Profiles

Macquarie Expansion Starts in High Yield

Macquarie Group, one of Australia’s largest commercial banks, is the latest foreign institution building an investment banking presence on Wall Street—and in this case, much of the focus will be on leveraged finance...

DebtXplained Drills Down into the Details

Stephen Mostyn-Williams, founder and principal of law and advisory firm smwlaw and a well-known figure in the European leveraged finance world, is concerned about the European market. Since high yield bonds have become the name of the game...

Getting Edgy at Edgeview

Weeks into CIT Group's restructuring, professionals at the finance company's middle-market investment bank boutique are still wondering about their fate...

Toys R Us Taps HY Market for CMBS Refi

Toys R Us made an interesting financing move this week in the form of an upsized bond deal. The toy retailer issued high yield bonds in order to refinance two real estate loans...

Courting Investors with Lawsuit Finance Issues

Not many subsectors of the financial services industry thrive during an economic downturn, but the recession has actually helped one area—litigation finance...

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