Jonathan Lavine, Co-Managing Partner at Bain Capital, is predicting more M&A activity in the booming credit market space as smaller lending firms look to grow their businesses to benefit from economies of scale, according to a report by Bloomberg.
European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group has priced AlbaCore Euro CLO VI, its sixth collateralised loan obligation, at €402.3m, growing the total values of the firms’ CLO issuance to date from €2.2bn to ~€2.6bn.
Global law firm Dechert has appointed Eliot L Relles as a Partner in its corporate and securities practice group as part of efforts to enhance its capabilities in leveraged finance and private credit. Relles will be based in the firm’s New York office.
Värde Partners, a global alternative investment firm specialising in credit and credit-related strategies, committed $1.3bn across its asset-based lending and diversified private credit platform during 2023.
Healthcare software specialist RLDatix is to refinance its existing debt facilities with a new $2bn-plus private credit loan led by Blue Owl Capital, with Ares Management and Golub Capital also significant participants in the deal, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The current higher interest rate environment has helped private debt funds generate better returns for investors than private equity buyout funds for the second quarter running, according to a report by The Business Times.
Global private investment firm Carlyle is to launch a new semi-liquid European private credit strategy which provides individual investors with access to the firm’s $188bn AUM global credit platform.
Credit-focused alternative asset manager Apollo Global Management has experienced a record year in annual earnings — prompting the firm’s CEO, Marc Rowan, to take a “victory lap” — and is setting targets to double its private credit origination business and put the asset class into retirement accounts, according to a
Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners are close to agreeing a $2bn debt package with a group of private credit lenders including Apollo Global Management and Blackstone to help finance their leveraged buyout of software developer Alteryx, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Alternative investment giant Blackstone has opened its retail private credit fund ECRED to retail investors in France as part of an exclusive partnership with BNP Paribas’ wealth management and Cardif companies.
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