Carlyle brings in credit fundraising specialist from First Avenue
The global head of credit at First Avenue Partners – a firm which specialises in fundraising – has signed up with Carlyle Group

LGIM adds three to its global private credit team
Legal & General Investment Management has made three key hires to its private credit business across its London and Chicago offices

Canada’s pension funds continue their growth in European direct lending
Canada’s PSP adds former Goldman Sachs senior director to role in London, reports Financial News 

Northleaf announces $1.4 billion for global direct lending programme
Canadian private equity shop announces fund raising results after hiring spree 

Partners Group adds senior official to its London-based private debt team
Partners Group has made another addition to its private debt group in London with Bloomberg reporting that the asset manager has hired Bill Berry

Pemberton adds deputy chief credit officer to its team in London
Legal & General-backed direct lender Pemberton Asset Management has announced the hire of Nicole Gates as deputy chief credit officer.

Ardian promotes former ICG official to co-head of private credit business
Paris-based asset manager Ardian has announced the promotion of Mark Brenke to co-head its private credit business alongside Olivier Berment

Mass recruitment into direct lending is likely to end, finds Deloitte report
Deloitte report points out that most direct lenders have now got settled teams in place and that the recruitment drive that has seen the industry swell to include over 300 direct lending professionals is likely to slow down

Asian direct lender poaches Nomura financing head
OCP Asia hires Nomura's former head of principal finance in Singapore 

Crestline confirms Tenax team hire, as reported in Creditflux
Crestline Investors has confirmed that it has hired a team from Tenax Credit for its new European office, as first reported in Creditflux

Adams Street hires former Oaktree officials for new private credit unit
The former head of Oaktree's Capital Management's mezzanine debt business, Bill Sacher, has resurfaced at Adams Street Partners to launch a new private credit initiative

Legal and General hires from RBS in bid to expand private debt business
Legal & General Investment Management has announced the hire of London-based Nicholas Bamber as head of private assets within its private debt team

HIG announces direct lending hire in Boston
HIG WhiteHorse, the credit affiliate of HIG Capital, has announced the hire of Eric Nadzo to its Boston office

Angelo Gordon’s direct lending arm bulks up with two hires
Twin Brook Capital Partners hires two for mid market lending

Golub hires TPG mid-market specialist to source non-sponsored deals
Mid-market lender poaches specialist to expand beyond private equity backed debt deals