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Loan Stats at a Glance – 12/14/2015
Contact: Daniel Mena daniel.mena@spcapitaliq.com
Markit Recap – 12/7/2015
The commodities rout continued in earnest this week as oil prices hit recent multi year lows, while industrial metal prices also retreated to levels lower than those seen in the depths of the volatility earlier in the year. These developments are not surprisingly translating into further pain for bond investors in resource dependent sectors with both investment…
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Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis – 12/7/2015
The average purchase price for large corporate LBO deals is still well below the large-scale deals struck during the buyout boom, but select mega deals are resurfacing. The average purchase price year to date for large corporate LBO deals is around $1.8 billion, slightly behind 2014 levels of $1.9 billion, but far lower… Subscribe to
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The Art of the Club Deal
When we first began distributing middle market loans (in the waning days of the Reagan Administration), the concept was novel. Back then money-center banks underwrote and syndicated mainly large corporate loans to other relationship banks. Smaller deals were mostly self-arranged, club affairs among regional banks and finance companies. Ironically the world of middle market loan…
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Lead Left Interview – Josh Lerner (Part 2)
This week we continue our conversation with Josh Lerner, the Chair of the Entrepreneurship Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School. He has recently been named one of the 100 most influential people in private equity over the past decade by Private Equity International magazine. He currently serves as Vice Chair…
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Chart of the Week – Flex Time
Since August’s market volatility, more post-launch pricing changes have been investor-friendly.
The Pulse of Private Equity – 12/7/2015
Global PE Cash Flows for 2015 Already Strong In the first quarter of 2015, private equity firms worldwide have already distributed $168.2 billion back to their limited partners, while calling down $114.3 billion. Those two sums combined produce a net cash flow for 2015 of $53.9 billion already, no less than 32% of last year’s…
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