Jeneen Marziani, who has served as Ohio president for the past 13 years, has been named president of Cleveland. Kelly D’Ambrosia, Merrill Lynch Market Executive has been named president of Columbus. Mark M. Ryan, Merrill Lynch Market Executive has been named president of Cincinnati.

Ares Capital Management LLC acted as Administrative Agent and Lead Arranger with respect to the New Facility. Canaccord Genuity Corp. acted as financial advisor and DLA Piper LLP acted as legal counsel to Dye & Durham for the transaction. Latham & Watkins LLP acted as legal counsel to the lenders for the transaction.

Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal services industry and corporations, released its September 2021 bankruptcy filing statistics from its AACER bankruptcy information services business. Overall, September new filings for all chapters were down 4% or 30,907 month-over-month, down from 32,263 in August 2021.

Global law firm White & Case LLP announced the promotion of 59 lawyers around the world to its partnership today. The promotions are effective on January 1, 2022, and represent 12 of the Firm's global practices across 24 locations throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (“SmartStop”) announced today that it exercised $200 million of its accordion (the “Accordion”) under its existing multi-currency credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) with a syndicate of banks led by KeyBank National Association, Wells Fargo, N.A., Citibank, N.A. and Bank of Montreal.

TAB Bank is pleased to announce it has provided a clean air products manufacturer in Florida with a $3.25 million asset-based credit facility. In addition to the revolving credit line, TAB also provided the company with $1.7 million in an equipment term loan. The new facility is extended through a multi-year agreement and will provide for the company’s ongoing working capital needs.

Espresso Capital announced today that it has provided MAP Health Management, LLC with a $14 million credit facility. MAP will use the funds to scale its business and help fuel its M&A strategy. MAP's integrated platform is designed to improve outcomes for patients being treated for addictions and other behavioral health illnesses and delivers a broad range of telehealth services including virtual peer support, psychiatric care and therapeutic care for patients and their family members.

J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, U.S. Bank National Association, BofA Securities, Inc., Capital One, National Association, and PNC Capital Markets LLC served as Joint Lead Arrangers with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. serving as the Administrative Agent. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, U.S. Bank National Association, Capital One, National Association, PNC Bank, National Association, and Bank of America, N.A. served as syndication agents.

Alston & Bird advised Synovus Bank, as administrative agent and a lender, in SPB Hospitality’s acquisition of J Alexander’s Holdings, the parent company of J Alexander’s Restaurant and other brands. Upon closing, each share of J. Alexander’s common stock was converted into the right to receive $14.00 in cash per share, which equates to an equity value of approximately $220 million.

When a Los Angeles apparel manufacturing and import company sought funding for their Fall and Winter orders, they chose Republic Business Credit to fuel their growth. Republic approved a scalable traditional factoring facility to support their expected growth in anticipation of the orders they have received for the additional reopening of retail stores.

Apex Clean Energy (“Apex”) and Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) (“Ares”) today announced that funds and other accounts managed by Ares’ Infrastructure and Power strategy have entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Apex. The transaction will provide Apex with additional equity growth capital as it seeks to transition to a pure-play renewable energy independent power producer (IPP).

Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal’s (A&M) Global Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) has launched A&M Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), a new proprietary technology that significantly increases the speed of deal identification. Led by A&M DIG Executive Directors Tara Bilby, and Mishelle Weinerman, along with Chief Technology Officer Joey Baruch, the technology provides private equity firms with data, for better private market intelligence, from which to make informed deal identification decisions.

Thentia, a global leader in GovTech software as a service (SaaS), announced today that it has secured a $15 million credit facility to support key investments and acquisitions as the company accelerates its rapid expansion into new markets. This latest financing marks Thentia's third financing from Espresso Capital, a leading provider of venture debt solutions, and its second major capital event this year.

BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO), acting as sole Sustainability Structuring Agent, has announced a financing deal with royalty company Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm" or "Sandstorm Gold Royalties"). Adopting a Sustainability-Linked Loan structure as part of its 2021 revolving credit facility renewal enables Sandstorm to link its ESG strategy and cost of capital, reinforcing and demonstrating its commitment to sustainability.

Runway Growth Capital LLC ("Runway" or the "Company"), a leading provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, announced today that it has hired Igor DaCruz as Managing Director to continue to expand the company's Life Sciences Origination team.

Amerisource Business Capital was honored in the M&A Advisor’s 15th Annual Turnaround Awards. Amerisource received its award at the Turnaround Awards Gala, which took place at the 2021 Distressed Investing Summit on September 29, 2021 in midtown Manhattan.

Monroe Capital LLC today announced Sweta Chanda has joined the firm as Managing Director, Head of Business Strategy based in the firm’s New York office. She will be responsible for firmwide strategy, product and corporate development, and new initiatives to expand Monroe’s global footprint.

A Global Supply Chain Management Company supplying Dollar Stores with warehouse equipment had exceeded its internal funding capability. They needed to seek new outside funding so they would not lose new business opportunities. An industry colleague and current Gateway Trade Funding client suggested they call Gateway to see if purchase order financing could help. Gateway successfully provided the global supply chain management company with a $1,000,000 PO facility.

OppFi Inc. (NYSE: OPFI) (“OppFi”), a leading financial technology platform that powers banks to help everyday consumers gain access to credit, announced today that it has expanded its existing $25 million bank credit facility to $45 million.

Finacity Corporation, a White Oak Company, (“Finacity”) announced that it has successfully completed the facilitation of a new consumer loan funding program for Express Credit Group’s Botswana specialty finance operations (”Express Credit”).