Covenant Trends – 11/27/2017
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Debtwire Middle-Market – 11/27/2017
Source: Cliffwater Direct Lending Index and BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The red line in the chart is the *Cliffwater Direct Lending Index (CDLI) current yield, which is based on the investment income of the underlying assets held by public and private BDCs. BDCs invest in middle market companies, and the Index comprises of more…
Select Deals in the Market – 11/27/2017
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Sweet Success
Thanksgiving weekend included this family’s first trip to Hershey, Pa. For three little girls HersheyPark and Chocolate World were candy-coated nirvana. Life doesn’t get sweeter than designing your own chocolate bar. Sprinkles? Butterscotch chips? Yum. For adult vacationers the story of Milton Hershey’s entrepreneurial journey was educational. His formal schooling ended in fourth grade. Two…
Lead Left Interview – Mark MacTavish
This week we chat with Mark MacTavish, a Managing Director at ONCAP, which is the dedicated middle market private equity platform of Onex Corporation. Onex was founded in 1984 and manages approximately $24 billion in assets, principally through two private equity platforms, in which each Onex is the largest investor. In November 2016, ONCAP raised…
Chart of the Week: Holding Time
After a three year pause, the number of sponsor-backed portfolio companies held for over five years is rising.
Private Debt Intelligence – 11/27/2017
Private Debt Management Fees Both mean and median management fees for private debt funds have been moving down since the highs for vintage 2013 funds, with the average management fees falling to a 10-year low among 2017 vintage funds. The mean investment fee for 2017 vehicles has dropped to 1.52%, while the median fee has…
The Pulse of Private Equity – 11/27/2017
The middle market isn’t cheap Download PitchBook’s Report click here. Middle market activity has never been as strong as it is now. What used to be a space to find bargains has turned into just another frenzied market, one among many. The median valuation-to-EBITDA multiple for all middle-market M&A transactions is up yet again this…
Loan Stats at a Glance – 11/27/2017
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