
Private Credit
Corporate Private Placements
Our highly experienced and dedicated investment team consists of professionals from both the banking and asset management sectors, with an average of more than 20 years of experience in private placement activity.
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Investment Philosophy
We employ a clear, strategic approach to lending to corporate private assets as we seek to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to our clients, without taking undue risk. We have invested in private placements as a core fixed income product for over 30 years, and have a quantifiable track record of capital preservation and excess relative value.
Our Value Add
- Dedicated Investment Team: Our highly experienced and dedicated investment team averages more than 20 years of experience and leverages strong, long-term relationships to provide access to a highly competitive market
- Disciplined Credit Underwriting: Our credit-intensive culture emphasizes limiting downside risk and focuses on incremental spread and meaningful covenants
- Proven Track Record: Favorable long-term performance
- Proven Nimble Deployment of Capital with a Disciplined Approach to Value Creation: We offer issuers a variety of debt solutions (fixed, floating, various currencies and tenors, complex structured transactions) and deploy capital across different geographies and asset types. This breadth ensures a disciplined approach to delivering relative value, when excess liquidity in a sector can cause mispricing of risk.
Related Viewpoints

2023 Outlook: Public & Private Credit
In this roundtable discussion, our credit market experts across public and private markets describe how they’re navigating today’s more challenging backdrop and where they’re turning to find strong, risk-adjusted returns.

The Widening Appeal of Private Placements & Infrastructure Debt
Illiquid asset classes like private placements and infrastructure debt can offer investors incremental risk-adjusted returns, as well as a number of other compelling competitive advantages.

Can Private Assets Provide Shelter From the Storm?
Head of Private Multi-Strategy Investing, John McNichols discusses how private asset portfolios can be constructed to help investors achieve diversification and manage risks from inflation and rising rates to geopolitical conflict.