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Bain Capital’s private credit group acted as lead lender and administrative agent for a $250 million senior credit facility for Playfly Sports a revenue maximization company and portfolio company of Access Holdings. The financing will support Playfly’s continued growth. “We...

Driven by accelerated growth, a Houston-based company providing transportation in the energy infrastructure space for sand processing and crude oil required increased capital capacity just as its lender capped its facility and adopted a more conservative risk posture and began...

Assembled Brands, an asset-based lender for CPG businesses, closed a new asset-backed line of credit for Laoban, a CPG brand bringing Asian dumplings, bao buns and lo mein to freezer aisles nationwide. Coming off an 8x growth trajectory in 2025...

Horizon Technology Finance, an affiliate of Monroe Capital, provided a $15 million senior credit facility to Bioness Medical, with an initial $10 million funded at closing, and up to $5 million available to support Bioness’s continued growth. “Providing flexible growth...

PlainsCapital Bank added Ted Lane tp its Dallas lending team as executive vice president of commercial banking. With more than 35 years of banking experience, Lane will focus on developing commercial banking relationships across North Texas, with an emphasis on...

Latham & Watkins added Grace Huang and Edward Freeman as partners in the Hong Kong office. Huang will join the capital markets practice, while Freeman will join the M&A and private equity practice. “We are delighted to welcome Grace and...

Private credit executives who a year ago were focused on new deal flow are now bracing for geopolitical shocks and rising corporate defaults, according to a new survey from SRS Acquiom. The SRS Acquiom Barometer's "2026 Credit Markets Pulse" report,...

Tariff payments made by midsize U.S. companies have pulled back from their October 2025 high but remain more than twice pre-2025 levels, according to a new report from the JPMorgan Chase Institute. The report, "Tracking International Payments: How Are Midsize...

Hope Bancorp’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Bank of Hope, has received all regulatory approvals required to complete the previously announced acquisition of the commercial banking unit of SMBC MANUBANK, a wholly owned subsidiary of SMBC Americas and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)....

Peapack-Gladstone Financial and Peapack Private Bank & Trust opened its newly completed Garden City office. Having established a presence in Garden City, Peapack Private now welcomes clients to its permanent office, designed to reflect the relationship-focused experience the bank defines...