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Call for Nominations: Deadline is Feb. 7 for M&A Mid-Market Awards. We've named the 2020 Most Influential Women, including William Blair's Shay Brokemond. What's ahead for M&A in 2020? We ask bankers from Stifel, Piper Jaffray, William Blair. In fundraising news, Pathway Capital has raised its second private credit fund.

Often dismissed by bankers as winning work mostly on its own deals and not often in the lead role, KKR says more than half of the debt deals it manages are now done for third parties.

Call for Nominations: Deadline is Feb. 7 for M&A Mid-Market Awards. We've named the 2020 Most Influential Women. What's ahead for M&A in 2020? We ask bankers from Piper Jaffray, William Blair. In deal news: Aflac buys stake in mid-market lender Varagon, plus more M&A news.

The loan the largest-ever bridge loan in the technology sector, surpassing IBM's $20 billion financing in 2018 for its acquisition of Red Hat.

Arizona’s $41 billion State Retirement System is looking to dedicate one out of every six dollars it manages to direct lending -- more than five times the industry average -- in a move some see as a harbinger of what’s to come for the booming asset class.

Investors have plowed hundreds of billions of dollars into private debt funds in recent years, lured by premiums that are more than five percentage points higher than competing public debt.

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Demand for CLOs drives Monroe to raise new fund. Alpine caps seventh fund. Advent, Pike Street, Tailwind, make deals. Bain Capital's Deval Patrick joins crowded 2020 Democratic presidential campaign.