Adams Street Partners is honored to announce that it has been named the Top Performing Direct Lending Fund Manager in the 2024 Preqin Awards.
The award helps emphasize Adams Street’s commitment to excellence in private credit and underscores the firm’s deep expertise and consistent approach to delivering superior results through disciplined investment in middle-market, private equity-backed transactions.
The Preqin Awards celebrate industry leaders across global alternative asset classes, acknowledging outstanding performance in hedge funds and private capital.
“We are grateful to be recognized by such a prestigious organization as Preqin,” said Bill Sacher, Partner & Head of Private Credit at Adams Street. “Our robust, credit-intensive investment philosophy prioritizes preservation of capital and steady cash distributions. The private credit team leverages shared insights from Adams Street’s globally integrated team of more than 100 private markets investment professionals and more than 430 general partner relationships to create significant incremental deal flow. This information advantage has allowed us to successfully invest more than $9 billion in private equity-backed middle-market transactions across various cycles.”
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