Covenant Trends – 10/11/2021
Percentage of Loans with F&C Tranche / Pro Forma EBITDA >0.9x (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller
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PDI Picks – 10/11/2021
Is distressed debt an old-fashioned notion? Traditional cycles may be a thing of the past – what matters is having the skills to take advantage of challenging situations. To say there’s no such thing as distressed debt any more perhaps suggests the kind of over-optimism associated with the claim that first emerged in the dotcom…
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Debtwire Middle-Market – 10/11/2021
Source: Cliffwater Direct Lending Index and BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the *Cliffwater Direct Lending Index (CDLI) current yield, which is based on the investment income of the underlying assets held by public and private BDCs. BDCs invest in middle market companies, and the Index…
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Loan Stats at a Glance – 10/11/2021
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Debtwire Middle-Market – 10/4/2021
Quarterly buyout volume reaches new heights in 3Q21 Source: Dealogic, Debtwire Par Institutional loans supporting buyout activity jumped to USD 21.1bn in September, bringing the quarterly figure to USD 52.4bn and surpassing the previous quarterly high of USD 48.9bn set in 2Q21. High yield bonds similarly saw buyout issuance spike in 3Q21, to USD 13.9bn,…
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Private Debt Intelligence – 10/4/2021
Dry Powder for Direct Lending Senior Debt at Record High Almost 60% of dry powder in direct lending is allocated to senior debt, with $103.9bn available for investment worldwide as of October 2021. The majority of this, $73.8bn, is with North America-based fund managers, with European fund managers coming in second with $22.5bn…. Subscribe to
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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis – 10/4/2021
1-3Q21 leveraged issuance sets new record at US$1.3Tr U.S. bank arrangers completed over US$250bn of leveraged loan issuance during the quarter, the strongest 3Q results since 2017 as liquidity and a resurgence of sponsor activity buoyed the market. At almost US$935bn, leveraged loan issuance for the first nine months of the year was just shy…
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The Pulse of Private Equity – 10/4/2021
PE’s growth compared to the public market Download PitchBook’s Report here. As an asset class, private equity’s growth has exploded over the past two decades. According to PitchBook’s latest Quantitative Perspectives Report, there are now twice as many PE-backed companies as there are public companies in the United States. Those numbers, aided by figures from the…
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PE and Supply Chains
Even in normal times, private equity sponsors pay ruthless attention to cost structures of portfolio companies. Covid has raised to new levels the challenges buyers have managing supply chains. “Eighteen months ago, Covid was a top-line issue; now it’s mostly a cost issue,” one partner told us. “We can pass price increases along, but with […]