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Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast

[Podcast] Private Market Talks: Headlines, Headlines, Headlines with Ares’ Kipp deVeer

This is a special episode that we recorded live at Proskauer’s flagship Private Credit Summit, part of its private capital event series. More than 200 capital allocators, lenders and investors joined us for an afternoon of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Private Markets Update | Summer 2024

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The Private Markets Update highlights key developments emerging from private markets across Europe, the UK and the United States, exploring the cross-border issues that matter to investors and sponsors in alternative assets. ...more

White & Case LLP

Looking at all the angles: incremental debt incurrence flexibility in detail

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From large cap syndicated deals to mid-market private credit, whether in loans or in bonds, the ability for borrowers to incur material incremental debt is commonplace. However, when you look beyond the headline ratios and...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Inside NAV Loans October 2024 - What’s in a NAV Loan?

The purpose of this article is to unpack the basic building blocks of what constitutes a NAV Loan to make sure that market participants have a basic understanding of what is in a NAV Loan and their key negotiated issues. As...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Read and React October 2024 - ILPA NAV Guidance: Market Reaction and Practical Considerations

As most Fund Finance Friday readers probably already know, over the summer, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (“ILPA”) issued guidance for Limited Partners (“LPs”) and General Partners (“GPs”) around the use of...more

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Tepid UK & European private capital markets spur unicorns into inorganic opportunities

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3 reasons for continuously high fintech M&A activity levels: Banks target indirect digital access: Through credit lines, investments in venture capital funds, collaborations with innovators and establishment of next...more

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Sector trends - September 2024: Specialty Finance / Marketplace Lending

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UK & European Financial Services M&A: Sector Trends H2 2023 | H1 2024 — Specialty Finance / Marketplace Lending - Consolidation fever grips non-bank lenders and banks alike—SME lending, revenue-based finance and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The Outlook for M&A Activity in Q4 2024

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In a highly anticipated move, the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut on September 18, reducing rates by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75-5%. This is the first rate cut in four years after interest rates hit a...more

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France sets its sights on becoming Europe’s PE leader

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Governmental pressure and an improving macroeconomic outlook could see French buyout activity gaining on the UK French private equity activity posted an impressive deal value in the first half of 2024 despite political and...more

Mayer Brown

The Intersection of NAV and Margin Loans: Single Asset and Concentrated Asset Pools

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Executive Summary - Over the last several years, a need has arisen in the fund finance market, which caters to private equity, venture capital, family offices, and other investment funds (“Funds”) and their sponsors, for...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Coming Home – Overview of Going Private Transactions of U.S.-Listed Chinese Companies

Since the early 1990s, the U.S. stock exchanges have long been home to many prominent Chinese companies as they tried to attract a wide spectrum of investors and enhance their global profile. Over the past decade, waves of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Public Companies & the Law

Biotech Public Markets Finally Thawing(?): Two Massachusetts Biotechs file S-1s

In an encouraging sign that the equity capital markets may be improving for biotechnology companies, Bicara Therapeutics Inc. and Zenas Biopharma, Inc. filed S-1 registration statements yesterday, signaling their intention to...more

Goodwin

Pluralsight Change of Control Transaction - The Tip of the Private Credit Iceberg?

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The growth in private credit (lending by institutions other than banks) has been one of the most significant capital market developments of the last decade. It is estimated that the size of the private credit market was...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New UK Listing Rules Come Into Force

On 29 July 2024, the new UK Listing Rules came into force. The new rules institute a simpler, more flexible, disclosure-based listing regime and are designed to place London on a competitive footing with other major...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

At a Glance Initial Public Offerings 2023

An initial public offering (IPO) refers to the initial offering by a company of a class of its equity securities, usually with a contemporaneous listing of that class of securities on a national securities exchange....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights – June 2024

Explore the unique considerations for mergers and acquisitions in the AI sector, the return of IPOs, the implications of new Supreme Court decisions and other developments in this edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

US Capital Markets Midyear Report: The Revival of IPOs and a Possible Turning Point

As a testament to the U.S. capital markets’ resilience and ability to adapt, IPOs, debt markets and mergers and acquisitions (and related financings) have shown substantial increases over 2023. Activity to date in 2024...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Roll the Tape June 2024 - Fund Finance Highlight Reel: The First Half in Pictures

This year is starting to feel a bit more normalized after the 2021-2022 record origination numbers followed by the 2023 market disruption. In many ways, Fund finance has passed the stress test and moved forward. What has 2024...more

Conyers

Cayman Islands M&A: on the rise

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Many acquisitions, especially privatisations, are structured as a statutory merger, and in this article, we provide a brief overview of Cayman Islands (“Cayman”) mergers and consolidations and the general requirements for...more

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PE firms increasingly target infrastructure

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The addition of infrastructure to PE firms’ playbooks is part of a broader embrace of adjacent private market asset classes- After a difficult year in which unlisted, closed-end infrastructure funds raised US$112...more

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Navigating the Storm: How Sponsor Guarantees Can Help Your Portfolio Company Through Choppy Waters

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As private-equity backed portfolio companies work through the effects of the last several years of economic challenges, including continuing elevated interest rates, they may find themselves in need of covenant relief,...more

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Highlights on the Reality in the Middle Market Today

On May 7, 2024, Morrison Foerster’s New York City office co-hosted a Private Markets Pop-Up with Kayo Conference Series, an event that brought together professional women across the private credit and private equity markets...more

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Japan’s PE market is thriving, with potential for exits to follow

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Stronger stock market performance bodes well for exit conditions in Japan’s rapidly maturing PE space - Interested observers have long anticipated the “arrival” of Japan’s private equity market. As the world’s...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Bank of England Highlights Concerns With Private Equity Financing

The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) recently delivered a series of speeches1 raising their concerns about the evolution of private equity financing and the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Continuation Funds: What You Need To Know

Over the last 10 years, continuation funds have evolved to be a well-established potential exit route for private fund sponsors. According to advisory estimates, some $40 billion deals were completed in 2023, with more than...more

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