Global credit funds & CLO's
October 2020
| Issue 228Published in London & New York.
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October 2020 | Issue 228
Private Credit 2020
A virtual event: 15 October, 9am, New York
Mike Ewald
Bain Capital
Leonard Klingman
Ropes & Gray
Kevin McCloud
Cerberus
Michelle Handy
First Eagle
09:00 - Welcome
Sayed Kadiri
and Dan Alderson
, Creditflux
After everything 2020 has thrown at the world there is plenty for our panel of the best-known faces in the middle-market discuss
Michael Ewald
, MD, global head of the private credit group
, Bain Capital Credit
; Kenneth Kencel
, president and CEO
, Churchill Asset Management
; Raj Makram
, MD and co-portfolio manager, middle-market finance
, Oaktree Capital
; Brad Marshall
, senior managing director
, GSO Capital Partners
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09:15 - Live virtual panel: State of the middle-market
10:00 - In conversation: How the boundaries between broadly syndicated and private are shifting
Todd Koretzky
, partner, Allen & Overy
; John Toronto
, managing director
, Oak Hill Advisors
10:30 - Networking break
11:00 - In conversation
with
Fitch Ratings
11:30 - Live virtual panel: Deploying distressed dry powder
There was already a mountain of dry powder waiting for distressed opportunities even before investors and managers alike responded to the pandemic with a fresh burst of fund-raising. So how will all of this money actually get deployed?
Leonard Klingbaum
, partner
, Ropes & Gray
; Giacomo Picco
, head of capital solutions and alternative lending
Sound Point Capital Management
12:15 - Intermission
CLOs have become an increasingly popular way for investors to access the middle-market, and while the pandemic has slowed down issuance deals are still being printed. What does the future hold for mid-market CLOs?
Kevin McLeod
, head of fund development
, Cerberus Business Finance
; Jerry van Koolbergen
, MD, structured credit
, DBRS Morningstar
14:05 - Live virtual panel: Middle-market CLOs
14:45 - Presentation
tbc
15:15 - Networking break
16:15 - Networking break
Hear how investment decisions are made at some of the top shops in the business as they decide which opportunities are worth bidding for. The (anonymized) case studies, based on recent deals in the market, probe deep into management style, appetite for risk and approach to structuring.
Michelle Handy
, MD and head of portfolio & underwriting
, First Eagle Alternative Credit
17:00 - Close