“Growth and the general outlook have never been stronger,” asserted Blair Jacobson, partner and co-head of European credit at fund manager Ares Management, on the opening panel of this week’s PDI Capital Structure Forum in London.
Stephan Caron of BlackRock and Ben Harrild of BlueBay, who joined Jacobson on the panel, were equally bullish about European private debt prospects – with much of the talk revolving around larger fundraises giving the heavyweights of private debt the ability to write bigger tickets (in the €500 million-€1 billion range) and become a growing source of...
