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2006 Annual Meeting - Sponsors

 

PATRON SPONSORS

 

  Fitch Ratings is a leading global rating agency committed to providing the world's credit markets with independent, timely and prospective credit opinions. Built on a foundation of organic growth and strategic acquisitions, Fitch Ratings has grown rapidly during the past decade gaining market presence throughout the world and across all fixed income markets.  Fitch Ratings is dual-headquartered in New York and London, operating offices and joint ventures in more than 47 locations and covering entities in more than 90 countries, including insurer financial strength ratings on over 1,900 insurance companies. Fitch Ratings is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., an international business support services group headquartered in Paris, France.

 Our Firm is one of the pre-eminent law firms in the field of securitization and structured finance, and has been a key participant since the origin of this business in the U.S. financial markets over 20 years ago. Few firms can match the duration and depth of our experience in this field. Our Structured Finance Practice Group includes more than 100 attorneys, based primarily in New York and Washington, D.C., providing clients with the critical mass of resources, expertise and experience necessary for top-tier structured finance legal services. We represent issuers, underwriters and all other types of transaction participants in the United States, throughout Europe and Asia, and in Latin America through our affiliate office in Mexico City. Our domestic and cross-border experience includes: residential mortgage securitization (including HELOCs and reperforming loans); commercial and franchise loan securitization; resecuritizations; CBOs and CLOs; asset-backed securitization (including equipment leases, health care receivables, trade receivables, credit cards and student loans); commercial paper conduits; cross-border project leasing transactions; offshore and international securitizations; asset finance; CDOs; derivatives; synthetic securitizations; and regulatory compliance and loan level diligence. Our commitment is to provide top quality, responsive, creative and courteous service to all of our structured finance clients.

 

LUNCH SPONSORS

 

   Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) provides both issuers and investors with a global, solution-driven approach to their debt finance or investment needs based on an integrated debt and treasury platform. SG CIB’s Securitization group has been active for more than a decade and is organized on a global basis.  The team of over 100 professionals provides arrangement, structuring and advisory services in Europe (Paris, London, Madrid, Milan and Amsterdam), North America (New York, Chicago and Montreal), and Asia-Pacific (Sydney). Our U.K. and U.S.-based Syndication and Trading teams provide global distribution capacity in the public and private markets.  The Securitization team has closed several hundred public and private transactions worldwide across a wide range of asset types including Residential and Commercial Mortgages, Auto as well as Equipment Receivables, Consumer or Student Loans, Future Flow Receivables, Trade Receivables and CDOs. SG CIB is a leading underwriter of ABS and MBS in Europe, ranking #1 for Euro-denominated securitizations, #1 for Euro-denominated synthetic RMBS, #6 for all European Mortgage Backed securitization, #7 for international structured finance-all currencies, and #3 Australian securitization, according to Thomson Financial and Euroweek’s league tables and SG research (Nov. 05). SG CIB’s structuring and distribution expertise was also recognized by IFR, which awarded the “European RMBS Deal of the Year 2004” award to Credit Logement for the French Residential Assets 2004-1 & 2004-2 Plc transactions, Euromoney, which awarded the “Best Structured Finance Deal for 2004 in North America” award to 1^st Financial for their SG CIB led student credit card securitization Euroweek SFI, which awarded the “Consumer Finance Deal of the Year” award to the Cars Alliance Funding plc Series 2002-1 issue for RCI Bank, part of the Renault Group. The same transaction was ranked Runner-up for “Best Securitisation of 2002”  by Corporate Finance magazine. In June 2005, SG CIB was also named by Euromoney as the “Most Improved Debt House” in Western Europe and the “Best Debt House” in France and Spain. In addition to structuring, arranging and distributing term ABS, SG CIB is the seventh largest ABCP Program Administrator in terms of outstandings, based on Moody’s and SG CIB Research. SG CIB administers eight multi-seller Conduit and Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs) covering the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia with total aggregate outstanding of approximately USD 27 billion.

 

ADVOCATE SPONSORS

 

   Since 1985, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP professionals have added insight, consistency and value to more than 14,000 securitized offerings with an aggregate principal amount of more than $5 trillion.  Our effectiveness is derived from the experience we bring, coupled with our research, study and devotion to the intricate business of securitization.  Understanding that securitization is a combination of process, regulation and technology, we have assembled the wealth and depth of experience – from the beginning of the securitization process to the end – to offer you a comprehensive business solution to your securitization challenges.  Serving leading players in the MBS, ABS, CDO and CMBS markets, domestic and global, we offer state-of-the-art products and expert services in financial modeling, analytics, technology, operations, due diligence, accounting and tax. 

 

  Lloyds TSB Bank (rated Aaa/P-1 & AA/A-1+) is the largest and one of the longest serving third-party providers of liquidity to ABCP conduits in the US. For over 10 years we have worked as a partner with many US based Sponsors, providing liquidity to their conduits.  Lloyds TSB also sponsors London based Cancara Asset Securitisation, a P-1/A-1+ rated multi-seller conduit which has the ability to fund in the US and Euro ABCP markets.  The primary focus of Cancara is to purchase or finance pools of receivables originated by corporates and financial institutions in the UK and the rest of Western Europe, as well as the US.  Cancara also enters into co-purchase arrangements with other conduits.  Cancara’s current program limit is EUR 16 billion.

    Moody's Investors Service is among the world's most respected, widely utilized sources for credit ratings, research and risk analysis. The firm publishes market-leading credit opinions, deal research and commentary, serving more than 9,000 customer accounts at some 2,400 institutions around the globe.  Moody's integrity and deep market expertise have earned it the trust of capital market participants worldwide.  Our ratings and analysis track debt covering more than 100 sovereign nations, 11,000 company issuers, 25,000 public finance issuers, and 70,000 structured finance obligations. Moody's maintains offices in most of the world's major financial centers and employs approximately 2,400 people worldwide, including more than 1,000 analysts.  Moody's Investors Service is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE:
MCO). The corporation had reported revenue of $1.7 billion in 2005. Additional information about the company is available at www.moodys.com.

   As the world’s largest professional services firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP offices are located in over a hundred countries. In the past year, the PwC’s and the Structured Finance Group (SFG) have been involved in securitization transactions totaling billions of dollars. Structured Finance Group professionals combine a high-level of technical expertise to provide a wide range of securitization services, such as: deal structuring, asset valuation, due diligence, modeling, operational consulting, tax and accounting analysis, tax reporting, and technology development, implementation and maintenance.  Because of the Structured Finance Group’s commitment to financial development, innovative marketing and strategic planning, we continue to meet and exceed our client’s goals and deliverables. For information on SFG’s services or a demonstration of our technology solutions, please contact one of the following PwC representatives:
David M. Lukach at 646.471.3150 david.m.lukach@us.pwc.com
Frank Serravalli at 646.471.2669 frank.serravalli@us.pwc.com
Debra Rappoport at 646.471.2876 debra.rappoport@us.pwc.com

 

BREAK SPONSORS

    Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP has over 1,400 attorneys, with thirteen principal offices and three  representative offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.  The firm regularly represents issuers, underwriters and placement agents, investors, trustees, servicers, credit and liquidity enhancers, multi-seller conduits  and rating agencies, and is continuously active in securitization in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.  In addition to having the largest commercial paper practice in the world, Mayer Brown has experience in almost all other types of assets, including many exotic asset-classes, such as operating leases, future export receivables and charged-off consumer loans, and various types of CLOs and CBOs.  In 1999, Mayer Brown developed Securitization.Net^TM, a collaborative website for the structured finance community that is free to users and contributors worldwide.  It’s packed with news, articles, deal information, publications, conference descriptions, and substantive information on structured finance from rating agencies, accounting firms, banks, publishers, law firms and other Contributors from around the world.  Access, contributions to, and  links with Securitization.Net^TM are free to all issuers, investors, lenders, servicers and others in the structured finance community.  Securitization.Net^TM is sponsored and maintained by Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP.

 

EXHIBITOR SPONSOR

 

   1010data offers a revolutionary, high-speed, web-based service for analyzing, managing and distributing unlimited quantities of data. Our products feature unparalleled speed and flexibility and allow non-technical users to do everything from loading data to performing sophisticated analyses and producing finished reports and charts.

    Pro-Teck provides the mortgage capital markets with a full suite of configurable collateral due diligence services, ranging from AVM and fraud review to BPO, appraisal, tie-out and vetting.  Compressed time frames and narrow margins typify today’s securitizations; Pro-Teck’s configured approach, quality focus and collateral expertise provides a total service offering that increases overall pool performance.  

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