US mezzanine: The capital keeps coming

More and more capital is pouring into global junior capital funds, but unitranche and senior lenders are snatching up what might have once been mezz loans.

Once again, the mezzanine debt space has proved wrong the naysayers who foretold its demise. “There was a time in late 2015 when folks were declaring mezzanine dead,” Peter Antoszyk, a partner at law firm Proskauer, told PDI in February. “But it’s clearly not.”

That was then, and as of 27 September, US-focused funds with mezzanine or subordinated debt strategies had raised a total of $15.33