NEW YORK N.Y. (26 July, 2022) – Leading independent credit research firm, CreditSights, Inc., announced that LevFin Insights’ highly regarded news coverage will now be available in combination with CreditSights’ unparalleled fixed income research to cover the growing number of special situations across sectors and geographies.
The combined team will be providing market-leading research and news on the most important restructurings, liability management exercises, distressed exchanges, change-of-control scenarios, covenant breaches, up tiering and drop-down transactions.
Today, most of the important developments for the largest workouts and restructurings happen out-of-court and require a detailed understanding of company and industry dynamics, credit documents, and game theory. CreditSights’ Special Situations service will equip users with the unmatched expertise of 100+ dedicated sector analysts. A seasoned team of special situations analysts with 80+ years of experience from top firms such as Aurelius Capital, Elliott Management, Ellington, Halcyon, are joined by best-in-class leveraged finance attorneys specializing in covenant analysis, and a team of proactive enterprise reporters.
The team’s special situations coverage currently includes over 30 credits on the fundamental research side and more than 80 credits from a news perspective, with plans to expand coverage of both to 80 and 150 names, respectively.
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About CreditSights, Inc.
CreditSights empowers nearly 20,000 financial professionals among the world’s largest institutions with the credit-risk tools, independent research and comprehensive market insights they need to make well-informed credit-risk decisions. Setting the standard for global credit research since 2000, CreditSights provides timely data, news, recommendations and unbiased analysis of the investment-grade and high yield debt securities of more than 1,200 issuers around the world. CreditSights delivers this content through innovative platforms, enabling market participants to know more, risk better and ultimately create value.
About LevFin Insights
LevFin Insights provides comprehensive real-time news and commentary for leveraged loan and high-yield bond market investors. Started by a team of respected veteran journalists and information professionals, LFI uses its deep network of relationships to provide color, context, and forward perspectives on individual deals and key trends in the market. LFI was an affiliate of Fulcrum Financial Data LLC, acquired by Fitch Group in 2018, along with Covenant Review and CapitalStructure.
Contact:
CreditSights: Simon Barrell, +1 646 582 3498, simon.barrell@fitchsolutions.com
