The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is a buyside-only trade association comprised of European investors and non-bank lenders in the high-yield, leveraged loan, CLO and private debt markets. Its membership consists of more than 55 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance corporates, CLO managers and pension funds.
ELFA seeks to support the growth and resilience of the leveraged finance market while acting as the voice of its community by promoting transparency, improving standards, and facilitating engagement among leveraged finance market participants.
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Octus to support its members across high-yield, leveraged loan, CLO and private debt markets.
ELFA is delighted to share its Annual Review of our 2024/25 membership year.
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA), has today with partners, global law firm Akin and Covenant Review, the expert on covenant analysis, published the fifth issue of its Transferability Series focused on loan transfer provisions. In this instalment, ELFA has observed issues with minimum transfer amounts and transfer fees, which often lead to delayed settlements, the creation of extra tickets, difficulty in trading following partial prepayments, increased transaction costs and additional fees.
ELFA is delighted to be holding our first member event in Switzerland this September - an in-person Corporate Actions and Restructuring Roundtable, kindly hosted by Wenger Plattner, in collaboration with our partners at Akin and Houlihan Lokey.
ELFA is delighted to update all members that our rescheduled Seminar Series webinar with Milbank on the differences between jurisdiction enforcement regimes, including Luxembourg, UK and the Netherlands, will now take place on Thursday 1st October at 3-4pm BST.
ELFA is delighted to announce the return of our Annual Conference 2026, with our co-hosts Milbank, on Tuesday 13th October in London!
We provide our members with an independent platform to address important issues, to promote industry leadership on critical issues like disclosure on ESG, and to develop regulatory engagement and representation.
We also provide educational resources through our Seminar Series and Academy, opportunities to progress important initiatives through our Committees, and a platform to express thought leadership through our Insights Series.
Through our Partners, we provide members with expertise and resources from leading covenant, legal, and restructuring advisers.
Our members work with our partners on initiatives to improve the market.
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