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Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics serving hedge funds, investment banks, management consultants, and law firms since 2013. This role joins an established team of journalists covering the emerging private credit secondary market in Europe.
You will generate leads on private credit borrowers under pressure and cover transactions involving the buying and selling of existing private credit fund interests, loan portfolios, and GP-led deals. Your reporting will focus on private equity-owned businesses financed by private debt. You will produce both breaking news and thematic pieces that identify trends and join dots across affected sectors.
Key responsibilities include:
- Consistently break news on LP and GP-led transactions, as well as stressed large and mid-cap private credit names
- Support team members in sourcing deals and enhancing coverage
- Develop and maintain rapport with key industry contacts across private equity, private credit, and the advisory community
- Identify and report on new trends and developments in private equity and private credit funds
- Collaborate with financial and legal analysts and other reporters
Requirements:
- Previous experience in financial journalism with a track record of scoops
- Passion for breaking news and cultivating relationships
- Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain market sources among sophisticated deal makers
- Ability to write clearly and concisely under deadline pressure
- Strong attention to detail and developed analytical/critical thinking
- Self-motivated with ability to multitask in a fast-paced newsroom environment
- Ability to derive trends from market sources and spot patterns from covering deals
- Solid understanding of private equity, debt capital markets, specifically private credit, leveraged loans, and high yield bonds
- Collaborative mindset and comfort working in a multicultural team environment
- Knowledge of and contacts in private credit funds, advisory community, and private equity preferred
- European languages considered an advantage
