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    Eric Platt

    Senior Corporate Finance Correspondent

    Eric Platt is a senior corporate finance correspondent for the Financial Times and contributes to Due Diligence, the paper's premium deals briefing. He helps lead the paper's coverage of private credit, including the so-called shadow banking industry, which has grown in size and influence following the 2008 financial crisis.

    He also covers Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway and will expand the FT's coverage into endowments and family offices in the US, including those managing money for Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. He was previously the FT's US markets editor, mergers and acquisitions correspondent, capital markets correspondent and a founding reporter on fastFT.

    He joined the FT in 2013 from Reuters. He graduated from New York University.

    Email Eric Platt @ericgplatt  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      News in-depthUS equities
      Nvidia’s rally forces money managers to play catch-up

      Funds lightened exposure to chipmaker before bullish AI sales forecast made it a $1tn company

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Property sector
      US banks prepare for losses in rush for commercial property exit

      Lenders prepare to offload debt at a discount even when borrowers are up to date on payments

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Sotheby's Inc
      Sotheby’s buys New York landmark from Whitney in near $100mn deal

      Auction house moves closer to heart of city’s art scene with purchase of brutalist Marcel Breuer structure

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      News in-depthHigh yield bonds
      Wall Street banks re-enter junk debt market

      Lenders return to funding leveraged buyouts after painful year in which fees were hit hard

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Berkshire Hathaway Inc
      Buffett’s Berkshire bet almost $1bn on credit card issuer Capital One

      Investment conglomerate exited stakes in US Bancorp and Bank of New York Mellon in first quarter

    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      Oaktree Capital Management LP
      Oaktree’s Howard Marks warns of crunch time for private credit

      Billionaire investor says higher interest rates and slower growth are about to put $1.5tn market to the test

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Commercial property
      US lenders warned that commercial property is ‘next shoe to drop’

      Executives and investors fret about impact of rising rates and empty buildings on $5.6tn market

    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Berkshire Hathaway Inc
      Warren Buffett’s chosen successor learns to relish Berkshire spotlight

      Greg Abel is becoming better known to the conglomerate’s followers and hands-on with its operations

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
      Berkshire Hathaway Inc
      Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumps billions of dollars of US stocks

      Cash pile rises by $2bn to $130.6bn as sprawling conglomerate finds little to spend on

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
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      Buffett says bank runs would have been ‘catastrophic’ if not for deposit guarantee

      Berkshire chief holds forth at annual gathering against backdrop of US banking turmoil

    • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
      InterviewBerkshire Hathaway Inc
      Charlie Munger: US banks are ‘full of’ bad commercial property loans

      Berkshire Hathaway vice-chair foresees pain in FT interview, but says it will not be as severe as 2008

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      LVMH
      LVMH aims high for Tiffany after lavish revamp of New York store

      Bernard Arnault’s group seeks to transform storied American jeweller from mid-market to high luxury

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      News in-depthBankruptcy
      ‘Tyranny of the majority’: creditor infighting comes to $1.4tn leveraged loan market

      Serta Simmons bankruptcy ruling has opened the door to aggressive new tactics

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Thoma Bravo LLC
      Thoma Bravo lost out in race for coveted tech group amid antitrust fears

      Qualtrics eventually sold for $12.5bn to Silver Lake and CPP in largest leveraged buyout of year

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Carlyle Group LP
      Carlyle’s investment in healthcare analytics company Cotiviti falls apart

      Decision takes Wall Street by surprise after private equity firm lined up billions in financing to buy a 50% stake

    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      HPS Investment Partners LLC
      HPS assets near $100bn as credit funds move deeper into banks’ territory

      Investment manager raises $12bn for new vehicle

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Citrix Systems Inc
      Wall Street suffers $1.5bn loss on Citrix buyout loans

      Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Credit Suisse unload remnants of deal struck in the easy money era

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Private credit
      Big debt investors dealt blow in mattress maker bankruptcy ruling

      Serta Simmons court decision is milestone in ‘creditor-on-creditor violence’ litigation

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Silicon Valley Bank
      Credit funds scrutinise ‘mythical, enormous’ Silicon Valley Bank loan book

      Bids for collapsed US lender’s $74bn portfolio are due on Friday

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      SVB Financial Group
      SVB Financial clashes with FDIC over fate of $2bn in bankruptcy hearing

      Creditors believe cash under banking regulator’s control could be used to repay them

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Silicon Valley Bank
      US lawmakers urge probe of Goldman’s role in SVB failure

      California Democrats say authorities should analyse whether Wall St bank operated ‘at arm’s length’ in advising lender

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Silicon Valley Bank
      Buyout titans weigh purchases from SVB loan book

      Apollo, Blackstone and KKR among private capital groups eyeing $74bn portfolio

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Silicon Valley Bank
      Silicon Valley Bank shut down by US banking regulators

      Tech-focused lender failed in eleventh-hour attempt to raise new capital after facing $42bn in deposit outflows

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      News in-depthPrivate credit
      Private credit groups cut out banks with largest direct loan

      Apollo and Blackstone among those poised to provide $5.5bn of debt to buyout group for purchase of 50% stake in Cotiviti

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Bridgewater Associates
      Bridgewater to cut jobs and cap flagship fund in post-Dalio overhaul

      Nir Bar Dea announces headcount reduction of roughly 8% in first big move as sole chief executive

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