Sports-focused private equity firm 154 Partners has completed fundraising for its inaugural fund, reaching its $400m hard cap as it looks to capitalise on opportunities across the broader sports ecosystem, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Percheron Capital (Percheron), a private equity firm focused on essential services, has closed its third fund, Percheron Capital Fund III (Fund III), with approximately $3.1bn in total commitments.
Netley Capital, a London-based private investment firm focused on tertiary investing, has secured additional committed capital for its tertiaries franchise, bringing total deployable capital to approximately $825m from $315m at launch in September 2025.
Wealthy investors attempted to withdraw more than $20bn from private credit funds in the first quarter of 2026, highlighting growing pressures on an asset class that has become a major source of capital for leveraged buyouts and PE-backed companies, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Blackstone has closed its latest flagship opportunistic credit fund – Blackstone Capital Opportunities Fund V (COF V) – with more than $10bn in total capital commitments, reaching its hard cap amid strong investor demand for private credit strategies.
Growth-focused private equity firm OceanSound Partners has completed the final close of its third fund, OceanSound Partners Fund III, LP, with $3.0bn in capital commitments plus an additional $0.4bn for related co-investment vehicles.
BC Partners has raised approximately €2.2bn ($2.5bn) in initial commitments for its latest flagship vehicle, Fund XII, putting the firm nearly halfway to its target of €5bn, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Blue Owl Capital, an investor across credit, real assets, and GP strategic capital has completed the final close of its Asset Special Opportunities Fund IX, raising approximately $2.9bn in total capital commitments, surpassing its initial $2.5bn target.
Ares Management has raised over $9.8bn for its opportunistic credit platform, completing the third fund in the series along with associated investment vehicles, even as private credit faces growing scrutiny, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
17Capital has completed the final close of Credit Fund 2 at approximately $7.5bn, including affiliated mandates, marking the largest fundraise for a NAV loan vehicle to date and bringing the firm’s total capital raised across eight funds since 2008 to more than $24bn.
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