Blackstone, KKR and BC Partners among bidders for Germany’s Guntner

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Private Credit

Sponsors advance to second round of IceLake’s Groundbirds sale

Ares Management, Castik Capital, Egeria Group, HIG Capital, Inflexion, and Rivean Capital are through to the second round of IceLake’s sale of infrastructure maintenance business Groundbirds, according to 9fin sources.

6 Oct 2026

| Europe

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Private Credit

Software’s second coming finds a new price

Seven months after a stormy SaaSpocalypse sent lenders scrambling to reassess their exposure, European software deals are pricing around 50bps-75bps wider than before the sell-off, according to 9fin sources.

5 Oct 2026

| Europe

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Private Credit

Taking the Credit — Europe’s sports clubs turn to stadium debt

This week’s water cooler talk among sports financiers has centred on Manchester City FC, after news broke on 25 September that the club had been found guilty of 114 of the 115 financial charges brought against it by the Premier League - dubbed as the biggest scandal in sporting history by The Independent.

2 Oct 2026

| Europe

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Private Credit

Apollo’s daily private credit marks are coming; but how?

One of private credit’s biggest managers is about to pull off a trick that no one else has yet managed; pricing its assets every day. Apollo CEO Marc Rowan has promised daily marks across the firm's entire credit business, more than $830bn of assets, by 1 October.

29 Sept 2026

| Europe

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Private Credit

Proximity to data centers becomes key selling point in industrials deals

With private credit's pivot to industrials in the wake of the SaaSpocalypse holding steady, lenders are increasingly hunting for a specific angle: some tie to data center infrastructure.

29 Sept 2026

| US

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Private Credit

Hot Stacks — Tracking the AI data infrastructure financing boom

Hot Stacks is 9fin’s weekly take on data center finance — the deals moving the market, the people behind them, and the risks and opportunities buried in the stack.

24 Sept 2026

| US