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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home
Much attention has been paid to the suitability of Matt Damon in the lead role as the wily Odysseus in this summer’s Christopher Nolan blockbuster.
Rate Race
With the Fed more likely to push rates in September, Libor rose more quickly last month than comparable Treasuries. Sources:…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 8/1/2016
US MM Transaction Sizes Indicate Concentration in the Core In the first half of 2016, the median size of buyouts…
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 8/1/2016
Flex activity continued to favor issuers in July Market sentiment in July was more of the same in the leveraged…
Lead Left Interview - Paul Peterson
This week we chat with Paul Peterson, a managing director at Wind Point Partners. Wind Point Partners is a private…
Preqin Private Debt Intelligence - 8/1/2016
First-Time Private Debt Fundraising As the closed-end private debt industry grows in size and prominence, new fund managers continue to…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 8/1/2016
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Markit Recap – 7/25/2016
Back in July 2010, not long after the first Greek bailout, results of stress tests conducted by the Committee of…
Markets at the Midpoint (Last of a Series)
The setting was Arlington Park, a storied horse racing venue about a forty-five minute Uber ride northwest of Chicago. We…
Half Baked
Middle market sponsored volume for the first six months of 2016 was the lightest in seven years. Source: Thomson Reuters…
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 7/25/2016
The PE-backed LBO market continued to remain inflated and aggressive in 2Q16. The average purchase price multiple on large corporate…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 7/25/2016
PE Interest in US Lower Middle Market Slumps Temporarily After trending upward for over a year, private equity dealmaking in…








Summer Stock
Call it an ironic twist. An actor named David Harbour, portraying Achilles in Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” in Central Park…