Direct lending funds stalk bigger targets but credit cycle will be vicious

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Direct lending funds stalk bigger targets but credit cycle will be vicious

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Europe’s vibrant direct lending market, in which specialist funds lend privately to companies, often without bank arrangers, is swallowing bigger and bigger deals. But the market is heading for trouble when the credit cycle turns, participants warn. Max Bower and Jon Hay report.

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