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April 04, 2024

Secured Finance Network’s 40 under 40 2024

Please join us in congratulating our very own Asyera Theng on her well deserved 40 under 40 award from the Secured Finance Network. The award celebrates the achievements of young professionals in the secured finance industry.

Disclaimer: The Secured Finance Network (SFNet) is an association of asset-based lenders, factoring firms and other secured finance constituents and is networking and training resource, data provider, and advocate representing its members on critical public policy and legal issues that impact member businesses. Nominees for SFNet’s 40 Under 40 Awards 2024 must be employed by an SFNet member organization, must not have turned 40 before June 13, 2024, and be nominated by a direct supervisor or manager of the nominee. Letters of nomination are expected to include the nominee’s career achievements, leadership skills, community and/or industry activities, involvement in the SFNet secured finance community and a description of the nominee’s direct impact on Sound Point’s business.  Although Sound Point is a SFNet member organization (and pays annual dues to SFNet for such membership), no compensation was paid by Sound Point directly or indirectly to SFNet in connection with the receipt of the above referenced award. The receipt of this award is not indicative of future performance. 

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March 29, 2024

Commercial Mortgage Alert: Sound Point Adds Fundraising Staff

We’re excited about the growing team at Sound Point Capital Management as well as the opportunity set in CRE debt that our head of originations Matt Donnelly discusses in a recent Green Street's Commercial Mortgage Alert. As Matt notes, our CRE team focuses on middle market loan origination ($10-30m) with a focus on multi-family and industrial sectors.

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March 20, 2024

Top Women in Specialty Finance + Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In ABF Journal’s fourth annual top women in specialty finance feature, more than 50 of the leading women in the sector shared their career accomplishments, as well as their perspectives on career development, mentorship, team dynamics and more. Sound Point's Asyera Theng, Director of Capital Solutions, is featured in Top Women in Specialty Finance on page 55.

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March 12, 2024

Women In Secured Finance 2024 - Recognizing Excellence

Sound Point's Asyera Theng, Director of Capital Solutions, is recognized for her excellence in 'Women in Secured Finance' by The Secured Lender (see page 85).

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January 02, 2024

Sound Point Insights - Real Estate Debt: An Emerging Opportunity for Fresh Capital

While the news cycle is peppered with negative headlines like “Commercial-Property Distress in the US Rises to a 10-Year High”, it is important to look past the sensationalism. The real story influencing the headlines rests with one primary suspect: the U.S. office sector that is currently seeing historically elevated delinquency rates which continue to trend upwards. Delinquencies for historically safer collateral types, primarily multifamily and industrial, lie far below the levels being seen in the office market. 

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December 14, 2023

Sound Point Capital Partners With iCapital Marketplace

Sound Point Capital Management, LP announced today they have joined iCapital’s Marketplace, a platform offering a robust suite of alternative investment solutions to financial advisors and their clients.

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October 01, 2023

Sound Point Insights - Private Equity vs. CLO Equity Returns

Private Equity and CLO equity are linked in a common ecosystem, with different structural risks, but similar historical returns. Today, private equity expected returns are lower than realized returns in the post-GFC era, whereas expected returns for CLO equity remain in the midteens. Many investors are heavily (or fully) allocated to Private Equity. Most have no allocation to CLO equity. As investors search for high return alternatives, we suggest a serious look at CLO equity.

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September 12, 2023

Sound Point Capital Provides Financing to Support the Acquisition of Barcoding

Sound Point Capital Management, LP is pleased to announce that it acted as Administrative Agent on a first lien senior secured credit facility to Barcoding, Inc. The financing was used to support the acquisition of the Company by Graham Partners, Inc.

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July 03, 2023

Sound Point acquires Assured Investment Management ("AIM"), taking over management of $15.2 billion in AUM and welcoming 29 employees from AIM

May 18, 2023

Sound Point Names Gunther Stein Chief Investment Officer for U.S. Performing Credit and CLOs

Sound Point Capital Management, LP, a credit-oriented investment manager overseeing approximately $32 billion in total assets, is pleased to announce it has hired Gunther Stein to become Head and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of its U.S. Performing Credit and CLO platform.

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April 05, 2023

Sound Point Capital to Acquire Assured Investment Management, and Receive $1 Billion Investment Commitment From Assured Guaranty

Sound Point Capital Management, LP, a credit-oriented investment manager overseeing approximately $32 billion in total assets, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Assured Investment Management LLC and certain of its related asset management entities (“Assured-IM”), which conducts the institutional asset management business of Assured Guaranty Ltd. (together with its affiliates, “Assured Guaranty”).

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March 07, 2023

Sound Point Capital Provides Financing to Support the Acquisition of Gannett Fleming

Sound Point Capital Management is pleased to announce that it acted as Administrative Agent on a first lien senior secured credit facility to Gannett Fleming (the “Company”), a leading engineering and infrastructure solutions provider. The financing was used to support the acquisition of the Company by OceanSound Partners.

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October 21, 2022

Sound Point Capital Provides Financing to Centric Brands

Sound Point Capital Management is pleased to announce that it provided an Accounts Receivable Facility for Centric Brands, a leading global lifestyle brand collective that designs, sources and markets branded products in the apparel, accessories, beauty and entertainment categories. The transaction refinances and upsizes a similar facility that was previously held by Sound Point.

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October 19, 2022

Sound Point Capital and LBC Credit Management Support the Acquisition of Unirac, Inc.

Sound Point Capital Management, LP and LBC Credit Management, L.P., two of the leading providers of financing solutions to middle market companies, provided a $180 million senior secured credit facility to Greenbelt Capital Partners to support the acquisition of Unirac, Inc.

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September 27, 2022

Sound Point Capital Management Hires Merrill Martin from CSAM for Independent Wealth Channels

Sound Point Capital Management, a leading credit-focused investment manager with more than $32 billion in assets, is pleased to announce it has hired Merrill Martin as its new Senior Director of Business Development for their Independent Wealth team. He will be focused on covering Key Accounts, Family Offices, and Registered Investment Advisors.

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August 23, 2022

Sound Point Capital Names New Chief Compliance Officer

Sound Point Capital Management, a leading credit-focused investment manager with more than $30 billion in assets, is pleased to announce that it has hired Andrea Sayago as its new Chief Compliance Officer and Associate General Counsel.

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July 13, 2022

Sound Point Capital Provides Financing to Dura Automotive

Sound Point Capital Management is pleased to announce that it provided an Accounts Receivable Facility for Dura Automotive, a global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered automotive systems and portfolio company of MiddleGround Capital.

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May 11, 2022

At the 2022 Creditflux CLO Awards, Sound Point Capital Management collected the award for best CLO fund. The Creditflux CLO Manager Awards is the CLO industry’s premier awards ceremony, celebrating the best in class across a broad spectrum of fund activity for both CLOs and other structured credit funds

The Creditflux Best CLO Fund Award for 2022 was awarded by Creditflux, a news publication service covering global credit investing and trading with news, comment, analysis and data on the credit markets. For the 2022 award selection, Creditflux analyzed the data of open-ended CLO funds launched prior to 2021, and which are listed on the Creditflux hedge fund website. Creditflux ranked the funds through a data-driven process, blending total returns and sharpe ratio through 2021. Twenty-nine funds were considered for the 2022 award. The receipt of this award is not indicative of future performance.

April 18, 2022

Sound Point Acquisition Corp I, Ltd Announces the Separate Trading of Its Class A Ordinary Shares and Warrants Commencing April 22, 2022

Sound Point Acquisition Corp I, Ltd (the “Company”) today announced that commencing April 22, 2022, holders of the units sold in the Company’s initial public offering may elect to separately trade the Class A ordinary shares and warrants included in the units.

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March 01, 2022

Sound Point Acquisition Corp I, Ltd Announces Pricing of Upsized $225 Million Initial Public Offering

Sound Point Acquisition Corp I, Ltd (the “Company”) announced today the pricing of its upsized initial public offering of 22,500,000 units at $10.00 per unit. The units will be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq”) in the United States and trade under the ticker symbol “SPCMU” beginning on March 2, 2022.

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January 07, 2022

Sound Point Capital Provides Financing to Perry Ellis International

Sound Point Capital Management (“Sound Point”) is pleased to announce that it closed on a senior secured term loan financing to a subsidiary of Perry Ellis International (“Perry Ellis” or the “Company”), an owner of well-established retail brands.

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December 09, 2021

QED Investors and Sound Point Capital Management, LP Announce Strategic Partnership

QED Investors (QED), a global leading boutique venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage, disruptive financial services companies, announced today that it is forming a partnership with Sound Point Capital Management, LP (Sound Point), a leading alternative asset manager with expertise in the credit space, to create a new asset management business focused on providing debt and receivables financing solutions to early stage FinTech companies.

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November 18, 2021

Sound Point Capital Provides Financing to Support the Acquisition of Lindsay Precast

Sound Point Capital Management (“Sound Point”) is pleased to announce that it acted as Administrative Agent on a first lien senior secured credit facility to Lindsay Precast (“Lindsay” or the “Company”), a premier North American concrete manufacturer specializing in precast concrete products.

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July 20, 2021

Sound Point Capital Provides Financing to Support KPM Analytics

Sound Point Capital Management, LP (“Sound Point”) is pleased to announce that it acted as Administrative Agent on a $43.5 million multicurrency first lien cross-border credit facility to KPM Analytics (“KPM”), a global quality assurance / quality control (QA/QC) analytical testing and instrumentation business owned by Union Park Capital.

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June 08, 2021

Sound Point Capital Acquires CVC Credit’s U.S. Direct Lending Unit

Sound Point Capital Management, LP, a credit-oriented investment management firm overseeing approximately $25 billion in total assets, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the U.S. direct lending platform of CVC Credit.

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June 07, 2021

Sound Point to Buy CVC Lending Unit

Alternative asset manager Sound Point Capital Management LP has struck a deal to buy the U.S. direct lending arm of CVC Capital Partners, according to a person familiar with the matter. The expected purchase would triple the size of Sound Point's direct-lending assets to about $1.5 billion, helping the New York based firm to penetrate the burgeoning market for private credit.

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April 10, 2021

Sound Point Capital Management, LP becomes a signatory of the UN-supported Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI).

February 24, 2021

Aflac Global Investments Announces Strategic Partnership with Sound Point Capital Management, LP

Aflac to Fund Initial $1.5 Billion Real Estate Loan Portfolio, Includes $500 Million Aimed at Accelerating Development for Communities in Need

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December 16, 2020

Distressed Investing’s ‘Wall of Money’ Eyes 2021 Opportunities

Restructuring specialists say they’re not done fixing the balance sheets of companies hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, even after a wave of large corporate bankruptcies in 2020.

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December 11, 2020

Sound Point Dives Into Deep Distress for Attractive Returns: Q&A

Stephen Ketchum, founder and chief investment officer of Sound Point Capital Management, says credits on the verge of filing for bankruptcy are generating attractive returns.

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October 16, 2020

US CLOs: Look to the Wings of the Capital Structure and New CLOs with Restructuring-Friendly Language

New issue US CLO equity is an attractive proposition as liability spreads have tightened quickly, says Ujjaval Desai, with triple As moving from 165bp over Libor to 130bp in a few weeks.

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October 12, 2020

Centric Brands Emerges from Chapter 11 with Strengthened Balance Sheet

Centric Brands LLC (the “Company”), a leading lifestyle brands collective, announced today that it has completed its financial restructuring and emerged from voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings, implementing the Company’s Plan of Reorganization (the “Plan”) that was approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

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April 02, 2020

You Wait 12 Years for Loan Dislocation and $1 Trillion Comes Along All at Once

The waiting is over - distressed debt managers have the best entry point in about a dozen years as the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index plunged to 80 in just two weeks.

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February 03, 2020

Francis McCullough Joins Sound Point Capital as Global Head of CLO Capital Markets and Structuring

Sound Point Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm with approximately $21 billion of assets under management, is pleased to announce Francis McCullough has joined as Global Head of CLO Capital Markets and Structuring.

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January 06, 2020

Sound Point Capital Launches Its First Dedicated Specialty Lending Fund

Sound Point Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm with approximately $21 billion of assets under management, is pleased to announce the successful closing of its first fund dedicated to directly originated corporate loans.

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July 05, 2019

Why Parts of Wall Street are Fretting Over 'Toxic' Loans

Steve Ketchum is not happy. The hedge fund manager is a big investor in so-called leveraged loans, a corner of the debt market that involves lending to riskier, lower-rated companies.

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September 24, 2018

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Sound Point Capital Management Form Partnership in CLO Equity

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, CPPIB Credit Investments Inc. (CPPIB Credit), is broadening its portfolio through new investments in equity tranches of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) alongside experienced CLO asset managers.

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July 13, 2018

This Floating Rate Fund Rises to the Top

It's like the law of gravity: Whenever interest rates go up, as they have lately, bonds invariably go down, as investors sell existing bonds with yields lower than newly issued ones with higher rates. But not every fixed-income investment behaves this way. 

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March 28, 2024

Sound Point's Gunther Stein Sits Down with Bloomberg News

Sound Point's Gunther Stein sits down with Bloomberg News’ Carmen Arroyo Nieto and James Crombie, and Bloomberg Intelligence’s Robert Schiffman in the latest Credit Edge podcast to discusses CLO issuance, pricing and leveraged loan liquidity. 

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March 27, 2024

Women @ RopesTalk: Conversation with Morgan (Dean) O'Neill, Sound Point Capital Management

On this episode of Women @ RopesTalk hosted by health care partner Christine Moundas, capital solutions & private credit partner Jennifer Harris interviews Morgan (Dean) O’Neill, a distinguished portfolio manager and managing director at Sound Point Capital Management. Morgan provides a glimpse into her remarkable journey, tracing her career trajectory from an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch to her current role overseeing the capital solutions group at Sound Point. The discussion delves into the challenges she has faced, such as unexpected shifts in leadership, and how those moments became pivotal opportunities for personal and professional growth. Throughout the conversation, Morgan emphasizes the importance of adaptability and networking, sharing practical advice on building and maintaining relationships in the finance industry.

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May 15, 2023

The Reorg Primary View: Private Credit Beyond Direct Lending

Morgan Dean, a portfolio manager on Sound Point Capital Management’s Capital Solutions team, discusses areas of opportunity within asset-backed lending, and dry powder in the market vs. deal quality in private credit with Reorg’s James Holloway.

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May 12, 2023

The Last Tranche with Sound Point's Desai: the wrong CLO equity investment strategies will see negative returns

In this episode of The Last Tranche, Ujjaval Desai, head of structured products investing at Sound Point Capital Management, shares his ideas about the investment opportunity across the CLO equity universe.

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February 11, 2021

The Last Tranche with Sound Point's Ketchum: CLOs have fortress-like capital structures

In this episode of The Last Tranche, Creditflux's Hugh Minch and Sound Point Capital Management's Stephen Ketchum discuss the macro-picture for the US credit markets and who should be on the lookout for inflation.
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Effective Date: July 1, 2023


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Effective as of November 1, 2013

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Any and all investors currently holding interests in investment vehicles managed by Sound Point Capital will be provided login credentials by Sound Point Capital to access the Restricted Areas of the Site. If you are a current investor and have not received such login credentials, please contact Sound Point Capital to obtain access to the Restricted Areas of the Site.

In addition to investors, certain Visitors may request access to the Restricted Areas of the Site by completing and submitting to Sound Point Capital a prospective user questionnaire [insert hyperlink here to questionnaire]. When you submit the questionnaire, you will be required to provide Sound Point Capital with the following information: your name, complete address information, e-mail address, telephone numbers and fax number.

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PERFORMANCE DATA

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COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Sound Point does not permit infringing copyright activities and other infringement of intellectual property rights on its site, and Sound Point will remove Content if properly notified that such Content infringes on another’s intellectual property rights. If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any Content made available on the Site infringes upon or otherwise conflicts with your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing our copyright agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) for further detail): (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site; (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and an electronic mail address; (e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Please contact Sound Point’s designated Copyright Agent, Sarah Seelaus (sseelaus@soundpointcap.com) to send notifications of claimed infringement. For clarity, only DMCA notices should go to the Copyright Agent; any other feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications should be directed to Sound Point’s customer service through the Contact area of the Site. You hereby acknowledge and agree that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements listed above, your DMCA notice may not be valid.

PRIVACY

To the extent that Sound Point collects any information from Users of the Site, the collection and use of such information is governed by Sound Point’s Site Privacy Policy [insert hyperlink], which you should read before providing any such information to Sound Point.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

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REFERENCES TO PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER COMPANIES

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LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The Site contains links to websites operated by parties other than Sound Point, which Sound Point may not have been screened or reviewed and which may contain inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive material, products or services. Sound Point does not control such websites, and Sound Point assumes no responsibility or liability regarding the accuracy, reliability, legality or decency of such third-party websites, content, products or services. Such hyperlinks are provided for your convenience only. Sound Point’s inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

MODIFICATION AND MONITORING OF SITE

You will be required to accept these Terms of Use each time that you use the Site. Sound Point may, at its discretion, change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time without notice to you. We suggest that you check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. These Terms of Use can be accessed from the link at the bottom of each page. If you use the Site after we post changes to these Terms of Use, you accept the changed Terms of Use. Sound Point expressly reserves the right to monitor any and all use of the Site.

Sound Point has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor and record activity on the Site and respond as it deems appropriate. We may monitor and record activity on the Site for any reason or for no reason. Sound Point may investigate any complaint or reported violation of our policies. We may report any activity that we suspect may violate any law or regulation to regulators, law enforcement officials or other persons or entities that we deem appropriate.

TERMINATION AND CANCELLATION

Sound Point may modify or terminate the Site and terminate your access to the Site, without notice at any time and for any reason.

INDEMNITY

You agree, at your own expense, to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Sound Point, its parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, and their officers, partners, managers, members, employees, agents, distributors, service providers, contractors and licensees, from and against any judgments, losses, deficiencies, damages, liabilities, costs, claims, demands, suits, and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred in, arising out of or in any way related to your breach of these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, your use of the Site or any product or service related thereto, or any of your other acts or omissions.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

Unless otherwise specified, Sound Point controls and operates the Site from its offices within the United States of America.

Sound Point does not claim that materials in the Site are appropriate or available for use in locations other than those within the United States. If you choose to access the Site from other locations, you do so on your own initiative, and you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.

Software from the Site and any data included on the Site is further subject to United States export controls. Software and data from the Site may not be downloaded or otherwise exported or reexported outside the United States. By downloading or using such software or data, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country or territory outside of the United States.

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its choice of law provisions. You hereby consent to the exclusive and personal jurisdiction and venue of the State and Federal courts in New York, New York, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any and all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use, the use of the Site or any product or service related thereto. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph.

GENERAL

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship exists between you and Sound Point as a result of these Terms of Use or use of the Site.

Sound Point’s performance of these Terms of Use is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing in these Terms of Use is in derogation of Sound Point’s right to comply with law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by Sound Point with respect to such use.

If any part of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of these Terms of Use shall continue in effect.

By reviewing or using the information on the Site after accessing the Site, you represent and warrant that (a) you have the authority to enter into these Terms of Use and create a binding contractual obligation, (b) you understand and intend these Terms of Use to be the legal equivalent of a signed, written contract equally binding, and (c) you will use the information on the Site in a manner consistent with applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with these Terms of Use, as Sound Point may amend them online or otherwise from time to time. A printed version of these Terms of Use and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based on or relating to these Terms of Use to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Sound Point with respect to the Site and they supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between you and Sound Point with respect to the Site. No delay or failure on the part of either party in exercising any right or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof or of any other right or remedy. No waiver whatsoever shall be valid unless in writing, signed by the party to be charged, and then only to the extent therein set forth.

You shall not assign or otherwise transfer these Terms of Use, in whole or in part, or delegate or subcontract any of its rights or obligations hereunder, without Sound Point’s prior written consent. Any attempted transfer or delegation by you without Sound Point’s consent will be void. These Terms of Use will bind and inure to the benefit of each party’s successors and permitted assigns.

You agree to be bound by any agreement or consent you transmit to or through the Site via any media or electronic device, including internet, telephone and wireless devices.

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