Private Debt News

Over the past two years, private credit has gone from a supporting role to a starring role in financing transactions such as leveraged buyouts, bolt-on acquisitions, and refinancings. The share of transactions financed by private credit in European markets more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, from 27% to 56% (Exhibit 1).

Los Angeles, CA (March 18, 2024) – Investment funds managed by Mesa West Capital (“MWC”) and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (“MSREI”) have funded a $150 million mezzanine loan to finance an industrial construction project in Tacoma, WA for Bridge Industrial. The mezzanine loan, along with a $263 million first mortgage construction loan originated by […]

Many private credit lenders are making preferred equity — a hybrid of debt and equity — investments in the firms’ companies, which gives them a place in the repayment chain, senior to the private equity firms but junior to existing creditors.

Nach dem Horrorjahr 2022 war auch 2023 für die Private Markets kein leichtes. Zu diesem Schluss kommt das kalifornische Investmenthaus Franklin Templeton, das sich für das laufende Jahr aber vorsichtig optimistisch gibt. Demnach war es im vergangenen vor allem eine schleichende Liquiditätskrise, die die Akteure vor große Herausforderungen stellte. Diese wurde durch eine Vielzahl von […]

Over the past year, the JSE Top 40 lost roughly 10% of its value as measured in rands – and more in dollars. South African wealth is being eroded in global terms, creating a serious problem for local investors.

Europe’s private credit funds are increasingly borrowing from banks to boost their performance, fuelling concerns about the wider risks posed by this interconnectedness. A record 80% of new European private credit funds borrowed from banks via ‘subscription lines’ in 2023, funding that allows them to lend before tapping their investors for cash, MSCI Private Capital […]

Direct-Lending-Finanzierungen sind eine Unterart von Private Debt und zählen somit zu den alternativen Anlagen. Doch in vielerlei Hinsicht ist die Form der Kreditfinanzierung bereits Teil des Mainstreams geworden. So haben Direktkreditgeber seit dem Jahr 2015 Kapital in Höhe von 265 Milliarden US-Dollar beschafft: Die niedrige Volatilität, die geringe Korrelation mit anderen Anlageklassen und die Bareinnahmen […]

GoldenTree Asset Management raised over $1.35 billion for its first pure private credit fund, the firm said in a statement on Monday, getting a strong foothold in a booming market. The firm, with $53 billion in assets under management, has already invested $6 billion in private credit through its other fixed income funds for over […]

Private debt managers are finding it increasingly difficult to raise money for direct lending funds. The processes take longer and are focussed on a few large addresses. Resurgent investment banks are also fuelling competition.