Middle Market and Private Credit Market Trends

Are you working on middle market loans? Check out this new practice note, by Patrick Yingling and Jared Zajac of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, that identifies and discusses trends in the syndicated loan and private credit middle market from late 2022 and the first half of 2023, including the impacts general economic forces and geopolitical tensions had on the loan market, the market’s reaction to the cessation of LIBOR, and general loan terms in middle market and private credit transactions.

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