Clearlake Capital Group, an investment firm which operates integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies, has launched Clearlake Credit, a specialist credit platform that will provide flexible capital solutions to dynamic businesses globally.
The launch of Clearlake Credit comes as Clearlake completes its acquisition of MV Credit, a pan-European private credit specialist, from Natixis Investment Managers. This builds on Clearlake’s acquisition of WhiteStar Asset Management in 2020.
MV Credit and WhiteStar will be integrated into Clearlake Credit, which now represents over $57bn in liquid and illiquid credit investments deployed globally to date.
Clearlake Credit underwrites investments of up to $1bn across the following capital solutions:
Private Credit – Senior, junior, and other structured and hybrid debt and/or equity capital solutions to sponsor-backed companies globally, leveraging relationships with founders, management teams, and sponsors globally.
Liquid Credit – Investments in senior secured loans and other credit instruments across syndicated and other secondary markets globally, including US and European CLO investment capabilities across investment grade, mezzanine, and equity tranches, using our knowledge of the broadly syndicated loan markets globally and a bottoms-up, fundamental credit underwriting approach.
With $90bn in AUM firmwide, Clearlake and its affiliates have a global team of over 230 professionals in offices in Santa Monica, Dallas, London, Dublin, Luxembourg, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore.
