Crescent taps Jason Breaux for head of private credit
Breaux will also continue to serve as CEO of Crescent Capital’s business development fund

Apollo raises USD 8.5bn for opportunistic credit
The fundraise includes commitments for Accord+ Fund II as well as for separately managed accounts and other related vehicles

DE Shaw closes USD 1.3bn private credit fund to back risk transfers, capital relief
The sophomore Diopter II fund will fund investments related to capital relief, risk transfer, risk sharing and other transactions by financial institutions

Squire Patton Boggs boosts funds capabilities with recruitment of fund formation specialist
Cassandra W. Borchers has joined the firm as a partner from Thompson Hine

New York, New Mexico pensions lead recent private credit investment
New York State, New Mexico pension systems disclose recent private credit investment worth USD 800m

Apera secures EUR 2.9bn for European lower middle market lending
The fundraise for Apera Private Debt Fund III is double the size of its predecessor vehicle

KKR, Capital Group expand partnership with plans for public-private market product
The private market specialist is joining forces with a traditional asset manager to better reach individual investors

Private credit funds, partner banks present risks as global growth slows—IMF
Private credit funds and their partner banks can face losses as a slowing economy will challenge borrowers’ ability to repay loans

JPMorgan enters private credit big leagues with USD 4bn Boeing unit financing
EXCLUSIVE: The bank takes down the third-largest piece of the giant unitranche, lending shoulder-to-shoulder with direct-lending giants

M&A rebound will come – Goldman Sachs’ Vivek Bantwal
Goldman Sachs' co-head of global private credit chats with Lisa Lee on the Credit Exchange podcast

ABF specialist Balbec names new CEO
Peter Troisi to take the helm as Charles Rusbasan transitions to an executive chairman role

Defined benefit plans shift focus to private credit, secondaries - NEPC
Some corporate defined benefit plans are shifting their private market allocation to favor shorter-duration strategies as part of a de-risking plan

Mubadala to deploy USD 1bn alongside Fortress into private credit co-investments
The new partnership will see the Middle Eastern investor giant co-invest with Fortress’s existing strategies across private credit, asset-based lending, and real estate  

Audax launches private BDC with USD 1.1bn
The new product is aimed at wealthy individual investors in the US

Invesco, Barings team up on private credit for wealth channel
Barings parent MassMutual plans to seed the partnership with an initial USD 650m

Cliffwater aims for more than USD 10bn in private credit co-investments
EXCLUSIVE: The firm, which now oversees nearly USD 28bn in its private credit interval fund, says it's found "an abundance" of co-investment opportunities

Generali Investments, Partners team up on private credit secondaries fund
Generali Investments’ debut private credit secondaries fund will invest globally and is available to professional investors

26North hires direct lending MD from H.I.G. Capital
The new managing director previously spent more than 3 years working for H.I.G. Capital

Squire Patton Boggs hires global head of private credit and direct lending
The newly created position is being filled by a former partner at Polsinelli

Sculptor raises USD 900m for maiden tactical private credit fund
The “all-weather” fund originally launched in 2021, according to a filing

TPG, Temasek take minority stake in private credit interval fund pioneer Cliffwater
Cliffwater has nearly USD 28bn in its flagship private credit interval fund, the largest in the US

Tariffs will increase defaults – Blackstone
The alternative asset management giant also said the private credit market is providing financing that previously would not have been available in times of dislocation like this

Maryland pension PM joins Nomura’s public-private credit manager
The company is also looking to hire two more investment professionals

Golub launches direct lending continuation vehicle
GP-led secondaries deals involve a manager rolling existing investments into a new vehicle rather than returning capital to investors as originally planned

Private credit spreads widen, talks pivot to dividend deals
ANALYSIS: Private corporate credit lenders are starting to push for higher spreds amid volatility in the leveraged loan market, and talks switch to dividend deals from buyout financing