Matthew D. O'Meara

Sep 25, 2024 | mondaq.com | Matthew D. O'Meara |Elizabeth Smith |Beth Vogel

As football season kicks off, both professional scouts and fantasy football enthusiasts are on the hunt for the next Brady, Sanders, or Taylor. Everyone is eager to find the next G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) in their respective positions. But for lenders, there's a different kind of G.O.A.T. lurking in credit agreements that you should steer clear of: high-water mark provisions.

Jan 17, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Matthew Bisanz |Frederick Fisher |Matthew D. O'Meara

On December 27, 2023, the US federal banking regulators proposed a new set of reporting requirements for bank loans and commitments to private credit lenders and intermediaries.1 This change reflects not only the rapid growth in this sector, but also the regulators’ desire to better understand and supervise concentrations of credit and risk in the US banking system.

Nov 15, 2023 | lexology.com | Jason Friedman |Sean Scott |Frederick Fisher |Matthew D. O'Meara |Beth Vogel |Scott Zemser

Over the past several years, unitranche facilities have become increasingly prevalent. This growth has been driven by the ever-growing class of private credit and direct lenders who initially developed the unitranche facility structure, along with traditional bank lenders now joining this market. The unitranche structure has several advantages, including typically quicker execution for the parties involved and in some cases a lower cost of capital to the borrower.

Jun 29, 2023 | medium.com | Matthew D. O'Meara

Oh, damn, why are we even in this meeting?? You were prospecting. I was prospecting. In a moment of weakness we each separately decided "I have a lead. Sure let's meet." It happens too often. I thought I had found someone who could help with my business goal... but now we are just mutually cold pitching. I blame LinkedIn.This is often where the dilemma originates. The shallow, wanton promises fill my inbox each week... "so and so wants to connect". Why? Whyyyyyyy? And how do they even know me?

Jun 6, 2023 | medium.com | Matthew D. O'Meara

What do we want? All the Sales and Biz Dev Folks, Talk Like This We're all busy. I oversee 19 people across 8 functions. I'm seeking synergy, fast dev, go to market, and now layer in that we are fundraising, writing content, and telling the story. I'm super busy. I know what my needs are, but I don't have time to hunt and gather solutions. I blame Google. Google created perhaps the web's most dominant metaphor...