Trading Assoc. ) - The Handbook of Loan Syndications and Trading

THE HANDBOOK OF LOAN SYNDICATIONS AND TRADING

Editors:

ALLISON TAYLOR

ALICIA SANSONE

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Scott Page, Payson Swaffield, Allison A. Taylor, Ruth Yang, Peter C. Vaky, Steve Miller, Scott D. Krase, Elliot Ganz

Tiziana M. Bason, Michael P. Kaplan, and Bradley Y. Smith

Steve Miller, Marc Hanrahan, David Teh, Dawn Pasquin

Barry Bobrow, Mercedes Tech, Linda Redding, Alex Spiro, Elliot Ganz

Richard Wight, Warren Cooke, Richard Gray

Meredith Coffey, Robert Milam, Laura Torrado, Michele B. Piorkowski

Theodore Basta, Tom Price, Jean Cho

Sean Kelley, Meredith Coffey, William Deitrick, Steve Bavaria, Neal Schweitzer, David Keisman, Steve Miller, Sam DeRosa-Farag

Peter T. Santry, Joe Lamport, David Isenberg, Gregory A. Bray, William R. Wagner

Philip Nisbet, Richard W. Stewart, Sam DeRosa-Farag, Mark Herzinger

The Bond Market Association

Michael P. McAdams, Jack Yang, Howard Tiffen, Geoffrey A. Gold

Bala Ayyar, Wayne Lee, Seth Grosshandler, Kate A. Sawyer, John C. Pattison

Meredith Coffey, Clare Dawson, Philip Cracknell, Suraj Bhatia, Jennifer Ashe, Mike Kerrigan, Steve Curtis, Ian Sandler

Jennifer Ashe
Vice President and Head of Research
The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. Ltd., New York Branch

Bala Ayyar
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Tiziana M. Bason
Davis, Polk & Wardwell

Theodore Basta
Vice President, Market Data
The Loan Syndications and Trading Association

Steven Bavaria
Vice President and Head Syndicated Loan & Recovery Ratings
Standard & Poors

Suraj Bhatia
Senior Managing Director
The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. Ltd., New York Branch

Barry Bobrow
Managing Director
Loan Syndications Wachovia

The Bond Market Association

Gregory A. Bray, Esq.
Partner
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Jean Cho
Analyst
Markit Group

Meredith Coffey
Senior Vice President
Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation

Warren Cooke
Partner
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Philip Cracknell
Standard Chartered

Steve Curtis
Partner
Clifford Chance LLP

Clare Dawson
Loan Market Association

William Deitrick
Vice President
Citigroup Global Market Inc.

Sam DeRosa-Farag
Managing Director, Global
Leveraged Finance Strategy
Credit Suisse

Elliot Ganz
General Counsel
The Loan Syndications and Trading Association

Geoffrey A. Gold
Partner
Strategic Value Partners

Richard Gray
Partner
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Seth Grosshandler
Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP

Marc Hanrahan
Partner
Latham & Watkins LLP

Mark Herzinger
Director
Barclays Capital

David Isenberg, Esq.
Of Counsel
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Michael P. Kaplan
Davis, Polk & Wardwell

David Keisman
Moodys Investors Services

Sean Kelley
Tall Tree Investment Management, LLC

Mike Kerrigan
Partner
Hunton & Williams LLP