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Exclusive: Benefit Street hires GSO energy MDProvidence Equity’s credit affiliate will offer direct lending to mid-market energy companies out of Houston.
- Sound Harbor adds two research analysts
Both hires are former colleagues of the credit firm’s two partners, Michael Zupon and Dean Criares.
- Blackstone Advisory hires in Madrid
The advisory arm of US private equity giant the Blackstone Group has hired two former Rothschild colleagues in Madrid.
- Lone Star to buy £540m Irish mortgage business
The purchase includes a banking licence which will enable the investment firm to lend in Ireland.
- Blackstone and TPG bag UK mortgage lender
The US pair have agreed to pay £180m in equity and debt to Investec to acquire UK mortgage finance company Kensington.
- Strategic Value Partners nears $1bn target
The distressed debt and turnaround investor has raised $900m of a targeted $1 bn for its third special situations fund.
- Lenders to securitize Blackstone's $570m hotel debt
$570 million of bank debt provided against a 47-hotel portfolio will be securitized.
- GSO’s BDC reduces syndicated loan exposure
Direct originations have been increasing at FSIC for the past several quarters and continue apace so far this summer
- Friday Letter: Onwards and upwards
Private investment in real estate debt continues growing and here’s what some of these managers are bringing to the table.
- Friday Letter: A sigh of relief for now
The private debt industry should follow the lead of its private equity counterparts and engage proactively with regulators, lest the further controls being mooted for banks be extended to cover alternative lenders too.