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Business of Private Credit: Safety, Not Size
Even the best credit managers have loans that go bad. What separates them from everyone else is the history and experience they bring to working these problems out.
Lead Left Interview - Neil Cummings, G. Thomas Stromberg and Richard Levin
This week we chat with Neil Cummings, G. Thomas Stromberg and Richard Levin, partners at Jenner Block, an international firm…
Down Time
Leverage for all US corporate issuers is headed to levels where previous default cycles began. Source: The Daily Shot, Bloomberg…
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 12/14/2015
The secondary market continues to come under pressure, with increased differentiation between the so called haves and have-nots. Flow names…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 12/14/2015
Caution Growing Among PE Investors Assessing investor sentiment is always somewhat of a tricky prospect, but one useful heuristic is…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 12/14/2015
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Markit Recap – 12/7/2015
The commodities rout continued in earnest this week as oil prices hit recent multi year lows, while industrial metal prices…
Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 12/7/2015
The average purchase price for large corporate LBO deals is still well below the large-scale deals struck during the buyout…
The Art of the Club Deal
When we first began distributing middle market loans (in the waning days of the Reagan Administration), the concept was novel.…
Lead Left Interview - Josh Lerner (Part 2)
This week we continue our conversation with Josh Lerner, the Chair of the Entrepreneurship Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff…
Flex Time
Since August’s market volatility, more post-launch pricing changes have been investor-friendly.
The Pulse of Private Equity - 12/7/2015
Global PE Cash Flows for 2015 Already Strong In the first quarter of 2015, private equity firms worldwide have already…









Why Mezzanine Matters
It’s popular sport at loan conferences to kick the mezzanine asset class. After the credit crisis, when some investors in…