The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is pleased to announce Greenlit Consultancy Sarl (‘Greenlit’) as a new partner. Greenlit is a boutique, Luxembourg incorporated consultancy focusing on support services for the Sustainable Finance Market. Services include assistance with Green Bond certification, post-issuance verification agent services for sustainability linked securities/loans in line with The ICMA Principles, acting as a ESG Committee member, and stock exchange listing. In the Private Equity sector, Greenlit can provide in-house services to support portfolio companies on specific projects to achieve their value creation objectives.
Partnering with ELFA, Greenlit will be offering members its insights as a sustainability co-ordinator which can assist with defining a CLO sustainable investment strategy, performing periodic review of the CLO portfolio as to adherence to the latter, harmonising ESG reporting obligations or ad hoc projects related to implementing sustainability best practices.
Greenlit was founded in 2015 by Jackie Geisen who has more than 30+years in financial sector working for major corporate trust and agency services providers both in Luxembourg and London. She is very passionate about sustainability and is devoted to help drive sustainable transformation in the finance sector.
ELFA’s CEO Sabrina Fox, commented: “We are delighted to welcome Greenlit as a new partner to ELFA. ESG remains a priority for the leveraged finance market and we welcome the technical expertise, insight and guidance that Greenlit offers our members.”
Jackie Geisen, Founder and CEO at Greenlit added: “Greenlit is excited to become a member of ELFA as we view the aims of the association of being very much aligned to those of Greenlit in supporting the leveraged finance market to deliver on market best practice. We are confident of a great future collaboration and opportunities for both Greenlit and members of ELFA.”
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Irem Sukan, Marios Halloumis and Glenn Oliver Anderson as the new Co-Chairs of the ESG Committee. Irem, Marios and Glenn will take over from Tina De Baere, Oliver Newman and Lily Baik following their decisions to step down.
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) has published a summary of industry roundtables, held in response to its recent Open Letter (“Taking Stock of Market Standards on Disclosure, Process, and Engagement in the European Leveraged Finance Market”) which highlighted persistent concerns around limited disclosure, overly compressed deal timelines, and increasingly restrictive transferability terms, all of which are undermining efficiency and resilience in Europe’s leveraged finance market.
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA), in collaboration with global law firm Akin, has today published the second issue in its Transferability Series, focusing on the evolving use of whitelists in leveraged finance documentation.
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