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Monthly snapshot view on loan pricing and terms.

Quarterly round-up of distressed portfolio companies owned by private equity firms, including industry sector breakdowns, distressed ratings and defaults.

Legal advisers, ranked by total deal value and by number of deals, with breakdowns by transaction size, sector and region.

Financial advisers, ranked by total deal value and by number of deals, with breakdowns by transaction size, sector and region.

Longtime healthcare executive Jim Momtazee is departing KKR more than two decades after joining the global buyout firm, according to people familiar with the matter.

PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Crestline Investors appointed Michael Aingorn a managing director. He previously was a partner at American Industrial Partners. BelHealth Investment Partners promoted Jonathan Spero to vice president from senior associate. He joined the healthcare-focused PE firm in 2015. Siris hired Tracy Harris as a partner in IR and product strategy. She will help manage the firm’s relationships with LPs and prospective investors […]

PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Permira hired Tom Eggemeier as a partner. He’d been president of Genesys. Graycliff Partners named Gregory Olson an operating partner. Olson is former chief development officer at Ichor Systems. Cimbria Capital named Richard Seline a senior adviser. Currently, he is a managing partner at Resiliency Capital Partners and executive director and senior adviser for AccelerateH2O. Actis named Maureen E. O’Toole a managing director, leading the investor development […]

PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Macquarie Capital named Mark Buchanan managing director and head of North American family office coverage. He’s a former managing director at BMO Financial Group. Macquarie also appointed Mark Padjen senior vice president. Carlyle Group: Pooja Goyal joins as partner and head of the renewable and sustainable energy team. Goyal most recently headed the alternative-energy investing group at Goldman Sachs. General Atlantic: Michael […]

Marvin and Ceib co-founded Instamed in 2004 Instamed has raised $134.2 mln in VC funding: Crunchbase New Mountain is considering selling Equian By Luisa Beltran and Sarah Pringle Private equity is still in the running for Instamed, the healthcare payments company that’s up for sale, sources said. Final bids for the Philadelphia company are due […]

FTV investment dates to February 2016 VPay: payments for health and dental plans, TPAs, workers comp and auto insurers FTV Fund V collected $850 mln in September 2016 By Sarah Pringle and Luisa Beltran FTV Capital is preparing to launch a sales process for VPay, whose e-payment services focus on medical providers and auto-repair shops, […]