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Private Credit Defaults 101: Back to School
As Labor Day approaches, the unofficial end of summer is upon us. But, before we get too sad, there is also the familiar back-to-school energy.
Loan Stats at a Glance - 12/7/2020
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
SPACs are Back! What are They?
Besides COVID, the elections, and what the fifth instalment of the Scream series will be called (it’s not Scream 5),…
Institutional loan issuance slips in November, new money share increases
Source: Debtwire Par Institutional loan issuance dropped off in November, recording just USD 25.4bn this month, down 56% from the…
Pricing widens significantly for borrowing base E&P revolvers in 2020
Lending to the oil and gas upstream sector at US$17.3bn is down 78% so far this year from the total…
A comeback for first-timers?
Now that we’re in December, PitchBook’s annual PE Outlook is around the corner and we’re wading back into prediction mode…
Distribution of Synergies & Cost Savings EBITDA Addback Time Horizons (for Actions Resulting in Addbacks)
Contact: Steven Miller
Private Debt Intelligence - 11/30/2020
Investors Plans for Their Allocation to Private Debt by 2025 [wpdm_package id=’40357′] In August 2020, Preqin ran a survey among…
SPACtator Sport
The number of special purpose acquisition company filings have ramped up sharply.
Special Report: COVID-19 and M&A Activity
Beginning in July 2020 The Lead Left published a series of articles on COVID-impacted deal flow. This report consolidates those articles.
Breaking the covenant
Two recent surveys have shed light on the issue of covenant breaches, and how managers are responding to them. With…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 11/30/2020
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
Credit markets: Volumes vs Vaccines
Answer: For most of US history, it was March 4, not January 20.Question: What is Inauguration Day? We found ourselves…









SPACs – A Primer (Part II)
Just before Thanksgiving a faithful reader alerted us to an article from Business Insider [link]. In it noted sommelier and…