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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.
Private Debt Intelligence - 12/7/2020
The Rise of ESG in Private Debt [wpdm_package id=’40557′] Although private equity funds continue to dominate the ESG opportunity set,…
There may be trouble ahead
Investors have taken comfort from private debt’s response to the crisis, but economic turmoil still lies in wait. There are…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 12/7/2020
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
SPACs are Back! What are They?
Besides COVID, the elections, and what the fifth instalment of the Scream series will be called (it’s not Scream 5),…
Institutional loan issuance slips in November, new money share increases
Source: Debtwire Par Institutional loan issuance dropped off in November, recording just USD 25.4bn this month, down 56% from the…
Pricing widens significantly for borrowing base E&P revolvers in 2020
Lending to the oil and gas upstream sector at US$17.3bn is down 78% so far this year from the total…
A comeback for first-timers?
Now that we’re in December, PitchBook’s annual PE Outlook is around the corner and we’re wading back into prediction mode…
Distribution of Synergies & Cost Savings EBITDA Addback Time Horizons (for Actions Resulting in Addbacks)
Contact: Steven Miller
Private Debt Intelligence - 11/30/2020
Investors Plans for Their Allocation to Private Debt by 2025 [wpdm_package id=’40357′] In August 2020, Preqin ran a survey among…
SPACtator Sport
The number of special purpose acquisition company filings have ramped up sharply.
Special Report: COVID-19 and M&A Activity
Beginning in July 2020 The Lead Left published a series of articles on COVID-impacted deal flow. This report consolidates those articles.
Breaking the covenant
Two recent surveys have shed light on the issue of covenant breaches, and how managers are responding to them. With…








SPACs – A Primer (Part II)
Just before Thanksgiving a faithful reader alerted us to an article from Business Insider [link]. In it noted sommelier and…