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Los Angeles – Austin Financial Services, Inc. (AFS), a leading nationwide provider of asset-based lending (ABL) solutions, announced it has entered into a new strategic joint venture with Stearns Bank, a well-capitalized, employee-owned financial services institution committed to helping small...

Monroe Capital LLC announced it acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support the investment in Innovative Artists Entertainment, LLC ("Innovative Artists") by Coral Tree Partners. Founded in 1982 and...

Argand Partners, LP ("Argand"), the New York-based middle-market private equity firm, with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Miami, today announced a dividend recapitalization of its portfolio company, Sigma Engineered Solutions ("Sigma" or the "Company"), a global supplier...

Baker Tilly and Moss Adams today announced their planned combination to create the sixth largest advisory CPA firm in the US. Expected to close in early June of this year, the combination strengthens the firms' industry specialization, expands geographic reach...

Only two of the ten consumer-related industries are projected to post positive results. The Broadline Retail sector and Hotels, Restaurant & Leisure sector demonstrate the highest estimated earnings growth rates for the quarter at 36.1% and 6.7% respectively, compared to...

NEW YORK — First Citizens Bank announced that its Asset-Based Lending business upsized a revolving credit facility for D.P. Nicoli to $50 million. D.P. Nicoli, a provider of steel plate and trench shoring rental equipment in the Pacific Northwest, Northern...

Compass Lexecon, a subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN), today announced that Faten Sabry has joined the firm as a Senior Managing Director. Dr. Sabry has deep experience in valuation of fixed income securities, derivatives, illiquid assets and litigation...

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that Gabriel Yomi Dabiri has joined the firm and will serve as Global Head of Private Credit and Direct Lending. Mr. Dabiri joins from Polsinelli, where he led the Private Credit and Cross-Border...

MSCI Inc. (NYSE) and Moody's Corporation (NYSE) will jointly create a first-of-its-kind solution to provide independent risk assessments for private credit investments at scale. As the private credit market continues to evolve and grow, the need for consistent standards and...

ICR, a leading strategic communications and advisory firm, announced today that its broker-dealer affiliate, ICR Capital, has hired Kristina Woodhouse and Gian-Marco Frey as Managing Directors in its Convertible and Equity Derivatives Advisory team. Both join from Matthews South and...