On-Demand Webinar
Re-embracing risk: The state of the US leveraged loan and private credit markets
With the interest rate landscape beginning to settle, loan investors and issuers are returning to the finance markets, heightening already-tense competition between syndicated lenders and private credit.
In this quarterly webinar series, our credit analysts look at the latest in the US leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets.
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Key topics
- Overall activity in the US leveraged loan market hit its highest levels in four years, though LBOs remain a challenge
- With investors warming to risk, borrowers have flocked to the market to refinance expensive debt
- Private credit continues as a major provider of loans, while it also looks to new frontiers
- A revitalized high-yield bond market sees a return of unsecured issuance—will this aggressive stance continue?
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Featuring
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Marina Lukatsky is a senior director and global head of credit and US private equity research, and leads the firm’s coverage of US and European leveraged loan, high-yield bond, and private credit markets. Lukatsky is responsible for developing analytics and commentary detailing trends in the global leveraged finance market. She leads a team of analysts producing weekly, monthly, and quarterly research content covering the leveraged loan and private credit markets, and regularly contributes analytical commentary to LCD News and quarterly research reports covering a wide range of leveraged loan and private credit trends.
Lukatsky holds an MBA from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Pace University. She is based in PitchBook’s New York office.
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Rachelle Kakouris covers the US leveraged finance markets with a focus on stressed and distressed credits. Before joining LCD, Kakouris was a reporter for Reuters and IFR on the US high-yield corporate bond market in New York. Prior to that, she covered sovereign and covered bonds as a markets reporter for IFR Magazine and IFR Markets in London during the height of the financial crisis.
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Abby currently writes about middle-market loans and private credit for LCD. She started at LCD in 2004, writing about high-yield bonds, later turning her attention to distressed debt during the credit crisis. From 2009 to 2013, she wrote about Asia-Pacific credit markets for LCD, while based in Hong Kong. Prior to S&P Global, she was with Reuters, first as a correspondent in the Nordic region and then as a copy editor based in London.
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John has written about the financial markets for more than 20 years, including coverage of the high-grade corporate bond markets since 1993. Prior to joining LCD in May 2011, John wrote for Reuters and Thomson prior to their merger, as well as IDEAglobal.
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Tim has been with LCD since 2001. He was the first to edit LCD’s news and analysis, and oversee the development of the lcdcomps.com news platform. He went on to manage the group’s IT team and application development, and he later directed LCD’s social media. Prior to joining LCD, Tim spent eight years as managing editor at LPC Reuters, where he edited the company’s flagship Gold Sheets publication, ran the US and London editorial groups, wrote news stories and oversaw league tables. Before LPC, Tim was managing editor of Bank Loan Report, where he wrote news and feature stories. He also contributed to its sister publication, Investment Dealers’ Digest.
