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Enterprise software is an attractive industry for private equity and offers real opportunity for direct lending, says Thoma Bravo’s Oliver Thym.

Protected from inflation and benefiting from rate rises, infrastructure debt looks extremely well placed, says Damien Gardes, co-head of infrastructure debt at Schroders Capital.

Randy Schwimmer is co-head of senior lending and Jason Strife is head of junior capital and private equity solutions at Churchill Asset Management.

Evergreen vehicles are attracting retail investors to private debt, but the big LPs need more convincing, says Barings’ Tyler Gately.

As competition for capital intensifies, private debt managers need to have the scale, flexibility and experience to meet investors’ varying needs and navigate a challenging environment, says Jeff Frank, head of capital solutions & strategy at Twin Brook.

Private equity firms looking to launch their first debt fund are in for a series of challenges if they do not have the operational infrastructure to administer it, warns Alter Domus’s Greg Myers.

Since launching Nuveen’s North American energy infrastructure credit platform, senior managing director Don Dimitrievich discusses the compelling opportunity for infrastructure debt lending in North America.

Twin Brook’s Trevor Clark discusses how macroeconomic issues have impacted lender and borrower behaviour, and what that means when it comes to lender differentiation moving forward.

Providing opportunities for DE&I at a local level empowers teams and allows them to effectively represent and serve the diverse markets they operate in, say Jan Wade and Charlotte Gilbert at Arrow Global.

Vivek Mathew sees a swell in PE-led demand poised to boost private debt despite a looming recession.