NEW YORK and LONDON, February 3, 2025 – Leading international law firm Proskauer today shared its 2025 Trends in Private Credit report, highlighting market participants’ strong belief that 2025 is expected to be an exciting...more
2/4/2025
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The trend of direct lenders providing preferred equity financing to support sponsors and operating companies has only accelerated in the two years since we first wrote on the topic. Preferred equity instruments in general...more
Increasingly, buyout sponsors are turning to third party preferred equity as a financing tool for their transactions. Structured to be treated as equity for debt rating agencies, bank regulatory regimes and in-place debt...more