“Capital is destiny.” We’re not sure this pronouncement will make it into the next edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, but the notion sprung to mind as we recently addressed a top business school class. Topic? How private equity sponsors finance leveraged buyouts. To show students how debt markets work, we discussed how issuers benefit when…
This week we chat with Mary Katherine DuBose, Co-Head of Asset Backed Finance and Securitization, Asset-Backed Finance, Wells Fargo Securities. ABF provides direct structured lending as well as the underwriting and distribution of asset-backed securities for over 500 clients and a risk portfolio of approximately $120BN across consumer, commercial, residential and corporate debt sectors. The…
Driven by China and commodities worries in August 2015, loan prices dipped in unison, then recovered, though cov-lite lags.
Digesting Elephants: What Happens Next with SBOs? View PitchBook’s 2017 PE & VC Exits Here Secondary buyouts have been artificially propped up by the inflated volume of crisis-era investments for the past few years. “Like a snake digesting an elephant’s worth of assets,” as Bain & Co. phrased it, PE deals made from 2005 to 2008…
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North America Real Estate Debt Closed-end private debt fund servicing the real estate market have grown in prominence in recent years, as investors seek to participate in a sector which offers an attractive risk/return profile, and strong overall performance. The bulk of this… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...
Noble Group clings on A year ago this week, the credit markets were digesting the shock of a ‘leave’ vote in the Brexit referendum. What followed was a period of extreme volatility and it seemed that 2017 was set for more of the same…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...
Middle market sponsor-backed issuers are seeing fewer repricings than large corp. issuers Private equity shops have taken advantage of strong liquidity in the loan market to refinance/reprice many of their portfolio companies into longer dated maturities, looser structures and cheaper pricing…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...