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Laura Benitez

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Reporter at Bloomberg News

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  • 3 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Laura Benitez

    Lane42 Investment Partners founder Scott Graves is building out his senior leadership team, hiring former CVC Capital Partners and Oaktree Capital Management employees to add to the asset manager he founded earlier this year. Cass Traub joined Lane42 as co-founder in the firm’s Santa Monica office and serve on Lane42’s investment and executive committees, according to an emailed statement.

  • 3 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Laura Benitez

    Lane42 Investment Partners founder Scott Graves is building out his senior leadership team, hiring from CVC Capital Partners and Oaktree Capital Management to add to the asset manager he founded earlier this year. Cass Traub joined Lane42 as co-founder in the firm’s Santa Monica office and serve on Lane42’s investment and executive committees, according to an emailed statement. Traub was previously the executive chairman and chief financial officer of Oaktree-owned technology company BusPatrol.

  • 4 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Laura Benitez

    Ares Management Corp. closed a deal with Antares Capital to take over $1.2 billion of private credit, marking its largest secondary investment yet in the asset class. The transaction is structured as a so-called continuation vehicle that will transfer the portfolio of loans into a new fund, alongside a commitment from Antares, the firms said in a joint statement Monday.

  • 5 days ago | bloomberg.com | Silas Brown |Alexandre Rajbhandari |Laura Benitez

    A tiny ratings firm says it’s the market's most prolific grader of private credit. Industry insiders worry trouble is brewing.

  • 1 week ago | fa-mag.com | Laura Benitez |Todd Gillespie

    Apollo Global Management Inc. is working with JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and three other banks to trade private credit, partnering with Wall Street’s largest firms to syndicate investment-grade debt on a broader scale. The banks act as broker-dealers, sometimes buying debt originated by Apollo and putting it on their own balance sheets and at other times brokering and pricing sales to third parties, according to people familiar with the matter. Citigroup Inc.

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Laura Benitez
Laura Benitez @lauralevfinance
27 Feb 25

RT @GillianTan: $APO x $META scoop w/ @sridinats & @lauralevfinance ⬇️

Laura Benitez
Laura Benitez @lauralevfinance
21 Aug 24

NEW: A London-based investment firm backed by a trust of Russian tycoon Boris Mints, is carving out a niche in arranging financing for the kinds of deals that traditional lenders tend to avoid. Story here w/@ManySundays @JackSidders https://t.co/49NmebBstN via @business

Laura Benitez
Laura Benitez @lauralevfinance
13 Aug 24

"A lot of the people who are hosed by these maneuvers instead say “I had better start doing these maneuvers to hose everyone else instead,” and an ecosystem of mutual one-upmanship develops". A great take from @matt_levine on our piece about capital (sometimes violent) solutions.

Matt Levine
Matt Levine @matt_levine

Whatever your desires are that you need to come in every day in Money Stuff, have at it. https://t.co/vxoQ0McbXK