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Our employees volunteered to help more than 300 New York families pick up food for Thanksgiving at the Dominican Women’s Development Center (DWDC). HPS partners with DWDC to help provide healthy food and supportive services to those in need.?

This week’s podcast focuses on current trends in the private and public credit markets. We discuss interest rates, credit spreads, M&A activity, and sectors that have our attention. Vikas Keswani, Head of North American Specialty Lending at HPS, and Scott Crocombe, a Managing Director on the HPS Liquid Credit team, join host Colbert Cannon for this episode. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. https://lnkd.in/gKvs8Hax

Congratulations to Grishma Parekh on being honored as one of Private Credit’s “Women to Watch” in The Wall Street Journal Pro Private Equity Special Report. Grishma is a Managing Director and Co-Head of North America Core Senior Lending at HPS. She serves on the firm’s investment committee and is President of HPS Corporate Lending Fund, a public, nontraded business development company. Join us in congratulating Grishma and the other honorees!

Exposing credit and financial concepts to students considering future career paths is an important part of their development and decision-making process. MBA students from The Wharton School who are part of the Wharton Restructuring and Distressed Investing Conference (WRDIC) joined us to learn from and network with some our investment professionals, including Vikas Keswani, Hadley Chu, Michael Fogel, Thomas Bracaglia, and Anni Z..

Host Colbert Cannon sits down with James “Jamie” H.M. Sprayregen — a legend in the field of bankruptcy and restructuring. Jamie shares insights from navigating some of the most complicated bankruptcies in history at Kirkland & Ellis. Then, we discuss his new role as Vice Chairman at Hilco Global.

The insurance dedicated fund market is a growing focus for many of our wealth and institutional clients. We enjoyed speaking and meeting with many of them at the 2024 Fall Private Placement Conference hosted by SALI Fund Services, a JTC Group Company. HPS was pleased to sponsor the conference, which included John Christmas, Co-Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at HPS, discussing the evolution of private credit and longer-term opportunities we see in the asset class.

A group of veterans transitioning to civilian life joined us for an introductory session on private credit led by Conor O'Toole, an Executive Director from our Business Development team. The group also heard from Jake Wood, a former United States Marine Corps Sergeant who is now the CEO of Groundswell and Founder of Team Rubicon. HPS is proud to partner with 51 Vets, helping to provide access to internships and networking opportunities in the financial services industry.

Host Colbert Cannon sits down with Steven Silverstein, CEO at Spencer's Spirit Holdings, Inc., to discuss his key lessons in crafting memorable in-person shopping experiences in the digital age —?and how he’s scaled Spirit Halloween's one-of-a-kind pop-up retail business model.

Regardless of next week’s election results, the growing federal deficit is likely to become an even bigger issue, as Lotfi Karoui, Chief Credit Strategist and Head of Credit and Mortgage Strategy Research at Goldman Sachs, explains in this short clip from our latest podcast. Listen to his full macro and credit market outlook on the HPScast with host Colbert Cannon at this link or wherever you get your podcasts. https://lnkd.in/ebVxeUmX

Our latest podcast features Lotfi Karoui, Chief Credit Strategist and Head of Credit and Mortgage Strategy Research at Goldman Sachs, who shares his macro and credit market outlook. Listen to the HPScast with host Colbert Cannon at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts. https://lnkd.in/ebVxeUmX