Goldman Sachs MD joins buy side in private credit role
An experienced leveraged finance banker is taking his first buy-side role at a large European direct lender 

Credit funds at a glance (January 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit

Credit Fundraising: mega funds contribute to record-breaking month as volume hits $39bn
The sheer size of the funds raised in November more than compensated for a drop in the number of funds raised as fundraising volume in credit reached $38.9 billion. This beat September by $2.4 billion to make it the most productive month of credit fundraising in 2021

Credit funds at a glance (April 2021)
A round-up of fundraising and people moves

Calpers allocates $3.5 billion to Sixth Street and Goldman Sachs
Californian pension heavyweight Calpers is allocating a whopping $3.5 billion to private credit managers 

Fracking servicer FTS files for chapter 11 protection
Fracking servicer FTS International filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston yesterday. The credit is not widely featured in CLOs with only nine managers holding $47.9 million of FTI’s term loans

Goldman Sachs collects $6.4 billion for opportunistic credit fund
Goldman Sachs’s merchant banking division has collected $6.4 billion from more than 1,500 investors on its inaugural opportunistic credit fund, West Street Strategic Solutions I

LP round up: managers keep fundraising hopes high as GSO targets $7.5 billion for mezz offering
Institutional investors allocated $1.6 billion into credit this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux

GSO makes big hire to co-lead distressed investing
Blackstone's credit platform has appointed an ex-Goldman Sachs official to co-lead its distressed debt business 

Danish pension fund eyes niche credit opportunities
PensionDanmark is preparing for more volatility in 2019 by casting its eye towards niche opportunities in the special situations and distressed debt market. The Copenhagen-based pension fund last month merged its alternatives and private debt platforms

Goldman drops New Mountain and makes a new hire in subadvisor switch-up
The Goldman Sachs Multi-Manager Alternatives fund has switched up its suite of subadvisors, with New Mountain no longer managing event driven and credit strategies for that fund

Credit specialist poaches Goldman Sach's Eric Muller in New York
Credit specialist Oak Hill Advisors has hired New York-based Eric Muller from Goldman Sachs Group, according to a market source

Goldman distressed debt specialist to join HPS in London
London-based Frederick Morris is leaving Goldman Sachs and moving to HPS Investment Partners, Creditflux has learned

Goldman Sachs hires seasoned distressed debt specialist in London
Distressed debt specialist leaves Deutsche Bank after seven years

Jefferies recruits navy seal-turned loan trader from dealer in New York
US brokerage brings out the big guns with hire from US banking giant 

Goldman's co-head of distressed debt leaves for buy side in exodus
Co-head of distressed debt at Goldman moves to the buy side