Direct lending

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

The German market is branching out from unitranche to other types of financing, as well as seeing innovations in documentation, write Thomas Weitkamp, Rainer Adlhart and Anna-Maria Kuckerz of Latham & Watkins

With traditional routes to finance drying up, tech firms are weighing up their direct lending options.

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.

Tradable, Victory Park Capital and Spring Labs ally to break down a silo.

The fund is the firm’s largest to date and hopes to take advantage of reduced appetite among banks to support leveraged financings.

The downgrades follow from the macro context and vulnerability of certain classes of assets.

Carlyle records net loss, attributes it to investment loss on Fortitude Re.