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Jun
Fireside chat- Financing Challenges and Opportunities - the Sponsor’s Perspective
- What are the key challenges private borrowers are facing in the current macro environment?
- How do you analyze financing opportunities in this high interest rate environment? How do you think about deal structures - bank v. bond v. private credit? In addition to price, what are key factors you consider when selecting a financing source?
- Has the current state of the syndicated market changed your Firm’s view on private credit’s value proposition?
- How receptive have direct lenders been to the new macro environment and pressure to your portco’s models?
- Where do you see deal flow going in the next 6-12 months? What key themes are you watching in Q2 and into 2H24? What challenges and opportunities do you see ahead?
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SpeakersJim Bonetti Managing Director GTCR
Thomas Dobleman Partner KIRKLAND & ELLIS
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Jim joined GTCR in 2017 and is currently a Managing Director of the firm. Prior to joining GTCR, Jim was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the North American Leveraged & Acquisition Finance Group at Morgan Stanley. Jim also functioned as the Head of the North American Syndicate Desk. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he was an analyst in the Equity Capital Markets and Asset Management Groups at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Jim holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration summa cum laude from Northeastern University.
Jim is head of GTCR’s Capital Markets Group. In this role, Jim leads the firm’s capital markets activities as part of the transaction teams and manages key financing and banking relationships.
Thomas Dobleman is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He concentrates his practice principally in the areas of debt financing transactions, with an emphasis on leveraged buyouts, highly leveraged financings, work-outs, restructurings, liability management transactions and other special situation transactions. He represents private equity sponsors, private and public companies, hedge funds and alternative capital sources. The transactions that he has handled include complex secured and unsecured financings, leveraged buy-outs, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, bridge-debt facilities, asset-based financings, first-lien, second-lien, unitranche, mezzanine and subordinated debt financings and have ranged in size from billion dollar transactions to middle market and lower middle market transactions.