Insights

The bank balance sheet securitisation market has enjoyed significant growth over the past five years and looks set to continue apace on the back of clearer regulation, an increasing number of banks having acquired the technology and economic incentives for banks to free up risk-weighted assets (‘RWA’) rather than raising capital. In this article, we […]

Germany is the largest economy in Europe and a major market for direct lending. It has become a focus market for private equity given its economic strength and solidity. The country boasts a wealth of well-run, mid-sized companies – increasingly in nontraditional, non-industrial sectors – and a positive attitude towards private equity as creators of […]

Telecoms is a fundamental sector in any economy. Telecom infrastructure provides essential services to a highly diversified customer base but has high capex needs

We are pleased to share our latest country report on Private Debt in Benelux.

The UK is one of the largest, most developed, and most attractive markets for direct lending in EMEA, facilitated by a robust economy and a largely consolidated banking sector. Current threats such as the Covid pandemic and Brexit will have limited or temporary impact, making the UK a hotspot for new direct lending investment opportunities […]

Food Manufacturing is a resilient industry with limited volatility and low correlation to GDP cycles, as individual spend on food consumption is non-discretionary. These key attributes make it a core investment sector for Pemberton. Over the last four years we have made 12 investments across Europe in this sector and deployed €1.5bn of investor capital. […]

European Direct Lending – Review and Outlook We are pleased to publish a Review and Outlook of European Direct Lending, written by Saïd Business School-University of Oxford with the assistance of proprietary data from Pemberton, and a legal perspective on the direct lending market by Latham & Watkins. The report documents the characteristics of private […]

Spain is an increasingly attractive market for private debt investors. As the country’s banking sector faces another wave of mergers, direct lenders will have the opportunity to expand on the back of the banks’ reduced capacity to cover the mid-market space.

In this brochure we aim to answer the questions most frequently asked about European direct lending.

We continue to work closely with our portfolio companies across Europe as the world moves to the next stage of the coronavirus crisis.

Government responses to coronavirus have been swift and substantial. However, European support measures announced to date are not coordinated and vary from country to country.

France is an increasingly attractive market for private debt investors thanks to a powerful mixture of structural and temporary factors.