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Permira Private Equity multiplies the potential of companies, leaders and our own people to build successful businesses with sustainable growth ambitions.

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Permira Structured Credit: Investing in CLO Opportunities Across Market Cycles

Permira’s Structured Credit strategy focuses on investing in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) through its Sigma Structured Credit funds. With more than 16 years of experience investing in European CLOs, the strategy is designed to identify attractive risk-adjusted opportunities across different market environments. By leveraging deep credit expertise and strong relationships across the CLO market, Permira seeks to deliver long-term value through disciplined investment selection and active portfolio management.

The Sigma Structured Credit platform benefits from a flexible, credit-led investment approach and the combined expertise of Permira’s Direct Lending and CLO Management teams. This integrated structure enables the investment team to assess market conditions, evaluate underlying credit quality, and deploy capital across multiple cycles while maintaining a focus on risk management and portfolio resilience.

As part of the broader Permira Credit platform, Structured Credit complements a range of financing solutions designed to support businesses across resilient sectors such as technology, healthcare, and services. The strategy is backed by Permira’s commitment to responsible investing, incorporating sustainability considerations into its investment processes to help identify risks and opportunities over the long term.

Learn More Here: https://www.permira.com/investing/credit/structured-credit

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Permira Credit: Flexible Financing Solutions for Business Growth

Permira Credit is a leading European credit investment platform that provides flexible financing solutions to businesses across a range of credit strategies. As part of the broader Permira investment platform, the team focuses on supporting companies through Direct Lending, CLO Management, Structured Credit, and Strategic Opportunities. The strategy is designed to help businesses access tailored capital solutions while creating long-term value for investors.

With a strong track record of investing through multiple market cycles, Permira Credit primarily targets resilient sectors such as technology, healthcare, and services. Its Direct Lending strategy provides predominantly senior secured financing to mid-market companies, while CLO Management and Structured Credit strategies offer diversified exposure to leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations. The Strategic Opportunities platform delivers bespoke financing solutions for companies facing unique capital needs or operating in evolving market environments.

Responsible investing is embedded throughout the investment process, with a focus on sustainability considerations and long-term partnership. By combining sector expertise, disciplined credit analysis, and flexible capital solutions, Permira Credit helps businesses achieve growth while delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns for investors.

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Permira Credit is one of Europe’s leading specialist credit investors, supporting businesses with flexible financing solutions across Direct

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Permira Strategic Opportunities

Permira’s Strategic Opportunities strategy sits at the intersection of its credit and broader investment platform, providing flexible capital solutions—such as bespoke debt and minority equity—to European companies that may not have access to traditional financing. The strategy can also take advantage of market dislocations by lending during volatile periods to support quality businesses, leveraging Permira’s integrated expertise. Discover more at https://www.permira.com/investing/credit/strategic-opportunities

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Permira Structured Credit (Sigma) Overview

Permira’s Structured Credit (Sigma) funds focus on investing in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), using a credit-led, flexible approach across market cycles to deliver diversified exposure to European leveraged-loan markets and generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for investors.

Learn more here: https://www.permira.com/investing/credit/structured-credit

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Permira CLO Management Overview

Permira’s CLO Management platform invests in broadly syndicated leveraged loans to large-cap companies in resilient sectors — notably tech, healthcare, and services — using a credit-led, actively managed and sustainability-aware approach to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for investors.

Learn more here: https://www.permira.com/investing/credit/clo-management

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Permira Direct Lending Overview

Permira’s Direct Lending strategy provides flexible, senior secured financing to high-quality mid-market companies across Europe. Focused on resilient sectors like tech, healthcare, and services, Permira supports growth, acquisitions, and refinancing through rigorous underwriting and a responsible-investment approach.

Learn more here: https://www.permira.com/investing/credit/direct-lending

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Navigating the Tech CFO's Dilemma: Balancing Core Stability with Agile Innovation

The role of the technology CFO has never been more complex. Tasked with driving growth while navigating a rapidly evolving tech landscape, CFOs face a critical balancing act: maintaining the stability of core financial systems while embracing innovation to stay ahead of the curve.

Permira recently gathered our network of North American Tech CFOs to discuss key priorities and challenges shaping their technology investment decisions. Here’s what we learned:

The ERP Balancing Act

ERPs remain mission-critical, consuming roughly 40% of software budgets according to our group of CFOs. While this spend is projected to grow, non-ERP solutions are also gaining traction, reflecting the need for specialized, best-of-breed tools alongside core systems. 

CPM: High Value, High Stakes

In discussions with our network of Tech CFOs, Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions were recognized for yielding the highest strategic value to their respective company – and more than half of the CFOs identified CPM vendors as difficult to switch out, attempting to keep it separate from ERP re-bundling even during a cloud ERP migration.

The Rise of the Machines (and AI)

Generative AI is on the radar, with CFOs recognizing its potential to automate tasks and optimize functions like FP&A, AR, and AP. Our  Tech CFOs expect Gen AI to act as an accelerant over the next 5 years – it’s not just hype. Expect to see increased investment in AI-powered solutions that drive efficiency.

Read full blog here: https://www.permira.com/news-and-insights/insights/navigating-the-tech-cfos-dilemma-balancing-core-stability-with-agile-innovation

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Permira

Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds with total assets under management of €60bn+ and makes long-term majority and minority investments across two core asset classes, private equity and credit. The Permira private equity funds have made approximately 300 private equity investments in four key sectors: Technology, Consumer, Healthcare and Services. Permira employs over 450 people in 16 offices across Europe, the United States and Asia.

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