ABF Journal

ABF Journal launched a new, weekly email dedicated to middle market specialty finance deal activity. Subscribe now to receive a recap of the largest & most recent Acquisition, Expansion, Recapitalization and Turnaround deals every Monday morning! Subscribe Now: abfjournal.com/deal-email-sub… #ABFJournal #MiddleMarketFinance #SpecialtyFinance #DealActivity #WeeklyFinanceRecap #FinanceUpdates #CorporateFinance #MergersAndAcquisitions

Gateway Trade Funding, a purchase order and stretch financing company, recently completed the following stretch finance transactions. Read More: abfjournal.com/gateway-trade-… #GatewayTradeFunding #StretchFinance #WorkingCapital #SupplyChainFinance #POFinancing

HighPeak Energy made amendments to its term loan credit agreement and senior credit facility agreement, both effective Aug. 1, 2025. Read More: abfjournal.com/highpeak-energ… #HighPeakEnergy #DebtRestructuring #CreditFacilityAmendment #TermLoanExtension #LiquidityBoost

Iron Horse Credit appointed Joshua D. Beauvais as senior vice president. Read More: abfjournal.com/iron-horse-cre… #IronHorseCredit #LeadershipAppointment #SeniorVicePresident

BriteCap Financial promoted Molly Coleman to chief administrative officer and general counsel. Read More: abfjournal.com/britecap-finan… #BriteCapFinancial #LeadershipPromotion #ChiefAdministrativeOfficer #GeneralCounsel

The week ending August 3, 2025 delivered conflicting signals across middle market finance, with surface-level strength masking fundamental economic deterioration. Read More: abfjournal.com/middle-market-… #MiddleMarketDebt #FedDissent #LaborMarketSoftness #InflectionPoint

First Citizens Bank’s energy finance business acted as co-lead arranger and administrative agent on $238 million in financing on behalf of DSD Renewables for a large portfolio of distributed generation solar projects. Read More: abfjournal.com/first-citizens… #PrivateCredit#Renewables

Grant Thornton, a brand in professional services, and Auxis, a company in Latin American outsourcing and business modernization services, will join forces. Read More: abfjournal.com/grant-thornton… #ProfessionalServices #Advisory #AI #NearshoreOutsourcing

KKR completed a $6.5 billion fundraise focused on committing capital globally to privately originated and negotiated credit investments backed by large and diversified pools of financial and hard assets. Read More: abfjournal.com/kkr-completes-… #AssetBasedFinance #PrivateCredit

Transcat closed a new five-year $150 million secured credit facility with a syndicate led by Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (M&T), replacing the existing $80 million credit facility with M&T/ Read More: abfjournal.com/transcat-close… #CorporateFinance #CreditFacility

Fifth Third and Eldridge formed a strategic partnership to offer private credit arrangements to commercial bank clients. Read More: abfjournal.com/fifth-third-an… #PrivateCredit #CommercialBanking #StrategicPartnership #AlternativeCredit

Great Rock Capital, an asset-focused commercial finance company specializing in middle market lending, added Jake Goldberg as managing director of originations. Read More: abfjournal.com/great-rock-cap… #Leadership #MiddleMarket #AssetBasedLending #Originations #CorporateFinance

Mitsubishi HC Capital America has appointed James Anderson as executive vice president and general counsel and Kristin Knox Esche as senior vice president and deputy general counsel. Read More: abfjournal.com/mitsubishi-hc-… #Leadership #EquipmentFinance #CorporateDevelopment

Oxford Finance, a specialty finance firm, appointed Nick McDearis to lead asset-based lending (ABL) originations. Read More: abfjournal.com/oxford-finance… #Leadership #AssetBasedLending #ABL #MiddleMarket #CorporateFinance #GrowthStrategy #StructuredFinance

eCapital appointed Melissa Forman-Barenblit as president, head of transportation group. Read More: abfjournal.com/ecapital-appoi… #Leadership #TransportationFinance #FreightFactoring #SupplyChainFinance

Ault Global Real Estate Equities has, through its minority holding, Fouquet’s New York, completed a financing of $145 million with a series of funds affiliated with Goldman Sachs. Read More: abfjournal.com/fouquets-compl… #RealEstateFinance #Refinancing #PrivateCredit #GoldmanSachs

The week ending July 27, 2025, reflected the typical summer market dynamics with reduced transaction volume and heightened focus on upcoming second quarter earnings reports from business development companies. Read More: abfjournal.com/middle-market-… #Finance #MiddleMarket #Lending

Gordon Brothers provided C$30 million to finance the Canadian women’s clothing retailer Northern Reflections’ acquisition of two other Canadian women’s retailers, Cleo and Ricki’s. Read More: abfjournal.com/gordon-brother… #RetailFinancing #MergersAndAcquisitions #AssetBasedLending

Octus released its recap of the collateralized loan obligation (CLO) market for the first half of 2025. Read More: abfjournal.com/octus-identifi… #CLO #MarketVolatility #Tariffs #LeveragedLoans #FixedIncomeInsights

Ares Management, a global alternative investment manager, made enhancements to its infrastructure debt team, including the most recent addition of Jon Plavnick as a partner. Read More: abfjournal.com/ares-managemen… #InfrastructureDebt #PrivateCredit #StrategicHiring

Leo Berwick executed a credit facility for up to $75 million from Stone Point Credit, a private credit investment firm, subject to the agreed upon conditions between the parties. Read More: abfjournal.com/leo-berwick-se… #PrivateCredit #StrategicFinancing #GrowthCapital