Bruce Flatt
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Yes, yes.
Department of Commerce, like our transaction was done with Department of Energy and specifically Department of Commerce, Howard Ludnick, and they were very transactional and they focused on the right things and we got a transaction done.
So we have two, I'm going to say this, we have two amazing brands.
Brookfield's an incredible brand, but Oak Tree's an amazing brand as well.
And we plan on keeping both.
Behind the scenes, some of the things that we do will be we'll join them together and we'll do things to get cost synergies and benefits and all those kind of things.
But the two brands are unbelievably valuable in our opinion, and they're going to stay.
And, you know, for for opportunistic credit investing, which today is super important or more important this week than it was last week, the Oak Tree brand is an incredible franchise.
And we're going to keep that.
And it's really important to us.
Yeah.
I don't comment on any other group's business.
But what I would say is our business is focused on asset-backed finance, opportunistic credit, and lending to things we understand, lending to the real economy.
And therefore, we have very little exposure to the types of things that are going on today.
And that may be fortuitous.
I'd say in our opportunistic business, it creates a big opportunity.
Because then when things sell off,
Often they go way too far, and therefore opportunity comes about.
There might be something there?
Yes, yes.