Sample report · private credit

50 Best Lenders for This Financing

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The brief

We need $60M of unitranche debt for a sponsor-backed healthcare services platform with $12M EBITDA in the Southeast. Find the lenders that have funded comparable deals in the last 24 months and who they lent beside.

190

comparable first-lien healthcare facilities on the tape

lenders screened

refused, each with its reason

$11.3B

comparable principal held by the fifty

The top five, as printed

Ranked on what each desk holds, never on what it says

#	Lender	Fit	Comparables	Principal held	Newest entry	Avg mark
1	StepStone Group Private Debt	91	33	$263M	2026-06-30	1.001
2	Apollo Credit Management	88	33	$1.4B	2026-06-30	0.995
3	Antares Capital Credit Advisers	87	29	$561M	2026-03-31	0.986
4	PennantPark Investment Advisers	84	13	$579M	2026-06-30	0.998
5	MS Capital Partners Adviser	82	12	$461M	2026-06-30	0.991

What was refused

Twenty lenders screened out, with reasons

One comparable facility only, and it predates the last four quarters.
Average mark on the comparable book under 0.85.
No comparable hold above $2M: passive syndicate positions, not a lending relationship.
A feeder or sub-adviser of a lender already ranked, so the list is fifty desks rather than fifty tickers.

What DFX cannot see, stated

The limitations are printed, not buried

Facility sizes are lower bounds: the pieces BDCs disclose, never the commitment.
Borrower geography is not on a BDC schedule, so a Southeast brief ranks national lenders and says so.
Sponsor attribution is present on a minority of facilities and is never inferred.
A mark on cost is the lender's own fair value against its cost, filed under oath; it is an opinion, not a price.

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50 Best Lenders for This Financing

Ranked on what each desk holds, never on what it says

#	Lender	Fit	Comparables	Principal held	Newest entry	Avg mark
1	StepStone Group Private Debt	91	33	$263M	2026-06-30	1.001
2	Apollo Credit Management	88	33	$1.4B	2026-06-30	0.995
3	Antares Capital Credit Advisers	87	29	$561M	2026-03-31	0.986
4	PennantPark Investment Advisers	84	13	$579M	2026-06-30	0.998
5	MS Capital Partners Adviser	82	12	$461M	2026-06-30	0.991

Twenty lenders screened out, with reasons

One comparable facility only, and it predates the last four quarters.

Average mark on the comparable book under 0.85.

No comparable hold above $2M: passive syndicate positions, not a lending relationship.

A feeder or sub-adviser of a lender already ranked, so the list is fifty desks rather than fifty tickers.

The limitations are printed, not buried

Facility sizes are lower bounds: the pieces BDCs disclose, never the commitment.

Borrower geography is not on a BDC schedule, so a Southeast brief ranks national lenders and says so.

Sponsor attribution is present on a minority of facilities and is never inferred.

A mark on cost is the lender's own fair value against its cost, filed under oath; it is an opinion, not a price.