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

Golub adds managing director to European direct lending team
Timothée Delisle previously held positions at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Alcentra, BlackRock, and HSBC

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

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

First Eagle taps AlbaCore alum for alternative credit product sales
Edward Berry joins as a managing director in London and will help distribute the firm’s alternative credit products, including those under the Napier Park brand

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

Seward & Kissel hires structured credit head as CLOs, private funds converge
Taha Khan joins from Milbank to build out a structured credit practice that will advise on CLOs as well as complex fund finance solutions like CFOs and rated note feeders

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

Federated Hermes taps Benefit Street’s special-sits exec to lead European credit team
Carlos Gross, who ran special situations at Benefit Street Partners, has been named head of European credit opportunities in Federated Hermes' private credit team

Hayfin names Goldman Sachs veteran as head of investments
Goldman Sachs veteran Michael Marsh has been hired to the newly created role

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

Benefit Street Partners targets Japanese private credit, CLO investments with new hire
Franklin Templeton subsidiary Benefit Street Partners has appointed former Blue Owl MD Takeshi Yamamoto in a newly-created role

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

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

DWS hires former Värde MD to lead ABF business
The appointment underscores the firm’s commitment to private credit after nixing plans to launch a European CLO business last year

Moody’s hires global head of leveraged finance
The US head of leveraged finance, Christina Padgett, retired in November, the ratings agency said.  

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

CAPZA appoints co-head of private debt
New parent company BNPP AM Alts seeks to accelerate the growth of the mid-market private debt franchise in Europe, the company said

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