The direct lending wave, with Marisa Sotomayor of King & Spalding

Moving or storage? Fix and flip or buy and hold? These days, investment banks are under increasing pressure to compete with private credit firms — that's why many of them have set up their own direct lending groups. Marisa Sotomayor sits down with Will Caiger-Smith to explain how these businesses work.

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