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FundraisingPrivate debt fundraising
picks up in Q3.
Funds in Market Private debt funds in market
are seeking an aggregate
$117bn.
Investors in Private DebtDirect lending funds are
likely to be the most sought-
after strategy in the next 12
months.
Fund Performance and Dry PowderEurope-focused dry powder
has increased by 66% since
December 2014.
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Twenty-seven private debt funds reached a fi nal close in Q3 2015, managing to secure a total of $19.3bn in commitments globally. The private debt industry has continued to prosper in North America, once again supported by strong direct lending fundraising fi gures. Europe also had a successful quarter in terms of fundraising, with the aggregate capital secured by funds focused on the region surpassing the amount of capital raised by North America-focused funds.
It seems institutional investors are showing a healthy appetite for senior secured and unitranche structures within direct lending, as mandates continue to widen and include private lending vehicles. A total of $9.0bn was secured across 11 direct lending vehicles globally in Q3, more than twice the total amount raised within mezzanine, which closed the quarter with $4.0bn across fi ve vehicles.
The fi nal quarter of 2015 could see an interest rate adjustment that would affect the near-term future of private debt, according to the most recent commentary by US regulators. Though most private lending vehicles use a fl oating rate, an increase in interest rates would be the fi rst step in the revitalization of traditional fi xed income assets. That said, it is certainly clear at this point in the game that private debt has carved out a substantial hold in institutional portfolios as a yield-producing asset class that should continue to see nominal growth, expansion and acceptance.
We hope you fi nd this report useful, and welcome any feedback you may have. For more information, please visit www.preqin.com or contact [email protected].
Direct Lending : How to Capitalize on New Opportunities - Tikehau IM 3
Fundraising in Q3 2015 5
Funds in Market 6
Institutional Investors in Private Debt 8
Fund Performance and Dry Powder 10
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Direct Lending : How toCapitalize on New Opportunities
Cécile Mayer-Lévi & Jean-Baptiste Feat, Co-Heads of Private Debt, Tikehau IM
How much opportunity is there for alternative lenders within Europe given the difference in regulation from country to country?
Alternative fi nancing solutions are progressively expanding throughout Europe to become one of the mainstream options offered to corporates and private equity fi rms to access long-term debt fi nancing.
The local specifi cities per country, in particular in terms of legal framework for lenders’ protection, have paved the way for local private debt markets. Depending on the size of fi nancing, alternative lenders could be split into two main categories: (1) global fi rms with coverage out of London and (2) local deal making presence in several key European countries.
Due to structural shifts in regulation and retrenchment from banks, alternative fi nancing is growing at a fast pace. The UK remains the largest market in Europe, followed by France. Alternative fi nancing encompasses two main categories of fi nancing: direct lending for SME corporates and acquisition fi nancing for LBO.
The search for long-term fi nancing at attractive conditions has opened a new market for bonds issued by small- to mid-sized companies. Regulation has softened to allow institutional investors to directly support SMEs in the absence of rating or listing.
What we’ve recently observed is that regulation in some countries, such as Italy, has really made progress both from a regulatory and fi scal standpoint, hence opening the private debt market. This situation is particularly true for bonds with the emergence of Mini Bonds. Despite the current QE that partially slowed down the move, we clearly note that government-based initiatives generated a structural shift in regulation in favour of alternative lenders.
France is the second most important direct lending market in Europe after the UK. France is also a good example of regulatory progress given the recent change in regulation to allow insurance groups to invest in direct lending. Furthermore, the French sovereign wealth fund, Caisse des Depots et Consignation (CDC), with the funding of several insurance groups, backed two initiatives, NOVO and NOVI, to fi nance French SMEs that are not under private equity ownership. Tikehau was selected for both NOVO and NOVI mandates. This is a good example of partnerships between the State, insurance companies and alternative lending asset managers/direct lending fi rms. These mandates are a unique opportunity for Tikehau to address new fi nancing needs outside of the private equity sphere while developing strong corporate driven fi nancing capabilities.
Finally, we have adopted a specifi c strategy of being a European player with strong local presence. Our team of 18 professionals split between our offi ces in London, Paris, Milan and Brussels
are experienced in covering the specifi cities of local execution including the regulation aspect of each country. We believe it is a competitive advantage as a European player to have this in-depth knowledge and of course, we do have in-house the experience of dealing with restructuring should it be necessary.
As direct lending has seen exponential growth in the last few years within Europe, are limited partners/allocators becoming more familiar with the practice?
In our experience, insurance groups (representing over 70% of our AUM) are more and more attracted by direct lending/private debt mainly due to the limited fi xed income alternatives in the current QE environment, the fi t of the cash fl ow profi le with their Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA), the limited volatility due to the private nature of the instrument (no mark-to-market), and the Solvency II “effi ciency” – the capital charge is around 20% according to our calculations and apparently lower for large insurance groups with their own internal model.
In addition, public pension plans have become more familiar with direct lending as it suits their overall asset allocation. Direct lending investments are long term, so they match pension funds’ liabilities and offer very attractive regular returns with a yearly coupon (paid quarterly in the case of Tikehau) and is particularly attractive given the current low rate environment.
Many of the deals in the direct lending industry occur within the private equity space. Are you able to source deals outside the sponsor environment?
In 2013, Tikehau IM was awarded the NOVO 2 mandate of €355mn and the NOVI 1 mandate of €290mn in 2015. Both mandate initiatives were led by the French state through the CDC. This initiative has been supported by 24 institutional investors (of which three are pension funds). The common objective is to provide “multi-funding” mainly via bullet debt fi nancing and equity capital over six to eight years for French small- to mid-cap sized corporates (sales: €30-1,500mn).
Support for initiatives like NOVO and NOVI has boosted the development of the corporate direct lending market. We believe that there is a real need for alternative fi nancing sources in this market but it takes time as entrepreneurs gradually reach the fi nancial sponsor level of fi nancial education. Indeed, we have already structured more than 20 corporate transactions with innovative and tailor-made structures that match perfectly the needs of these entrepreneurs.
Apart from European banking and investment community sourcing, Tikehau IM benefi ts from a strong and diversifi ed sourcing network across Europe. This capability relies on the company’s shareholders, partners and operating partners, as well as advisors to the Tikehau group. These individuals are all prominent fi gures in European business circles and bring to the
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table their strong relationships across industries and the fi nancial sector. We also benefi t from being independent of any bank or private equity fi rm and this opens us to a greater amount of confl ict-free deal fl ow.
How responsive have corporates been to taking on a non-bank lender?
Small- to medium-sized corporates do not have the same access to fi nancing as large corporates. Thus, having an alternative fi nancing source is clearly attractive and safe from a diversifi cation point of view. One of the main and recurrent reasons for corporates to involve a direct lending player is to diversify its sources of fi nancing and no longer depend on banks which have been volatile in their lending policies and limited to providing fi nancing with maturity under fi ve years. Furthermore, fi rms with a one-stop shop offering can tailor fi nancing solutions for corporates – this is the case of Tikehau as we can provide senior, unitranche, mezzanine and PIK/junior debt.
From the point of view of the corporate, it is important to have a fi nancing tailored to suit the needs of the business. For example, unitranche can be appropriate for a capital intensive or acquisition driven company and thus direct all free cash fl ow to the real development of the company. In addition, corporate borrowers can benefi t from maturity extensions with non-bank lenders such as Tikehau.
Finally, our current European deal fl ow of €1.3bn of opportunities under review shows the strength of the direct lending market and interest of corporates.
As a large and well-positioned player in the credit space, have you been able to leverage any other parts of your business to build your mid-market lending business?
Our fi rm was created by two entrepreneurs, Antoine Flamarion and Mathieu Chabran, from the fi nance industry who, together with Tikehau managers, remain majority shareholders. They brought on board as investors key institutional fi rms such as Amundi Asset Management and Arkea, in addition to partners such as Christian de Labriffe (ex-senior partner of Rothschild and Lazard) and more recently, Jean-Pierre Mustier, previously Deputy General Manager of UniCredit. Our co-heads of direct lending, Cécile Mayer-Levi (28 years’ experience in the private debt sector and ex-head of Ardian private debt) and Jean-Baptiste Feat, have a wealth of information and networks in the debt market. The private debt team includes local deal teams
in Brussels, Milan and London led by senior professionals with local networks.
There are strong cross-fertilization synergies with our High Yield (HY) research team: we had been approached by a corporate looking for a private deal, a couple of months after they had failed to tap the HY market. The fact that our HY team had done extensive research on the name enabled us to rapidly reach a good level of credit analysis.
Another example, frequent in the current environment, is for us to take part with our loan funds in the leveraged loan syndication (TLB tranche) of private debt opportunities that we like, which could be explored in a fi rst step as a direct lending opportunity and could be transformed in a shared leveraged transaction. This is a way for us to leverage the extensive amount of credit analysis performed.
Finally, our European CLO (€354mn raised in July 2015), under the leadership of veteran investor Debra Andersen, gives us deeper visibility into deal fl ow and in general on the European debt market.
There has been an increase in bank lending recently. Have you found this to be the case and has it affected your approach and deal fl ow?
First of all, we view banks as partners and not competitors. We provide a fi nancing alternative to banks who continue to maintain a corporate relationship with our issuers/companies.
The ongoing competition in the market from other direct lending fi rms is healthy and proves the sustainability and growth of the market.
We continue to remain selective and focused on sourcing investments with the appropriate risk/return criteria, good business model and strong management teams. Furthermore, we have chosen to remain focused on managing medium-sized funds, which means we are not obliged to “buy the market”. Proof of this strategy is the fi fth deal we signed in Belgium as sole arranger and unitranche fi nancing of Pennel and Flipo for our latest fund “Tikehau Direct Lending III”. This deal was proprietary and also a primary LBO. It fulfi lls all the criteria we look for in an investment: strong management team leading a growing and innovative business, with strong potential for additional international development, and from a transaction point of view, reasonable leverage with sound covenant coverage.
Tikehau IM
Established in 2006 as part of the Tikehau Group (AUM: €6.5bn), Tikehau IM is a specialized asset management company with a focus on:• Financing for European corporates: > Direct lending and senior loans expertise with €2.5bn in commitments; > High yield expertise with high-conviction management and concentrated portfolios (AUM: €1.6bn); > European CLO raised in July 2015 (€354m) by the Group • Real estate expertise • Innovative balanced & equity investment solutions, capitalizing on permanent Equity/Opportunistic Investment expertise
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Fundraising in Q3 2015
Q3 2015 saw 27 private debt funds reach a fi nal close, securing an aggregate $19.3bn in commitments (Fig. 1). Although the same number of funds closed in Q2 2015, aggregate capital raised increased compared to the $17.8bn that was raised last quarter.
Direct lending accounted for the highest amount of capital raised in Q3 2015, as well as representing the highest number of funds closed (Fig. 2). Interestingly, special situations vehicles overtook distressed debt in terms of number of fund closures this quarter compared with last quarter.
North America again accounted for the highest number of funds closed during the quarter, with 14 funds securing an aggregate $7.9bn (Fig. 3). However, for the fi rst time this year, Europe-focused funds secured more capital than North America-focused vehicles, with $10.3bn raised in capital commitments. This is the result of the two largest funds to close in Q3 having a focus on Europe. Intermediate Capital Group’s Senior Partners II, a direct lending fund, and ICG Europe Fund II, a mezzanine fund, both raised over $3bn each (Fig. 4).
Fig. 1. Global Quarterly Private Debt Fundraising, Q1 2010 - Q3 2015
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Fig. 4: 10 Largest Private Debt Funds Closed in Q3 2015
Fund Firm Fund Type Fund Size ($mn) Geographic Focus
Senior Debt Partners II Intermediate Capital Group Direct Lending 3,400 Europe
ICG Europe Fund VI Intermediate Capital Group Mezzanine 3,300 Europe
AXA Private Debt III Ardian Direct Lending 2,200 Europe
Castlelake IV Castlelake Distressed Debt 1,900 US
Clearlake Capital Partners IV Clearlake Capital Group Special Situations 1,400 US
Athyrium Opportunities Fund II Athyrium Capital Management Venture Debt 1,200 US
Chambers Energy Capital III Chambers Energy Capital Direct Lending 900 US
Permira Credit Solutions Fund II Permira Debt Managers Direct Lending 900 Europe
Golub Capital Partners IX International Golub Capital Direct Lending 600 US
ADV Opportunities Fund I ADV Partners Special Situations 500 Asia
Source: Preqin Private Debt Online
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Funds in Market
At the start of Q4 2015, there were 224 private debt funds in market targeting an aggregate $117bn in capital commitments. Direct lending funds represent the largest proportion of these vehicles, both in terms of the number of funds and the amount of capital being sought, as shown in Fig. 1. Mezzanine and distressed debt funds account for 26% and 15% of funds in market by number respectively. While there are fewer distressed debt funds in market than mezzanine funds, the average target size of distressed debt funds is signifi cantly higher, with these funds accounting for 36% of total capital being targeted.
North America-focused private debt funds in market continue to be the most numerous and seek the most capital (Fig. 2), while the amount of capital targeted by Europe-focused funds is less than at the start of Q3.
Forty-four percent of private debt funds currently in market have been seeking capital for a year or less, whereas at the other end of the scale, 30% have been in market for over two years (Fig. 3).
Fig. 1: Breakdown of Private Debt Funds in Market by Fund Type
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Fig. 4: 10 Largest Private Debt Funds Currently in Market
Fund Firm Fund Type Target Size (mn) Geographic Focus
Oaktree Opportunities Fund Xb Oaktree Capital Management Distressed Debt 7,000 USD US
KKR Special Situations Fund II KKR Distressed Debt 3,500 USD Europe
Cerberus Institutional Partners VI Cerberus Capital Management Distressed Debt 3,000 USD US
Crescent Mezzanine Partners VII Crescent Capital Group Mezzanine 3,000 USD US
Oaktree Opportunities Fund X Oaktree Capital Management Distressed Debt 3,000 USD US
Sankaty Credit Opportunities VI Sankaty Advisors Distressed Debt 3,000 USD US
MHR Institutional Partners IV MHR Fund Management Distressed Debt 2,750 USD US
GSO Energy Select Opportunities Fund GSO Capital Partners Distressed Debt 2,500 USD US
Ares Capital Europe III Ares Management Direct Lending 2,000 EUR Europe
LCM Credit Opportunities Fund III LCM Partners Distressed Debt 1,500 EUR Europe
Source: Preqin Private Debt Online
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Institutional Investors in Private Debt
Preqin’s Private Debt Online currently tracks 1,693 active investors in the asset class. Fig. 1 shows that the 10 largest investors in private debt have an aggregate current allocation to the asset class of over $70bn, four of which are US-based public pension funds.
Fig. 2 shows that 68% of investors will consider making commitments to direct lending funds over the next 12 months, a slight increase from the proportion seen in Q2 (65%). Mezzanine and distressed debt remain the second and third most sought-after private debt fund types in Q3, with 62% and 55% of investors looking to commit to these fund types respectively in the year ahead. Private debt funds of funds will be targeted by just 9% of investors in the next 12 months, while a similarly small proportion (4%) will target venture debt.
As shown by Fig. 3, Europe has overtaken North America to become the most sought-after region for investment in private debt; 73% of investors are considering investing in funds
focusing on this region over the next 12 months. North America remains, however, a common choice. Emerging markets have also experienced a surge in interest, with a quarter of investors exhibiting an interest in the region, up 10 percentage points from Q3 2014.
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Fig. 2: Strategies Targeted in the Next 12 Months by Private Debt Investors
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Fig. 1: 10 Largest Investors in Private Debt Globally by Current Allocation
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TIAA-CREF 25.9 Private Sector Pension Fund US
Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) 6.0 Government Agency Netherlands
Partners Group 6.0 Private Equity Fund of Funds Manager Switzerland
African Development Bank 5.3 Bank Ivory Coast
New York State Teachers' Retirement System 5.2 Public Pension Fund US
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) 5.0 Public Pension Fund US
KB Insurance 4.8 Insurance Company South Korea
Florida State Board of Administration 4.4 Public Pension Fund US
New Jersey State Investment Council 4.1 Public Pension Fund US
IFM Investors 4.1 Asset Manager Australia
Source: Preqin Private Debt Online
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Fund Performance and Dry Powder
Fig. 1 displays the median proportions of committed capital called up by the end of the fi rst and second investment years, among all private debt funds for vintage years 2006-2014. It shows that post-2008, the median proportion of capital called up during the fi rst two years of investment is lower than before the fi nancial crisis. This could be explained by recent fundraising success pushing up dry powder levels at a faster rate than available deals in a competitive marketplace. Dry powder now stands at a record $191bn, up 37% since December 2014, which may place pressure on fund managers to put this capital to work.
As shown in Fig. 2, direct lending funds account for the largest proportion of dry powder at $65bn, up 52% since December 2014. Distressed debt funds have also witnessed a notable increase in the amount of dry powder available to them, with the fi gure currently standing at $56bn, while mezzanine funds hold $46bn.
Europe-focused private debt funds have seen dry powder increase by 66% since December 2014 to reach $61bn (Fig. 3). Dry powder available to North America-focused funds currently stands at $118bn, an increase of 25% compared to December 2014.
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Fig. 2: Private Debt Dry Powder by Fund Type, December 2006 - September 2015
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Preqin Private Debt Online
With global coverage and detailed information on all aspects of the private debt asset class, Preqin’s industry-leading Private Debt Online service keeps you up-to-date on all the latest developments in the private debt universe.
Source new investors for funds
Find the most relevant investors, with access to detailed profi les for over 1,600 institutional investors actively investing in private debt, including information on their current fund searches and mandates, direct contact information and sample investments.
Identify potential investment opportunities
View in-depth profi les for over 1,800 unlisted private debt funds, including information on investment strategy, geographic focus, fundraising progress, service providers used and sample investors.
Find active fund managers in private debt
Search for fi rms actively targeting private debt investments. View information on key contacts, fi rm fundraising and performance history, and applied strategies of the fi rm.
Analyze the latest private debt fundraising activity
See which fi rms are currently on the road raising a private debt fund and which will be coming to market soon. Analyze fundraising over time by fund type, manager location and regional focus, and conduct competitor analysis.
Benchmark performance
Identify which fund managers have the best track records, with performance benchmarks for private debt funds and performance details for over 650 individual named funds.
View detailed profi les of service providers
Search for administrators, placement agents and law fi rms active in the private debt industry by type and location of funds, and the managers they work with.
Find out how Preqin’s range of private debt products and services can help you:
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The Q3 2015Preqin Quarterly Update:
Private Debt
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