Deal Flow In Loans Is Usually Slow in Q1
This supposed loan slump is looking more and more like a seasonal phenomenon to me, rather than a sign of the apocalypse. We have seen a fair amount of handwringing in 2011 about the slowdown in lending deal flow since the first of the year, both by Ron Kahn of Lincoln International here at peHUB and also by Randy Schwimmer of Churchill Financial. My colleague Bernard Vaughan has also written about the same issue at sister site Buyoutsnews.com. (Subscribers can see that report here.) The concern is that, apart from refinancings and recapitalizations, which have been booming, the volume of fresh deal flow in the leveraged lending market has been disappointing ...
10 March 2011•2 mins read
