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8 May 2025
Press Release
ELFA Publishes Best Practices Guidance for Co-Operation Agreements in Europe

The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) has today published a new Best Practices Guidance for Co-Operation Agreements (Co-Ops) in Europe, aiming to promote fairness, transparency, and market stability in the evolving landscape of European leveraged credit.

8 August 2024
Press Release
European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) Explores New Regime for Loan Origination Funds in Revised AIFMD 2

ELFA’s Engagement Committee recently held a Member Workshop with its Expert Panel partner, Akin, to help ELFA members understand the new rules applicable to loan origination funds under the revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD 2).

1 July 2024
Press Release
European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) Issues Open Letter, Schedules Roundtable Events to Address Market Standards in the European Leveraged Finance Market

ELFA urges market participants to adhere to its best practice guidance and invites engagement on same

14 September 2023
Press Release
European Leveraged Finance Association Appoints New Director of Engagement & Regulatory Affairs

The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Gladys Asogbon as the new Director of Engagement & Regulatory Affairs.

18 May 2023
Press Release
European Leveraged Finance Association outlines UCITS Fund limitations with potential solutions to allow collective investment in transferable securities.

European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) today issues a new report called ‘UCITS Funds Participating in New Money Transactions - Obstacles and Potential Approaches’ that reviews UCITS Fund limitations and considers options that would allow regulated investment funds falling under the European undertakings for the collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) regulation (“UCITS funds”) to participate in new money transactions to preserve value and allow for recoveries of distressed investments.

7 December 2022
Press Release
European Leveraged Finance Association provides Best Practice Guide to Syndication Process to help borrowers

The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) Engagement Committee has today released a guide to best practice on bank-led syndication processes from the perspective of ELFA members. The aim of the Best Practice Guide is to provide support to borrowers in the leveraged finance asset class at a challenging time, namely: volatile market conditions, condensed timelines and a deteriorating macroeconomic outlook.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
ELFA Seminar Series
ELFA Seminar Series with Pallas Partners LLP: Loan-to-own creditor-on-creditor violence – a European perspective in the face of a US onslaught?
22 May 2025
16:00–17:00 hrs
Zoom webinar

ELFA is delighted to invite all our members to a Seminar Series webinar with our new partners at Pallas Partners on a European perspective on creditor-on-creditor violence in the context of loan-to-own.

ELFA Supported
SuperReturn International
2–6 June 2025
09:00–17:00 hrs
InterContinental Hotel Berlin

ELFA is pleased to be supporting SuperReturn International on 2-6 June 2025 in Berlin.

ELFA Supported
ICMA Annual General Meeting and Conference 2025
4–6 June 2025
09:00–17:00 hrs
Kap Europa Messe Frankfurt

ELFA is pleased to be supporting the 57th edition of ICMA's Annual General Meeting & Conference on 4-6 June 2025 in Frankfurt.