Rod James
Rod James is Senior Editor, Private Equity at PitchBook, the financial data and research firm, a role he joined in 2025. He previously spent three years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal covering private equity and private credit, and before that spent more than five years at Private Equity International leading North American PE market coverage. James is known for his reporting on private equity fundraising trends, deal activity, and market dynamics.
“Holding the hardware in the SPV keeps it off Anthropic's balance sheet — useful for a company preparing to list on a market where companies with high debt loads are often punished by investors. ... The use of off-balance-sheet financing has also set alarm bells ringing among regulators.”
“PE vehicles are, in some ways, more exposed to corporate distress than BDCs, which mainly make senior-secured loans to private businesses. Equity holders are last in line to recover their money in the event of bankruptcies.”
Source→“Rolling-12-month fundraising by PE funds declined for the eighth consecutive quarter. Around $385 billion was raised in the 12 months ending with Q1, a 29% decline from the previous period.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.