middle market

“Honestly, it's why we like to be in the middle market because there's way, way, way less of that in the middle market. We are oftentimes the only secondary buyer in a credit we're working on. We're certainly the early Identifier and early adopter of that credi…”

“Fresh money opportunities in private debt are really interesting, because rates have gone up, and there's a dearth of capital, particularly in the middle market. The problem with that is that the economy can't sustain itself on loans at 15%. It just won't work…”

“Well, I submit to you today that that biggest pool of high quality businesses on low multiples, great entry points, exists in Japan in the middle markets. It's basically a US private equity playbook that exists for weird quirks of how the Japanese financial sy…”

“If you look at the entities that were dominant in the middle market 10, 15 years ago, They don't play in the middle market anymore. As their AUM, their capital base has grown, deployment pressures become so significant that they've had to find more efficient w…”

“They've been operating in the middle market space of private equity, which the middle market's a broad definition of ten million to a billion dollars of revenues, private companies, there's 200,000 of them.”