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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.

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 12/7/2020

    Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com

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    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),…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Distribution of Synergies & Cost Savings EBITDA Addback Time Horizons (for Actions Resulting in Addbacks)

    Contact: Steven Miller

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    Stat of the Week: The Covid Resilience Ranking

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    Select Deals in the Market - 11/30/2020

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    For Thanksgiving this year our family plans to....

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    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…

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    SPACtator Sport

    The number of special purpose acquisition company filings have ramped up sharply.

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    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…

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    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.

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    Breaking the covenant

    Two recent surveys have shed light on the issue of covenant breaches, and how managers are responding to them. With…

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 11/30/2020

      Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com

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    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…

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