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Global consulting firm J.S. Held revealed the “Lending Climate in America” survey results from Phoenix Management, highlighting concern regarding the impact of the presidential election and the timing and magnitude of future Federal Reserve interest rate reductions.

Cerberus Capital Management, a global company in alternative investing, acquired Landmark Structures, a full-service provider of water storage solutions in North America. Houlihan Lokey served as debt capital markets advisor and Dechert acted as legal counsel to Cerberus.

BlackRock released its annual Private Markets Outlook mapping out how the sector, spanning geographies and asset classes, will evolve in the year ahead. The report covers trends in private debt, infrastructure, private equity and real estate.

B. Riley Securities, a middle market investment bank, served as sole bookrunner to Roman DBDR Acquisition II on its $200 million initial public offering.

Cervano Capital officially launched as an independent sponsor focused on investments in the lower middle market across business services, industrial, technology and consumer sectors.

VSS Capital Partners, a private investment firm, completed a new platform investment in Lumenci, a full-service intellectual property consulting firm, in association with Century Equity Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm.

Sallyport Commercial Finance provided a $750,000 full notification factoring facility for a client in the disposal services industry that offers a range of waste management and recycling solutions in the multi-residential space.

Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist of Nuveen, was recognized among the 2024 “Best Places to Work in Money Management” by Pensions & Investments magazine.

Bond traders are increasingly speculating that the Federal Reserve will enact more significant interest-rate cuts in 2025 than current market forecasts suggest, according to a report by Bloomberg.

While virtually half of respondents continue to express high levels of concern over key risk management and regulatory compliance obligations in the U.S. banking industry, those concerns are lower than in previous years, according to a recent Wolters Kluwers survey.