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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.
Percentage of Loans with F&C Tranche / Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA >0.9x
Contact: Steven Miller
LPs going on the defensive
Senior debt continues to be popular even as many investors have fleshed out their private credit exposure via their handful…
Uni Cycle
Single-tranche senior debt financing volume and deal size rose sharply last quarter as direct lenders found traction with one-stop solutions.
Private Debt Intelligence - 7/23/2018
Distressed Debt Sees Strong Performance [wpdm_package id=’19345′] Distressed debt has seen strong success, particularly in Q2 2018: the strategy led…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 7/23/2018
Contact: Marina Lukatsky marina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
State of the Capital Markets – Second Quarter 2018 Review and Third Quarter 2018 Outlook
Review of Current Market Conditions/ Analysis of Capital Markets Metrics/ Review of Credit Quality/ Outlook for Third Quarter 2018
Half-Time Report (Last of a Series)
Every now and then stuff happens in leveraged lending that reassures us things we’ve learned about the market are actually…
Lead Left Interview – Jessica Reiss and Kerry Kantin (Part 2)
This week we continue our conversation with Jessica Reiss, the head of leveraged loan research at Covenant Review. Also joining…
Private Debt Intelligence - 7/16/2018
Investors Take Notice of Distressed Debt [wpdm_package id=’19272′] Preqin currently tracks more than 3,300 private debt investors globally. The majority…
Markit Recap – 7/16/2018
The news wires are full of headlines around Trump, trade wars and Brexit. A mercantilist USA and a UK government…
US-based managers dominate fundraising
Many of the behemoth alternative asset managers are based in America and have raised some of the largest funds this…
Is the fundraising boom over?
Download PitchBook’s 2Q 2018 US PE Breakdown report here. It isn’t news that US private equity fundraising has been on…
No Floors
With Libor higher than the historic 1% leveraged loan floor, the rationale for that rate subsidy is going away.









Terms of Endearment
Despite continued strong deal flow this month, conditions in the leveraged loan market remain constructive for issuers. Yes, there’s been…