider podcast and is a steering member of S&P Global's Diversity Research Lab.
She got her start in financial journalism writing for various Financial Times publications in London before joining SNL Financial in 2010, where she spent a decade covering financial news and regulation as a reporter and editor.
Lindsey holds a Masters from the London School of Economics. Minimize
S&P Global Contributor
Martin FridsonCIO, Lehmann, Livian, Fridson Advisors LLC
Martin Fridson is the Chief Investment Officer of Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors. He is also publisher of the Forbes/Fridson Income Securities Investor newsletter. Fridson is “perhaps the most well-known figure in the high yield world,” according to Investment Dealers’ Digest. He received his B.A. cum laude in history from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Full Bio
Martin Fridson is the Chief Investment Officer of Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors. He is also publisher of the Forbes/Fridson Income Securities Investor newsletter. Fridson is “perhaps the most well-known figure in the high yield world,” according to Investment Dealers’ Digest. He received his B.A. cum laude in history from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
He has served as president of the Fixed Income Analysts Society, governor of the Association for Investment Management and Research (now CFA Institute), and director of the New York Society of Security Analysts. The Financial Management Association International named Fridson the Financial Executive of the Year in 2002. In 2000, he became the youngest person ever inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame. A study based on 16 core journals ranked Fridson among the ten most widely published authors in finance in the period 1990-2001. In 2013 Fridson served as Special Assistant to the Director for Deferred Compensation, Office of Management and the Budget, The City of New York. In 2000, The Green Magazine called Fridson’s Financial Statement Analysis “one of the most useful investment books ever.” The Boston Globe said his 2006 book, Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace, should be short-listed for best business book of the decade. Minimize
S&P Global Contributor
Nina FlitmanSenior Editor, Leveraged loans, S&P Capital IQ
A financial journalist with over a decade's experience covering EMEA capital markets
Full Bio
A financial journalist with over a decade's experience covering EMEA capital markets, specialising in the European leveraged finance, syndicated loan, corporate bond and equity capital markets. Focusing on producing copy on newly priced event driven funding and refinancing, institutions' strategy, regulatory reform, and the operational infrastructure of the markets. Minimize
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Sam LukaitisDirector, Global Capital Markets, Carlyle
Sam Lukaitis is a Director advising on capital markets financings across the European activities of Carlyle. He co-ordinates financings for new buyouts, IPOs, debt raisings for refinancings and amendment activities. He is based in London. Full Bio
Sam Lukaitis is a Director advising on capital markets financings across the European activities of Carlyle. He co-ordinates financings for new buyouts, IPOs, debt raisings for refinancings and amendment activities. He is based in London.
Since joining Carlyle in 2016, Mr. Lukaitis has been involved in financings for a number of Carlyle portfolio companies including CEPSA, Logoplaste, PA Consulting, ADB Safegate, Irca, Twinset, Codorníu Raventós, Jeanologia, Accolade Wines, iNova Pharmaceuticals, PIB Group Limited and Barbon Insurance Group.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Lukaitis was a Managing Associate in the Leverage Finance team at Linklaters LLP.
Mr. Lukaitis received his B.Com. in economics and his LLB. in law (first class honors) from the University of Melbourne and is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Minimize
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