Judge Alfredo Perez: How a Houston veteran’s addition affects one of bankruptcy’s premier benches
Perez was quickly handed mega cases including Sunnova, Saks, and QVC; his appointment maintains Southern Texas' reputation as a top bankruptcy venue

Blackstone’s BCRED co-CEO resigns
Jonathan Bock, co-CEO of Blackstone’s flagship private credit fund BCRED, has resigned from his role, leaving Brad Marshall to manage the fund alone

Vistina builds out team and opens London base after Moody’s hire
EXCLUSIVE: After hiring Moody’s executive and ratings expert Jeanine Arnold, private credit advisory firm Vistina is expanding its European footprint

Houlihan hires HarbourVest MD in GP-led secondaries push 
Dan Buffery joins the investment bank to help lead the firm’s North American GP-led secondaries advisory business

Nick Fall returns to Barclays as co-head of US leveraged finance capital markets
Fall, who joined the bank after a five-year stint at Goldman Sachs, officially started in the role this week

Silver Point hires Goldman MD for private credit origination
Michael Cote previously served as a managing director in Goldman Sachs’s leveraged finance business

Cahill’s private credit co-head joins Paul Hastings in New York
Peter Williams, who also has experience as a managing director at KKR, now joins Paul Hasting’s global finance platform

King & Spalding adds former Proskauer partner in fund finance biz build out
The law firm has recruited Ron Franklin, who previously served as co-head of the corporate & fund finance group at Proskauer Rose

Orrick adds four more partners to growing structured finance team
Orrick has grown its structured finance team further with the addition of four new partners to meet “unprecedented” demand for ABS expertise

CalPERS appoints leaders for total portfolio approach investing, private markets
The US pension giant has hired a CPP Investments alum to lead the transition to a new portfolio investment strategy

Barings reorganises leadership team, taps new president
Barings President Eric Lloyd is transitioning to the role of vice chairman

Mercer appoints head of North American private debt
The investment consultant also named a head of North American infrastructure and head of Americas real estate

Golub shakes up leadership with co-CEOs, co-Presidents appointments
The alternative credit manager will have three co-presidents after promoting Spyro Alexopoulos and hiring two new executives

JPMorgan hires Morgan Stanley executive to lead global secondaries practice
William Boyle previously served as Morgan Stanley’s global head of private capital advisory; new hire bolsters JP Morgan’s recently formed private capital advisory unit

Barings hires former Northleaf MD to expand capital solutions platform
CJ Wei has joined Barings as a managing director for capital solutions and a portfolio manager for specialty asset-based finance

Northleaf private ABF managing director exits
CJ Wei, who focused on asset-based finance at the Canadian private markets firm, departs for a new role

Muzinich appoints Tatjana Greil Castro as global head of investments
The privately-owned corporate credit specialist has also appointed Thomas Samson as global head of high yield and Hugo Wheeler as head of global accounts and marketing

Blackstone to launch new private multi-asset products for affluent individuals
The new products, expected to come in the following months, will offer exposure to multiple private market asset strategies at once

Citi announces debt capital markets co-heads, including a hire from BofA
The new co-heads will fill the open spot left by head of global debt capital markets Rich Zogheb, who is retiring after 40 years in the industry

CPPIB appoints head of structured credit group in leadership shakeup
Paras Vira, a managing director in the capital solutions group, will start as head of CPP Investments’ structured credit group on 1 April, a spokesperson said

Moelis taps Barclays alum to lead private credit secondaries
Kyle Reidy previously served as global head of structured credit origination at Barclays.  

Pemberton reorganizes, appoints new private credit leaders
The firm’s chief credit officer is leaving at the end of March, the company said

SocGen creates insurance solutions group, hires MD
EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Schneider most recently served as head of private credit at Cresset

Muzinich names new co-head of US private debt in flurry of senior hires
Jens Ernberg has joined Muzinich from Camberline Capital Management, along with Matthew Bandini and Rocco DelGuercio

McDermott promotes partner in fund finance business buildout
The newly combined law firm McDermott Will & Schulte wants to focus more on lender-side counsel as net-asset-value lending market expands