Direct Lending & Private Credit Lending

DealCatalyst U.S. CLO Industry Awards (2026)

Private Debt Investor (PDI) Global Awards (2023 & 2025)

Blue Owl Credit, Blackstone Alternative Credit, and Ares Capital on financing for Permira’s $7.2 billion take-private acquisition of Squarespace, a leading website design platform

Financing sources for Warburg Pincus and its portfolio company, Service Express, in a majority investment in Park Place Technologies, a global provider of data center services

Financing sources for TPG’s $2.2 billion take-private acquisition of AvidXchange, a leading provider of accounts payable automation software

Financing sources for Centerbridge Partners’ $2 billion take-private acquisition of MeridianLink, a leading provider of modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies

A club of private credit lenders for Thoma Bravo’s approximately $2 billion take-private acquisition of Olo, an open SaaS platform for restaurants

Financing sources for Thoma Bravo’s $1.4 billion take-private acquisition of PROS Holdings, a leading provider of SaaS solutions for shopping, selling and commerce

Lenders in connection with financing for TPG’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Sabre Corp.’s hospitality software platform SynXis

Guggenheim Investments on $235 million in new private credit financing for Wire 3, a Florida-based 100% fiber internet provider

Advised the lenders in Australian software company Simpro Group’s strategic acquisition of a majority interest in BigChange, a U.K.-based job management software company

Financing sources in connection with the debt and equity financing to fund Vector Capital’s Australian take-private acquisition of Bigtincan, a premier provider of sales enablement software and AI solutions

Syndicate of 19 private credit lenders, led by Sixth Street – the largest in the private debt market at the time of closing – on the financing for Thoma Bravo’s $8 billion take-private acquisition of Coupa Software, a cloud-based supply chain, finance, and procurement platform

Syndicate of 6 private credit lenders, led by Ares and KKR Credit, on the financing for Legends’ $2.3 billion acquisition of ASM Global, a worldwide live entertainment venue manager

Ares Capital, together with a club of 31 additional private credit lenders, on more than $5 billion of senior secured financing for the acquisition by Auctane (f/k/a Stamps.com), a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, of Worldwide Express (WWEX) to form ShipStation Global, an integrated logistics platform for end-to-end global fulfillment solutions. Paul Hastings previously advised the private credit lenders on the financing of Thoma Bravo’s $6.6 billion acquisition of Auctane (f.k.a. Stamps.com), which was the largest unitranche debt financing of its kind at the time of closing.