PE a growing force in M&A Download PitchBook’s Report here. Private equity is accounting for a growing share of M&A transactions. PitchBook’s just-released Global M&A Report shows that PE deals made up about 37% of all acquisitions last quarter, continuing an upward trend from the low 20s less than a decade ago. Last year PE transactions…
Private debt practitioners have noted the shortage of credible benchmarks against which to compare various managers’ performance. Well, our friends at Lincoln International have decided to do something about it. Their team has developed a loan index created from the 2400 private companies they value. Leveraging expertise across that broad middle market portfolio affords Lincoln […]
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More deals get done with a Libor floor in April There has been a shift in the institutional market in April as more new money loans hit the market. In 1Q21, limited supply led to issuer friendly terms and low pricing. Downward price flexes dominated in 1Q21, and issuers took advantage to reprice their loans….
Private debt, compared to private equity and real estate, is a relatively recent entrant to the alternative asset class. But that market has grown faster than others over the past decade. In 2007, just before the Great Recession, private debt AUM measured less than $200 billion. Today the universe of illiquid credit is $900 billion…
While Libor has slumped since 2018, Libor floors and direct lending spreads have remained in a range.
SBO share of buyout issuance slips Source: Debtwire Par Sponsor-to-sponsor buyouts have been commonplace in the first several months of 2021, accounting for roughly 32% of buyout-related leveraged loan issuance. While buyout activity set records in 1Q21 in terms of both deal value (USD 161bn) and count (485 deals), according to Mergermarket, leveraged loans issued…