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Select Deals in the Market – 5/1/2017
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Debtwire Middle-Market – 5/1/2017
Source: Cliffwater Direct Lending Index and BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield Listen to the latest edition of the Debtwire Middle Market Junction podcast as Alexander Montano of Roth Capital Partners talks about the post-emergent E&P landscape with Rachel Butt and Jon Berke of Debtwire Middle Market. The discussion centers around how new…
Elements of Corporate Risk (Fifth of a Series)
Being in an industry prone to litigation is one of the trickiest corporate risks to manage. For one thing, lawsuits and class action claims aren’t under a borrower’s control. For another, judges and juries can be fickle. In dealing with a similar issue, they might hammer one defendant with major damages while letting another off…
Lead Left Interview – Ted Bililies
This week we chat with Ted Bililies, Managing Director and Chief Talent Officer for AlixPartners. Ted is a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist with decades of experience in leadership and organization development. Though known originally as a restructuring firm, AlixPartners has grown over the last 35 years into a global consulting firm that specializes in whole company…
Covenant Trends – Distribution of ECF Sweep Step-Down Ratio Types
Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview
Chart of the Week: Shadow Banked
The share of middle market club deals held by non-lenders remains just under 70% for the first quarter.
Loan Stats at a Glance – 5/1/2017
Contact: Timothy Stubbs timothy.stubbs@spglobal.com
The Pulse of Private Equity – 5/1/2017
Healthy fundraising geared toward US middle market continues to set stage for competition View PitchBook’s 1Q 2017 US PE Middle Market Report Here Pegged for some time now as a potentially more fruitful arena for private equity firms looking for respite from high valuations, the US middle market hasn’t seen as much dedicated, new fundraising…
Private Debt Intelligence – 5/1/2017
Private Debt Funds in Market by Geography As at the start of Q2 2017, there were 284 private debt funds in market seeking an aggregate $112bn of investor capital. These figures were roughly the same as they were a year previous, when 260 funds were targeting $123bn globally. Europe was the only region which recorded…