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Flexible, tailored Private Credit strategies

Private credit has become a well-established asset class over the past two decades and is poised to continue its growth trajectory. DLA Piper is at the forefront of providing lenders and investors a single point of contact for comprehensive legal advice and strategic guidance across all aspects of private credit.
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In-depth understanding of complex transactions
Our global network, combined with a deep understanding of legal imperatives, market practice, and local and foreign laws, allows us to provide advice on multifaceted and flexible solutions.

Experience with alternative capital providers
As non-traditional lenders increasingly enter the market, we advise on transactions involving private credit funds, small business investment companies (SBICs), and other non-bank lenders, helping you navigate the complex landscape.

Lender lens
Drawing on decades of lender-side experience, our legal advice is informed by commercial insight, enabling us to provide strategic guidance grounded in a deep understanding of what matters most to private credit providers.

Scalable solutions across the full market spectrum
While our team has a proven track record in the middle market, what truly sets us apart is our ability to seamlessly scale and deliver across the full market spectrum – from middle to upper middle and large cap – we have the bench and experience to provide clients with consistent, high-quality execution regardless of deal size or complexity

Experience with fund-level leverage, joint ventures, and co-investments
As private credit fund managers look to unlock additional liquidity, we help navigate subscription facilities, net asset value (NAV) facilities, hybrid facilities, and other kinds of back leverage, including joint ventures and co-investments with other asset managers.

Private credit funds
Our team operates on the cutting edge of the credit funds space, advising on innovative hybrid funds that combine the features of open-end credit funds and closed-end credit funds.

With Chambers-ranked investor-side and sponsor-side practices, we bring deep market knowledge across the private funds industry. We routinely advise on fund formation and operation, as well as the structural, tax, and regulatory differences between credit funds and typical private equity funds.

Our team also advises on structures designed to attract insurance company capital, including rated note feeder and collateralized fund obligation structures.

We provide commercially focused, strategic legal advice to support the development and growth of your tactical credit business.

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