Direct Lending

Ares Management is in talks to take the keys to Charles Taylor in a debt-for-equity swap.

The most recent European direct lending data shows a boost in deal count and estimated volume.

The European Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include counts and estimated volume, spread distribution and leverage.

Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR all formed strategic partnerships with NVIDIA to establish independent financing platforms.

SLR’s Michael Gross says lenders may have to throw historic recovery data out the window.

The US Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include estimated volume and counts, spread distribution, syndicated and direct lending takeouts, and middle market CLO issuance.

Advances in AI have changed the game for software businesses, Hayfin’s Marc Chowrimootoo tells LCD.

The company was marketed on EBITDA of roughly €80 million.

Synthetic risk transfers are being used across a range of transactions.

The European Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include counts and estimated volume, spread distribution and leverage.

The Q2 2026 US Evergreen Fund Landscape report covers the rapid rise of evergreen funds, providing data and insights on assets, flows, returns, and more.

As exit opportunities that would usually return cash to sponsors become scarce, private credit secondaries have entered the fray.

LCD has not tracked a single LBO financing over $2 billion by direct lenders since early March.

This key market segment is being re-examined, with a fault-line separating companies according to AI exposure.

The best assets draw fierce competition from lenders, while a backlog of companies struggle to find buyers.

Attendees at SuperReturn conference in Berlin are told institutional support for the asset class ‘remains rock solid.’

The US Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include estimated volume and counts, spread distribution, syndicated and direct lending takeouts, and middle market CLO issuance.

The European Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include counts and estimated volume, spread distribution and leverage.