Private credit is a well-established asset class with a long history of generating attractive, stable returns through:
Quarterly cash yield on floating rate loans
Attractive structures with downside management
Robust lender protections
Northleaf's direct lending strategy invests across the capital structure with a primary focus on mid-market, private equity-backed companies.
Investment Approach
Flexible Capital Solutions
Flexibility to invest across the capital structure, including senior debt, junior debt and structured capital.
We provide borrowers with a breadth of financing solutions and offer investors consistent, strong risk-adjusted returns.
Disciplined Investment Philosophy
Direct lending to mid-market, primarily private equity-backed, companies operating in defensive industries, with recurring revenue and essential products and services.
We are focused on downside management through well-documented covenants and conservatively-levered capital structures.
Relationship Advantages
Sourcing and information insights from our integrated private markets platform and longstanding private equity sponsor relationships.
We are able to leverage our relationships to generate consistent and proprietary deal flow.
Within corporate direct lending, we are focused on private equity-backed transactions where we can harness synergies from our private equity program. The program has invested in 300+ mid-market GPs which provide proprietary credit financing opportunities for their underlying portfolio companies and strong access during due diligence.
