President Donald Trump’s much anticipated ‘Liberation Day’ sent global markets into a tizzy in April, but how did private credit firms react?

During what we have termed the ‘Deliberation Days’ of Q1, private credit investors were scrambling to mitigate potential tariff risks as best they could but they were also on the offensive.

Elijah Jackson’s latest quarterly report on the state of the market, ‘Good Deal Hunting’, is aptly titled as direct lenders did not shy away from stealing BSL marketshare during the period. And PC firms were also able to pick up an extra 25bps of spread on average — how d’ya like them apples?

David Brooke, 9fin’s private credit editor, sat down with Elijah on this week’s episode of Cloud 9fin to unpack some of the wicked smart moves that lenders made.

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In this week’s episode of Syndication Nation, a podcast dedicated to all things leveraged finance-related, 9fin deputy editor Sasha Padbidri and head of legal James Wallick have put together a terrible headline and a great conversation on the emergence of President Donald Trump’s tariff language in new issue debt documents.

For more details (and terrible headlines), check out our reporting on Spanish waste management company Urbaser, which is among the first leveraged credits to include tariff language in its new issue bond OM.

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In this episode of Jane’s LME Addiction, our head of LME coverage Jane Komsky brings in Rachel Murray, a managing director at Moelis, to discuss how today’s restructuring environment compares to the Covid era and how that experience can guide clients. They discuss what makes an LME effective, in addition to current trends and techniques that are shaping the space.

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In this episode of Cloud 9fin, Tanvi Gupta, global head of CLOs at 9fin, talks with Yang Xu, CEO at City Hall Capital, to discuss the growth of family offices allocating to CLOs.

They talk about how CLO equity and mezz ticks all the boxes for family offices, the need for more double-B CLO funds, captive equity vs third party equity funds, and how CLO managers need to do more to educate family offices, which other asset classes do better.

In the inaugural episode of Syndication Nation, 9fin’s podcast on all things syndicated debt, deputy editor William Hoffman joined US managing editor Bill Weisbrod to talk about his recent coverage of Warner Bros. Discovery and its $37bn of debt to high yield by S&P. They discussed what led to the downgrade, the prospects for the company reaching full-blown fallen angel status, and broader implications for the high yield market if and when that happens.

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In today’s market, speed of information and up-to-the-minute accuracy are essential in portfolio management. With that in mind, Chase Collum, head of podcasts at 9fin, sat down with Scott Alintoff at FIS to discuss how lenders can ensure they’re staying ahead in these turbulent times.

In this third of a series of discussions, Scott shares a high level view of the state of the market, current challenges, and how technology is helping people in the middle office manage the mountains of data that underly the broadly syndicated and private debt markets.

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Altice France’s restructuring negotiations has been one of the hottest talks of the distress town since last year. With the company now preparing to enter into accelerated safeguard proceedings, we went through what happened so far in our inaugural episode of Distressed Diaries — a brand new 9fin podcast series focused on distressed debt in Europe.

Senior distressed reporter Bianca Boorer, host of the series, travelled to Paris to meet with key advisors involved in the negotiations. She sits down with Saam Golshani, partner at White & Case who acted for Altice France and its shareholders, Jean-Pierre Farges, restructuring partner and head of Gibson Dunn’s restructuring practice in Europe who represented the ad hoc group of secured creditors, and restructuring partners Lionel Spizzichino and Batiste Saint-Guily from Wilkie who represented a group of predominantly unsecured creditors.

In the podcast, we take a look at Altice France’s journey from March 2024 with the earnings call in March 2024 where management caused panic in the market announcing its intention to do discounted transactions to bring leverage down, to creditors forming the first co-op of this size in Europe and finally coming to an agreement in February this year.

We also discuss what the deal means for the restructuring market — will LMEs continue to crop up in Europe or will directors duties put people off risking putting the company at risk? Tune in to find out.

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US tariff policy has unleashed economic uncertainty both domestically and elsewhere. Even after a de-escalation of the worst trade tensions with China, things are still unclear.

In this episode of Cloud 9fin, distressed debt reporter Max Reyes sits down with Canyon Partners opportunistic credit co-heads Chaney Sheffield and Jonathan Barzideh to better understand what unique investments can be made in the current economy and how they’re making sense of the chaos.

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Here at 9fin, we pride ourselves on being private credit enthusiasts. And that means covering all parts of the market, big or small. This includes all the nascent and niche areas like venture debt and tech lending.

In this episode of Cloud 9fin, senior private credit reporter Peter Benson sits down with Ron Daniel, co-founder and CEO of Liquidity Group, a direct lender focused on tech lending. The conversation ranges from the concepts of venture debt and tech lending and how they are structured, to how the current macro environment is affecting the niche are and what the future looks like.

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Generally speaking, lenders don’t lend money to companies with the intention of ending up as equity owners. But things don’t always go to plan. And anyone who’s been there can tell you that the hard truth for certain companies is that no plan could have ever saved it — or as Jon Weber would say: “If the baby’s ugly, the baby’s ugly.”

In this week’s episode of Cloud 9fin, senior private credit reporter Shubham Saharan sits down with Jon Weber and Gisele Everett of restructuring advisory Jon F Weber & Co, to talk about some of the hard truths they confront in their work. Among them, is how to avoid “tissue rejection,” to borrow a term from the medical field, which can occur when integrating new owners into an existing company.

They also discuss a recent article that Jon and Gisele co-authored in the Journal of Corporate Renewal.

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