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Portability to Pipeline: M&A and Loan Markets with Investcorp
The LFI Levered Lines Podcast
29 minutes
3 weeks ago
Portability to Pipeline: M&A and Loan Markets with Investcorp
Season 2, Episode 4
On this episode of LFI Levered Lines, host Tom Davidson speaks with Investcorp Global Co-Head of Liquid Credit Corey Geis about today’s US loan market, CLO mechanics, and navigating spread compression. Corey shares takeaways from bank credit training, global trading, and building Marble Point through its sale to Investcorp; the internal leadership handoff; and staying active with refinancings, resets, and selective new issues. They discuss the BSL–private credit pendulum, a modest but healthy market pullback, and how rate cuts and narrowing bid-ask gaps could revive LBO/M&A. They balance macro with “read the docs,” governance diligence informed by First Brands, and early action on LMEs and tail risk. The conversation covers portability provisions, why lenders prefer change-of-control reevaluation, and CLO equity math when assets price at SOFR+150–175 - plus how refinancings and resets offset asset spread tightening and extend reinvestment.