What deep value or distressed PE funds go on-cycle?

Title basically. Just curious with value, deep value or distress buyout funds go on-cycle.

Some of the ones I'd like to know are...

Apollo - Yes

Centerbridge - ?

KPS - ?

SVP - ?

HIG - ?

American Industrial Partners - ?

Oaktree Special Sits PE - ? 

Cerberus - ?

Platinum - ?

Searchlight - ?

any of the MMs (Stellex/Monomy/Gamut/One Rock) - I am assuming not.

Feel free to add any others.

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Value oriented as opposed to growth oriented (e.g. Warburg, H&F). It means they invest in assets that they believe are undervalued. For example, a place like H&F would invest in high quality compounding businesses in growing industries even if it means going in at a high multiple. Deep value places care less about the quality of the business and focus on the price, believing that anything can be a good business if you go in at the right multiple (e.g. ~6x EBITDA). Deep value places also place a huge emphasis on free cash flow generation and ROIC as opposed to top line growth. A lot of these deep value funds dabble in distressed territory, meaning their mandate includes companies in Chapter 11 or buying the fulcrum security of a company — essentially the tranche of debt that is granted full equity control over a business under the Plan of Restructuring after it emerges from bankruptcy.

 

From a friend that works there, I heard Fitzwalter may take an on-cycle recruit this year

 

Searchlight doesn't go on-cycle to my knowledge. They were still recruiting for 2024 associates late last year.

Would add Silver Point takes some on-cycle (maybe not necessarily distressed buyout, but obv in the broader distressed world)

 

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