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Late May Market Update [5/24/24]

June 28, 2024

Quick post on debt markets ahead of Memorial Day weekend.  Our market note on 5/6/24 spoke to overall tone being firm in the credit markets.  This has only become more true over the last three weeks. There has been a…

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Early May Market Post / FGA YTD April 2024 Activity Update [5/6/24]

June 28, 2024

Here at the beginning of May, overall tone is firm in the credit markets. Healthy competition and light supply have resulted in tight credit spreads across institutional, private credit, and pro rata (commercial bank) markets. Absolute cost of debt remains…

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Early March Financing Market Update

March 5, 2024

Our late January call for a lot of forthcoming press about broadly syndicated TLB markets fighting back/retaking share from private credit was very much on target in the large cap space. Private credit spreads have come in to try to close…

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Late January Financing Market Update [SENT 1/29/24]

March 5, 2024

There has been strong risk-on lender sentiment for ‘known quantity’ credit across multiple debt markets in early 2024. Broadly syndicated TLB market – healthy demand for repricings, refinancings, and recapitalizations for larger tranche existing issuers that are performing. Think up to…

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Year End Market Update / Early 2024 Outlook

January 7, 2024

The ~10 year leveraged finance banker in me wanted to write a long form end of year market wrap packed with charts, quantitative detail, and predications headed into 2024. I’m not convinced it would matter for most Fountain Gate Advisors…

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Late October Financing Market Update

October 23, 2023

Happy late October everyone! See below for Fountain Gate Advisors’ latest pulse on the credit markets across the various pockets of debt capital available to middle market borrowers.  Banks Lots on inward focus at the regulated banks.  The ‘held to…

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Post Labor Day Market Update

September 5, 2023

Welcome back to the desk post-Labor Day. Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. See below for the Fountain Gate Advisors’ latest pulse on the credit markets across the various pockets of debt capital available to middle market borrowers.  Fountain…

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Fountain Gate Advisors 2Q23 Quarterly Newsletter

June 15, 2023

It has been a blast getting the firm off the ground this quarter.  I appreciate all of the people that have made time for conversations, been generous with connections and intros, and very much appreciate the initial clients that have…

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