Blackstone Credit 

Blackstone Credit’s European private credit team has committed €6.9 billion in 2022 to new businesses and add-on financings. This is one of the strongest deployment periods in the 16-year history of its European private credit business, despite a challenging macro environment. As volatility and economic uncertainty largely shuttered capital markets new issuance, private credit has become a vital source of financing, especially for private equity sponsors. As a result, Blackstone Credit’s traditional calling cards of certainty and speed have enabled it to step into increasingly larger scale transactions. This is illustrated by an €320 million average investment size, with €1.2 billion being Blackstone Credit’s largest commitment in a single transaction in Europe in 2022. Blackstone Credit’s 70+ strong private credit team in Europe has been active across the continent and throughout the cycle with a thematic investment overlay focusing on sectors benefiting from long term, secular growth. 

KKR

KKR is a leading, large-scale direct lender in Europe. We believe that our origination platform is best in class, built upon our close relationships with top tier sponsors and advisors, alongside our incumbency as lender to hundreds of companies. We are focused on upper middle-market to large cap borrowers (with EBITDA €50 million+) where we seek scaled, proven businesses, with solid fundamentals, high revenue visibility and strong cash flow conversion. In 2022, our European Direct Lending team signed 19 deals with borrowers that had a weighted average EBITDA of over €180 million. We are a team of credit specialists with deep experience investing up and down the capital structure, and across cycles. Our underwriting process and our hands-on approach to portfolio management and monitoring are robust and consistent. We believe this allows us to be highly selective before executing with the speed and flexibility to be a trusted, deliverable lender. 

MV Credit

MV Credit is a £multi-billion fund manager focused on European investments and is managed by a small team of 66. Investments are channelled primarily in the Health and IT sectors. Whether it is for senior or subordinated lending, investors, sponsors, and borrowers often turn to the team at MV Credit as a partner of choice for large cap lending.  

Founded in 2000, MV Credit has one of the most experienced and cohesive teams in the European private credit field. It is this experience across multiple cycles, which has allowed MV Credit to successfully navigate its portfolios through recent and ongoing market volatility.  

Finally, MV Credit is proud to be a leader on diversity in private markets having built a team consisting of 20 nationalities with over 50% of staff being women.