Investment Criteria
Company Size (EBITDA)
Maximum Commitment
Average Investment
$10 mm - $100 mm
Up to $150 mm
$10 mm - $75 mm
Highly Selective Investment Process:
We have stringent underwriting standards focused on relative value, strong credit statistics and a high level of portfolio diversity.
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Initial vetting & structuring
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Early assessment
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Full due diligence
Recent Junior Capital Transactions
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Caldwell & Gregory
Caldwell & Gregory
Lender
- Second Lien Term Loan
Incline Equity Partners
September 2024
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Village Green Holding
Village Green Holding
Lender
- Equity
- Subordinated Note
Center Oak Partners
September 2024
News & Press
TIAA-CREF Launches Churchill Asset Management
NEW YORK, April 8, 2015 – TIAA-CREF, a leading financial services provider, today announced the launch of Churchill Asset Management LLC (www.churchillam.com ), a new majority-owned subsidiary focused on originating, underwriting and managing senior loan investments, primarily in U.S. middle-market companies. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Promise and Pitfalls of Permanent Capital
NEW YORK, April 2, 2015 – We’re seeing a rush to pound out new publicly-traded (and private) business development companies, with many launched and more lined up in registration. Managers have correctly identified the virtues of BDCs: one-to-one fund leverage, tax advantages for investors, access to permanent capital, double-digit return potential, the fact that banks can own them under Dodd-Frank… Need we go on?
No Payback Time for Leveraged Borrowers
NEW YORK, March 5, 2015 – One tenet of sound lending practices is establishing the borrower’s capacity to repay its debt over the contractual life of the obligation. So it’s not surprising that regulators have taken banks to task in recent reports highlighting a growing number of leveraged loan issuers which lack that capacity.
1. Includes both junior and structured capital.