Capital Solutions Are Heating Up — Are You Ready?

📰 Welcome to career.credit
Good morning, dealmakers.

Some roles are built on repetition. Others? On creativity, problem-solving, and knowing how to structure a deal when the playbook doesn’t apply.

That’s where Capital Solutions comes in. A fast-growing, complex slice of the private credit market.

If you’ve heard the term but aren’t clear on the structures, use cases, or how to break into this space… today’s issue is for you.

Let’s get into it 👇

🧠 Deep Dive: What Exactly Is a Capital Solution?
Capital Solutions sit at the more bespoke, less formulaic end of private credit. They’re what happen when a borrower’s situation doesn’t fit into a clean first-lien loan.

🔎 Think:

• Fund-level NAV facilities

• HoldCo PIK notes

• Unitranche A/B structures

• Structured equity and hybrids

• Liquidity runway for distressed sponsors

💥 It’s where creativity meets complexity.
The upside? Higher yields (L+650–950bps), complex underwriting, and a strong career path for those who can navigate multi-party capital stacks.

📄 Download: Capital Solutions 101
We built this free guide to help you break down the complexity and understand:
✅ Deal structures and instruments
✅ Use cases and borrower scenarios
✅ Execution steps and risk controls
✅ Career paths and skill sets

Download here

This is your entry point to one of the most dynamic corners of credit.

📘 Career Tactic: How to Learn Emerging Strategies Fast

New verticals pop up all the time — Capital Solutions, NAV finance, litigation funding, etc. The professionals who thrive are the ones who learn early.

Here’s how to get up the curve, fast:

🔹 Find Anchor Firms
Identify 3–5 firms known for the strategy. Follow their team moves, deals, and fund launches.

🔹 Build a Reading Stack
Target whitepapers, investor decks, and law firm outlooks. Our Capital Solutions guide has a solid further-reading list to start with.

🔹 Tap Your Network
Reach out to colleagues or alumni who’ve touched these transactions. Ask what surprised them when they first started working in the space.

🔹 Attend (or Rewatch) Conferences
Look for niche sessions at credit summits. Often, slides are posted online. Replays are gold for vocabulary and frameworks.

🔹 Shadow + Simulate
Try drafting an investment memo or IC summary from a recent transaction. If you're an Associate, ask to shadow a Capital Solutions deal for exposure.

🧠 Proximity builds fluency. Even if it’s not your day job — curiosity compounds.

🧭 TL;DR
✅ Capital Solutions are becoming a core revenue stream for top private credit firms
✅ Structuring complexity = career upside (and comp premium)
✅ Don’t wait to be assigned — lean into new strategies early
✅ Download our full breakdown and get up the curve this week

New paths, sharper skills, better positioning.

See you Friday.

— James
Founder, career.credit & Futura Search Partners