Prepare for corporate direct-lending roles from applications to investment committee. Build credible resume evidence, explain your move into credit, practice 32 technical questions and complete three underwriting cases with worked solutions. Includes a connected three-year debt and cash model, an example credit memo, committee challenges and two interview simulations. Assumes basic financial-statement knowledge.
The expanded edition of our Private Credit Underwriting Workbook. Existing owners can use their original secure download link for this update at no additional cost.
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The borrower remains below the illustrative 5.0x leverage limit yet falls below minimum operating cash. Covenant compliance and liquidity sufficiency are separate questions.
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What you get.
55 pages · 13-page sample · Edition 2.0.0. PDF only; build the exercises in your own spreadsheet. Personalized review and coaching are separate services. This specialist playbook is not included in the seven-guide recruiting bundle.
For analyst and associate candidates targeting corporate direct lending. Covers applications, cash-flow underwriting and interview practice; it is not a complete guide to real estate debt, fund finance or distressed investing. No employer question bank, placement guarantee or downloadable spreadsheet files are included.
Role selection, application evidence and targeted outreach
Annotated why-credit answers and transaction discussions
Earnings-to-cash analysis, debt sizing, PIK and liquidity
Covenants, structural priority, recovery and lender returns
Harbor and Morrow underwriting cases with solutions
Cedar: three-year model, downside and refinancing case
Complete credit memo and investment committee defense
32 original technical questions with explained answers
First-round and final-round simulations with solutions
Preparation plan, formula card and primary sources
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