Akin is an elite global law firm with more than 900 lawyers, dedicated to serving their clients and communities. With offices worldwide, we are renowned for our numerous market-leading practices.
With over 40 years of experience representing private equity and investment management clients, Akin has helped industry pioneers form funds and deploy capital globally since the earliest days of the modern funds industry.
Akin operates across the alternative investment management industry, offering a full spectrum of services. We advise on fund formation, tax structuring, private equity investments, secondary transactions, and regulatory matters.
BofA Securities offers a premier futures, options, and OTC derivatives platform. We are an industry leader in direct exchange memberships and also provide access via third-party relationships. Our 24-hour execution desk in Chicago provides clients a single access point for all global markets. Regional desks in New York, Montreal, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Mumbai enhance our client service capabilities. Our electronic trading suite syncs with a wide variety of client front ends offering direct access to 38 exchanges, along with advanced trading algorithms. We have been at the forefront of the new era of OTC derivatives clearing. Our OTC service offering includes derivatives intermediation, cross margining, world class reporting and reconciliation, leading collateral optimization technology, and allocation processing across multiple accounts on a single multi-market and multi-asset platform.
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
Citi’s integrated business supports clients from pre-trade to execution and post-trade. Citi Equities provides insights, a broad range of products and services and round-the-clock market access for equities and equity-linked instruments, including tailored solutions to accommodate more complex trading strategies. Citi Prime Finance offers prime brokerage, securities lending and financing, agency securities lending, and global capital introductions to help hedge funds manage risk, improve efficiency and achieve their long-term business objectives. Citi Futures, Clearing and Collateral Management delivers futures execution, OTC derivatives clearing, derivatives intermediation and collateral management services to support operational, asset optimization and liquidity needs.
Industry recognition includes: https://careers.citigroup.com/working-at-citi/awards-recognition.html https://www.citigroup.com/citi/news/2021/211123a.htm
Derivatives House and Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year from IFR (2020).
HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide.
Global Banking and Markets has offices in more than 60 countries and territories. Managed as a global business, we offer clients geographic reach and deep local knowledge.
Our clients are served by teams that bring together relationship managers and product specialists to develop financial solutions that meet individual client needs.
Our Client-focused business lines deliver a full range of banking capabilities:
- Investment banking and financing solutions, including corporate banking, investment banking, and leveraged acquisition finance.
- Global transaction banking services, including trade services, global liquidity and cash management, and securities services.
- One of the largest markets businesses of its kind, with 24-hour coverage and knowledge of local markets and providing services in credit and rates, foreign exchange and money markets.
- Global asset management solutions for institutions, financial intermediaries and private investors worldwide.
- A broad range of research services including macro, sector and company coverage complemented by trading ideas and strategies.
Learn more at https://www.gbm.hsbc.com/
Leading organizations turn to global law firm McDermott Will & Schulte for a better way to address legal challenges, connect with those at the forefront, and drive stronger outcomes. Working across more than 20 offices globally, our 1,750+ lawyers act on data-driven insights, deep relationships, and unmatched industry experience to deliver on our commitment of Always Better.
Platinum Sponsor
PwC’s alternative asset management practice helps create the edge you need. We bring a broader, deeper spectrum of skills across all segments of the alternatives industry, delivered with energy, passion, teamwork and the proven ability to develop customized solutions for you. As a global asset management leader, PwC is unsurpassed in its depth of knowledge and experience to the alternative asset management industry. Through our global network of firms, with more than 223,000 people in 157 countries, we provide quality assurance, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most successful companies.
Gold Sponsors
Abacus Group is a New York–based global managed services provider (MSP) delivering secure, intelligent technology and cybersecurity solutions to the world’s most regulated institutions. With deep domain expertise across both the financial services and healthcare industries, Abacus provides innovative and compliant managed services designed to meet the unique demands of highly regulated environments. Our white-glove client experience, built on responsiveness, reliability, and trust, ensures organizations can operate with confidence, knowing their technology is secure, scalable, and aligned to industry standards.
Atlas Technica is a leading Managed Services Provider and strategic partner serving the technological needs of the alternative investment industry. Founded in 2016 to provide the best customer service experience possible for their clients, and to use best-in-class public cloud technology to do so. There's a clear need among hedge funds and other alternative investment firms for an IT provider that will put service first. Our mission is to shoulder the burden of IT management, user support, and cybersecurity compliance so you don't have to. Headquartered in NYC, Atlas Technica has additional offices in London, Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale.
BNY is a global financial services company that helps make money work for the world — managing it, moving it and keeping it safe. For more than 240 years BNY has partnered alongside clients, putting its expertise and platforms to work to help them achieve their ambitions. Today BNY helps over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly all the top 100 banks globally access the money they need. BNY supports governments in funding local projects and works with over 90% of the top 100 pension plans to safeguard investments for millions of individuals, and so much more. As of June 30, 2025, BNY oversees $55.8 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $2.1 trillion in assets under management.
BNY is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Headquartered in New York City, BNY has been named among Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators. Additional information is available on www.bny.com. Follow on LinkedIn or visit the BNY Newsroom for the latest company news.
ECI is the leading provider of cloud services, cybersecurity, and data and AI for alternative investment services organizations across the globe. With its unmatched platform of solutions, ECI provides assured business acceleration through technology, partnering with clients to drive innovation. More than 1,000 customers worldwide with over $3 trillion of assets under management put their trust in ECI.
Indus Valley Partners (IVP) is a leading global provider of enterprise-wide technology solutions, consulting, and digital-first managed services to 220+ top fund managers on the buy side. Founded in 2000, IVP has been driving Finance Forward for over two decades, empowering firms to evolve, transform, and scale. With a team of more than 1,100+ professionals across five time zones and approximately $5.5 trillion of global AUM managed using its technology, IVP enables hedge funds, asset managers, private funds, and others to unlock the value embedded in portfolio, counterparty, and market data. As a trusted thinking partner, IVP helps clients rethink operations, develop innovative platforms, and push the boundaries of what's possible in finance.
With more than 100 of our 350 attorneys dedicated to serving fund and investor clients, our Investment Management Group is a leader in the United States, distinguished for our client service. Our global clients include investment funds and advisers, emerging managers, some of the largest and best known asset managers with AUM in the tens of billions and a range of structures and strategies.
Our core services include: -Fund Formation and Structuring -Family Office -Regulatory and Compliance -Broker-Dealer -Derivatives and Structured Products -Private Equity, M&A, Debt Financing -Securities and Capital Markets Litigation -Tax, T&E, ERISA, Employment, IP, Insurance
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.