Hayfin hires two MDs for product and sales
The two managing directors will join the firm’s partner solutions group that focuses on creating new products and reaching new investors

Hayfin hires head of capital markets
The new managing director joins as the firm seeks to pursue larger private credit deals

Samsung Life becomes latest institution to take minority stake in Hayfin
Insurer Samsung Life joins Mubadala and AXA IM Prime as minority stakeholders in Hayfin

Hayfin hires MD to expand private credit in Nordic region
EXCLUSIVE: Marco Ferrari joins the private credit team and will be based out of the firm’s Stockholm office

AXA Prime, Mubadala take stakes in Hayfin as more private credit firms welcome outside investors
Private credit managers selling GP stakes to third parties has become more common as managers seek ways to spur additional growth

Hayfin adds Chicago office for fundraising and originations
Hayfin managing directors Steve Bringardner and Andrew Merrill will be based in Chicago to develop the office and grow the team

Hayfin raising new direct lending fund while narrowing potential buyer list
Hayfin Capital Management is fundraising a new European direct lending fund even as the UK asset manager narrows down a list of potential acquirers to buy the firm

Hayfin adds managing director in private credit from BlackRock
London-based Michaela Campbell and will be responsible for leading the private credit team’s portfolio monitoring and risk profile

Hayfin secures its largest private credit fundraise to date with €6 billion in commitments
Hayfin's latest private credit fundraise exceeds target goals, securing more than €6 billion in capital commitments

Hayfin Capital Management beefs up high-yield and syndicated loans team

Hayfin Capital Management has hired a new head of high yield and syndicated loans trading from Capital Asset Solutions

LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus...

Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
   

LP round up: Oak Hill wins $3bn mandate as credit allocations near $10bn in March
Institutional investors revealed over $9.5 billion of allocations to credit funds in March. Oak Hill Advisors walked away with the largest mandate, as US heavyweight pension Calpers allocated a whopping $3 billion across several of its funds

Portfolio manager leaves Hayfin after one year
A London-based official in Hayfin Capital Management's private credit team has left the firm 

Goldman Sachs MD joins buy side in private credit role
An experienced leveraged finance banker is taking his first buy-side role at a large European direct lender 

Hayfin dilutes structured credit unit as senior pair launch their own business
Hayfin Capital Management is pulling back from structured credit with the head of this business and a portfolio manager leaving to launch their own business

Hayfin raises 'more than €2 billion' for special opportunities strategy
Hayfin Capital Management has held a ‘more than €2 billion’ final close on its third special opportunities private credit fund, Hayfin Special Opportunities Fund III

Hayfin hires senior business development officials from BlackRock and Atalaya
Hayfin Capital Management has hired two New York-based managing directors to its business development team

Hayfin creates head of ESG role in London
Hayfin Capital Management says it has hired a head of ESG. This is a newly-created role, but Hayfin says it has “well-established environmental, social and governance capabilities”

LP round up: no Stoptober as investors allocate $5 billion to credit
US institutional investors allocated $5 billion to credit funds in October, with Oak Hill and Pimco among the biggest mandates    

Credit Rendezvous: Credit spins full circle
The third quarter was massive in terms of volumes with CLOs, high yield, leverage loans and private equity registering record issuance. But credit spreads were up and down as inflation fears, crackdowns in China and rising coronavirus cases became catalysts for risk-off sentiment in July and September

Hayfin confirms Euro CLO PM hire as business scales to €3 billion
Hayfin Capital Management has confirmed the appointment of European CLO portfolio manager 

US loan managers capture secondary opportunities as new issues struggle
US loan managers switched gears by sourcing loans in the secondary market in the second quarter. This came as pricing in the primary market became less attractive in the early part of Q2 and with new loan issuance slowing in May and June

Credit funds at a glance (May 2021)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit 

Credit fundraising: three massive European direct lending funds notch up €17.6 bn
Fundraising figures continued upwards in April as just over $24 billion was raised for credit funds, alongside $3.2 worth of allocations to credit managers. Nine funds held final closes including the largest European direct lending fund raised to date