The term “private credit” labors under the weight of negative connotations, yet remains poorly defined. A loan made by a BDC to a middle market widget manufacturer is considered private credit. That same loan made by Bank of America or JP Morgan is not. A loan made by a credit fund to a PE sponsor […]
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Most distressed investors merely live in the darkness; Apollo was born in it. Following the epic collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the high-flying investment bank that filed for Chapter 11 in 1990 after pleading guilty to securities and mail fraud, a triumvirate of bankers from the defunct firm – Michael Milken protege Leon Black and […]