Park Square Capital and Nomura enter strategic U.S. private credit alliance

Tokyo & London, November 14, 2025— Park Square Capital (“Park Square”), a leading global private credit platform founded in Europe more than 20 years ago, and Nomura, a global financial services group, today announced that they have entered a strategic alliance to further strengthen their origination and underwriting efforts in the U.S. senior direct lending market.

This alliance will complement Park Square’s existing origination capabilities in the U.S., and will form the cornerstone to U.S. Loan Partners, Park Square’s inaugural dedicated U.S. senior direct lending vehicle. Park Square’s U.S. Loan Partners fund focuses on mid-market senior secured lending, building on Park Square’s more than ten-year track record investing in North American junior capital and broadly syndicated loans. As an anchor investor in U.S. Loan Partners, Nomura has committed $150 million as a Limited Partner in the fund, ensuring alignment and reinforcing its conviction in Park Square’s disciplined, highly selective investment approach.

The strategic alliance grants Park Square access to unitranche private credit opportunities sourced through Nomura’s U.S. Investment Banking Division, including both its differentiated Acquisition and Leveraged Finance and Advisory businesses. It will also meaningfully increase Park Square’s underwriting capabilities, enabling the firm to provide full financing solutions to larger transactions, while also creating compelling co-investment opportunities for limited partners.

Drawing on Park Square’s rigorous due diligence and highly selective approach to asset selection, U.S. Loan Partners will look to deliver tailored financing solutions to middle-market companies across the U.S.

This strategic alliance aligns with Nomura’s vision to strengthen its private markets capabilities and enhance its U.S. Investment Banking franchise, as outlined by Nomura Group’s CEO, Kentaro Okuda, during the company’s 2025 Investor Day presentation.

Robin Doumar, Managing Partner at Park Square, said: “Nomura’s deep relationships with U.S. sponsors and focus on high-quality transactions makes them a natural partner for Park Square as we significantly scale our presence in this market. We have worked closely with the Nomura team for many years, and this alliance will build upon our own highly successful track record of providing financing solutions to leading private equity firms in the U.S.”

Osvaldo Pereira, Head of Direct Lending at Park Square, commented: “We are excited to partner with Nomura in the US, which is a core market and key strategic priority across our global private credit business. Nomura’s underwriting capabilities and strong sponsor relationships are highly complementary to the deep origination network Park Square has built over the last decade in the US.

Tsutomu Takemura, Global Head of Investment Banking at Nomura, said: “As private credit continues to reshape the financing landscape, direct lending has become an increasingly vital funding source for our clients. Through this alliance, we’ve successfully broadened our footprint, leveraging Park Square’s deep direct lending market expertise combined with Nomura’s global scale and breadth of product offering.”

Garrett Carpenter, Global Head of Acquisition and Leveraged Finance at Nomura, added: “Nomura is delighted to partner with Park Square, whose longstanding private equity relationships and global origination platform complements our client-coverage strength as well as our global distribution network. This alliance will allow us to provide our issuer clients a full suite of leveraged finance solutions, including meaningful commitments to direct lending transactions in addition to underwriting and distribution of traditional syndicated loans and high yield bonds.”

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