Why leveraged finance is the perfect route into private debt / private equity, by a banker who’s done it

by Dan Butcher

Steve Paras is a former MD and the head of the U.S. leveraged loan capital markets division at Merrill Lynch and the head of European leveraged loan capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He left banking in 2011 and is now an MD and investment committee member at Star Mountain Capital, an asset manager specializing in U.S. lower-middle-market PE and private debt. Paras suggests leveraged finance jobs are a better route into private equity or private debt than standard M&A jobs.

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