Explore Crisil, a company of S&P Global

Formerly known as Global Research & Risk Solutions

February 19, 2025

Supported a large Private Debt (PD) firm across investment management processes, leading to ~2x AUM growth  

Background

 

  • Support required for in-depth due diligence and surveillance, on an ongoing basis, for a portfolio of private debt investments to facilitate buy/sell/hold investment strategies
  • The client faced challenges, which constrained the deal team's bandwidth in higher-value tasks, such as target identification and new deal evaluation, and fostering growth through a cost-effective model

Crisil Integral IQ solution

Deal underwriting

 

  • Comprehensive support involving underwriting of new investments, including financial model with scenarios and return analysis, and analysis of business profile, strategy, competitive landscape and industry growth prospects
  • Active support in preparing investment thesis and risks along with deal-level losses under base/stress/tail case economic scenarios presented to the investment committee

Active surveillance

 

  • Ensures up-to-date database for financial and non-financial KPIs for all investments on client's proprietary data management platform
  • Complete ownership of monitoring the client's private debt portfolio of 350+ investments and updated investment recommendations based on the latest financial performance
  • Active support in preparing detailed credit summaries on private investments used for executive reporting

Ad-hoc support

 

  • Collaborated with the client team to conduct periodic sector reviews

Client impact

 

  • ~2x expansion in portfolio coverage and assets under management (AUM) facilitated by optimization of investment team bandwidth
  • Portfolio value creation supported by impactful insights and strategic recommendations to the investment committee
  • ~30% operational cost savings driven by process improvements

 

 

Questions

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United States
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+1 646 292 3520

 

United Kingdom
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India
+91 22 33 42 3000 /
+91 22 61 72 3000