Note: Loan Pricing Corporation (LPC) defines the U.S.
Middle Market as Traditional Middle Market and Large Middle Market. Traditional
Middle Market includes transactions with deal size < or = $100M, and sales
size of less than or equal to $500M. Large Middle Market includes transactions
with deal size > $100M and < or = $500M, and sales size of less than or
equal to $500M.
News
GSMM Feature
The Gold Sheets
Middle Market feature and Industry In Focus article, published monthly,
help lenders keep abreast of important developments in the middle
market.
The Industry in
Focus articles include an in-depth look at the most talked about middle
market industries, including analysis on loan pricing, deal structure
trends, most recent deals and market commentary.
Prior articles
can be accessed through the Gold Sheets Middle Market archives dating
back to January 2000.
Late-Breaking News
Comprehensive, real-time news
coverage of the U.S. Middle Market by LPC reporters located in New
York.
Find out about mandates won
and lost, current pricing, structure, who's in and who's out, what's
trading and for how much, and much more.
Customize
your Gold Sheets Real-Time screen to display only U.S. Middle Market
news and analytics.
Perform
a Quick Search by clicking on linked borrower
names within stories. Access news stories dating back to 1995 and
information dating back to 1986 available on LoanConnector for the
borrower.
Quick Comps
provides easy access to related news stories.
One click access to
additional borrower information including stock quotes, SEC filings
and other news.
LoanMarketPulse
Weekly feature that highlights
trends and noteworthy deals in several sectors of the U.S. Middle
Market.
Includes the U.S. Middle Market deals
to watch and why, as well as commentary on the overall market.
Access archive of LoanMarketPulses
dating back to June 2000.
Provides pricing summaries
of recent middle market deals and highlights key market trends.
The pricing information is
gleaned from deals structured with performance pricing grids tied
to Debt to EBITDA ratios, which represent the most widely used financial
measure in the middle market.
Aggregate LIBOR spreads and
commitment (unused) fees are reported by borrower sales, industry,
region, event and purpose. The market snapshot also provides a summary
of the latest pricing trends in the middle market.
Underlying comparables for
all pricing and covenants grids available.
Archive of Pricing/Covenants
dating back to June 2000 available or generate your own using DealScan®
data.
Calendar
Compilation of syndicated
deals with an institutional tranche currently in the market or approaching
launch in the U.S. Middle Market.
Archive of Calendars available
dating back to June 2000.
Click on a company name and
run a Quick Search to access
news stories dating back to 1995 and information dating back to 1986
available on LoanConnector for the company.
Updated weekly.
League Tables
Ranks institutions based on the role
they play in Middle Market transactions.
Published quarterly for the
following Middle Market segments: Agent-only and Lead-Arranger for
the Traditional and Large Middle Market, and five regions.
Archive of LPC's published
League Tables dating back to first quarter 2000 available or create
your own using Advanced Search or DealScan®.
A premium service
that compiles and provides industry specific Late-Breaking News
stories, pricing grids, forward calendars, league tables, historical
volume charts (with data points), current bids and relative value
for various industries in the U.S. market for your convenience.
Industries include
financial services, healthcare, hotel & gaming, broadcasting,
oil & gas, REITs, retail & supermarkets, telecom and utilities.
Historical Data
A premium service that provides useful
historical data to justify pricing and follow market trends. Analysis
on each graph provided by LPC middle market analysts.
Historical data for financial
covenant analysis – 1998-2001 available.
Historical data for pricing
trends & analysis – 1997-2001 available.
Use MyLPC Alerts
and get e-mail notification whenever LPC publishes a Gold Sheets Late-Breaking
News Story. You never have to worry about missing the news that's
important to you. MyLPC Alerts sends news directly to your e-mail
or wireless device once it hits the LPC wire. Create your own customized
news feed, and track loan market news by region, market, industry,
company and more. Find out about mandates won and lost, current pricing,
structure, who's in and who's out, what's trading and other critical
market developments as they happen.
Quick Search
Quick Search, LoanConnector's
global search engine, allows users to find all pertinent information
related to a company. The search calls up Late-Breaking News stories
since January 1995, DealScan® detail reports dating back to 1986,
LoanDocs, LINs and links to further company information available
for the identified search in one convenient composite. Quick Search
is the simplest way to assemble comprehensive information on a company
on LoanConnector.
Advanced Search
A premium search
engine using over twenty global search categories including borrower
and lender searches, geographic location, industry, rating, date range,
sales size, deal size, facility type, facility purpose, spreads, financial
covenants, financial ratios, pricing grids and more.
A user-friendly interface that
allows for easy navigation between your deal search criteria and report
results with a simple click of the mouse.
View search results using one
or all four of the available, preformatted reports. Printable from
the web and downloadable in spreadsheet format.
