Defaults on leveraged loans soar as BoE warns on private equity’s ‘challenges’

It is a standing assumption in private credit markets that sponsor backed credit, all things being equal, is superior to sponsorless. But sponsor backed deals are often over-bid with lenders agreeing weak security packages and little or no covenants or other structural protections. In this respect sponsorless transactions often offer enhanced lender protections. If leveraged … Read more

GRI Beds Europe 2024 Event

Our CEO, Nadine Buckland is speaking at the GRI Club Europe event on Thursday at the Sofitel London St James. Nadine is joining the panel at 2.30pm discussing student housing, together with Antonio Marin-Bataller, Ioannis Verdelis, Irina Stamate-Rocha, Justin Hamer and Michael Fuller. To learn more and to register, please click below: https://lnkd.in/dz7i3vM3

The UK Needs to Build Another London to Fix Housing Crisis

At Zenzic, residential development lending is focused exclusively on high quality SMEs, helping them become the next generation of middle market homebuilders. We believe SME homebuilders are key to tackling the housing deficit. They are attuned to local need, build homes rather than land bank and can transform previously unloved buildings and sites into homes … Read more

IREI Podcast: Trends in real estate private lending with Nadine Buckland

Marek Handzel of IREI talks to Nadine Buckland, co-founder Zenzic Capital about the current state of real estate debt in Europe and why it is proving to be so attractive.  Several interesting topics were covered, including:  – The current state of real estate debt in the UK and Europe and its tightening alignment with the … Read more

European Real Estate: Lending with caution

A really interesting article in Real Estate Capital Europe, which features our CIO, Tom Lloyd-Jones. Aisha Kapoor discusses Europe’s commercial real estate market, concluding lenders are becoming more hopeful that the industry is turning a corner and presenting new value creation opportunities. Tom comments that “Major European economies are still heavily reliant on bank finance … Read more

Jersey Finance Funds Focus Event

Our CIO, Tom Lloyd-Jones is speaking at the Jersey Finance Funds Focus event on Thursday 13th June at the Connaught Hotel in London. He’s joining a panel discussing the legal, tax and structuring implications of the current market for real estate investing. To learn more or register, please click here

Mental Health Awareness Week

As part of Mental Health Awareness week, Nadine Buckland took some of the team to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square this week. Art can positively impact mental health by providing a creative outlet for expression, promoting mindfulness and relaxation and by being together with others, offers a sense of connection through shared experiences. We … Read more

Opportunistic Credit in Europe

The Opportunistic Credit proposition in Europe is, in our view, based around liquidity, or lack thereof, in European capital markets. Opportunistic credit does not require stress/distress (but can include it); instead it allows for superior returns for the provision of capital in constrained, complex or non-vanilla scenarios. In this respect the opportunity is more compelling … Read more