Marina Lukatsky

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New crop of loans backing LBOs pushes pricing boundaries

2 months ago | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

The cost of raising debt to finance buyouts in the broadly syndicated leveraged loan market has fallen drastically in 2025, fueled by intense investor demand for new transactions amid a flurry of repricings and refinancings. A lower cost of debt will support increased dealmaking this year, as private equity buyers and sellers continue to evaluate US policy uncertainties.
Monthly Wrap: Leveraged loans set another record; M&A percolates

2 months ago | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

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Monthly Wrap: Record demand fuels leveraged loan market

Dec 5, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

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With rise of private credit, BSL market becomes land of larger borrowers

Nov 21, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

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Leveraged loan market expands, trading prices rally

Nov 7, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

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US leveraged loan market prints record $1 trillion of deals YTD

Oct 29, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

With two months left until year-end, US leveraged loan activity has already entered the record books. At $1.05 trillion, year-to-date activity is 23% ahead of the full-year 2021 tally and 8% higher than the prior peak in 2017. Fifty percent, or a record $524 billion, of this year’s primary market activity has come from repricing amendments — transactions that do not represent new supply for loan investors.
Q3 US Leveraged Loan Market Wrap: M&A, dividend deals rise as Fed pivots

Oct 3, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

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Private credit continues to evolve, disrupt the lending landscape

Oct 2, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Abby Latour |Marina Lukatsky

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Riskier loans lose syndicated market share, as private credit steps up

Sep 18, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky |Olivia Fishlow

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Leveraged loan repricings are back, but will they reach May peaks?

Sep 13, 2024 | pitchbook.com | Marina Lukatsky

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