Oliver Smiddy
The new debt paradigm
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The three co-founders of private debt manager Palio Capital Partners have joined asset manager Chenavari Investment Managers after failing to launch an IPO of their maiden fund.
Mark DeNatale and Scott Bynum have been reunited with former colleague Steve Hickey at CVC Credit Partners, the debt arm of buyout group CVC, after leaving Goldman Sachs.
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Microsoft has provided one of the biggest ever mezzanine loans to fund US buyout group Silver Lake’s record-breaking $24bn buyout of Dell.
Metric Capital Partners, a private debt fund launched by two former UBS bankers, has had a busy first 18 months.
After the Great Financial Crisis came the Great Deleveraging
In Part III of this month's roundtable discussion, our six industry experts discuss the importance of relationships in this new world of private debt, and the role traditional lenders still have to play in the provision of debt financing.
Cinven’s financing specialist Matthew Sabben-Clare talks about the challenges of financing large buyouts in today’s market.
Distressed debt funds have raised a lot of capital, but is the global recession yielding opportunities to match?
An in-depth look at how Goldman Sachs and two US hedge funds won control of UK hotel operator Travelodge through a debt-for-equity swap.