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The Pulse of Private Equity – 4/1/2024

Private debt fund performance Download PitchBook’s Report here. Drilling down to the major substrategies, mezzanine funds kicked into high gear with a one-year horizon return of 22.8% as of Q3 2023. This compares to a one-year return of 4.7% for distressed/special situation funds…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...

Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 4/1/2024

Daily Analytic: Survey – Unitranche spreads shift lower Stiffer competition from the syndicated market has put pressure on direct lenders to tighten spreads on unitranche loans. According to LSEG LPC’s 2Q24 Middle Market Outlook Survey, 36% of direct lender respondents said their minimum threshold for unitranche spreads was in the 500-525bp range…. Subscribe to Read

Covenant Trends - 4/1/2024

Distribution of Synergies & Cost Savings EBITDA Addback Time Horizons (for Actions Resulting in Addbacks) (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com

Debtwire Middle-Market – 4/1/2024

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The blue line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 10.4% as of 28 March, down from the highest level in last 12 months of 12.1% in May 2023) that tracks the overall performance…

The New Order: Leverage Finance in an Asset Management World (Second of a Series)

The battle for buyouts is over: privates have won. Private credit fundraising has changed that narrative for good. Increasingly, leading private credit managers with capacity to speak comfortably for $1 billion or more are committing to financings with the ability to hold the entire loan among controlled funds… (Any “forward-looking” information may include, among other […]

Private Debt Intelligence - 3/25/2024

North American-based private debt AUM hits $1tn Private debt in North America has overtaken real estate in 2023 to become the second largest private capital asset class by assets under management (AUM), topping $1tn for the first time. AUM grew 18% in H1 2023, faster than private equity (13%), and private capital markets overall (11%)….

Debtwire Middle-Market – 3/25/2024

Healthcare is generating significant numbers of restructuring cases A guide to distress in healthcare The US healthcare sector has been beset by malaise in recent months, with the number of restructuring cases lurching to 49 in 2023 from 23 the previous year. Prospects show little sign of improving in 2024, with a dozen Chapter 11 cases…