ForeVest Capital Partners has launched as an independent alternative investment firm, having completed a spinout from PineBridge Investments by mutual agreement.  Established by the four senior managers of PineBridge New Europe Partners (NEP) – Pierre Mellinger, Artur Haze, John Leone, and Doina Popescu – ForeVest will continue to focus on

PIMCO has formed a joint venture with Solar Capital Partners as the firm continues to develop and expand its private credit platform. Solar Capital Partners is an investor in private corporate credit with a 10-year track record of making private loans to corporate borrowers. The firm also has a network of

A cross-border team from law firm Goodwin represented the neuroscience company Cerevance in its financing by Lightstone Ventures and Takeda Pharmaceutical.  Cerevance will focus on discovering and developing novel therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric disorders.    The USD36 million funding round includes a USD21.5 million Series A financing investment from

FS Investments’ business development company (BDC) direct lending platform committed approximately USD988 million in senior secured loans and other debt and equity financing to middle market companies in the third quarter of 2016, bringing its year-to-date total originations to more than USD2.2 billion. New directly originated investments during the quarter

Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a senior credit facility to support private equity sponsor Tower Arch Capital’s recapitalisation of Corbett Technology Solutions (CTSI) in partnership with its management team. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, CTSI is an integrator of high-impact communications

KKR has closed two direct lending transactions which will provide financing for Roompot, an operator of holiday parks, and Exterion Media, an outdoor advertising company in the UK and Europe. The two transactions will deliver over USD275 million in financing and add to the track record of KKR’s European direct

CVC Credit Partners and the EQT Mid-Market Credit Fund’s European Private Debt businesses have jointly provided a GBP110 million unitranche facility to Paymentsense. As Europe’s largest merchant services provider, Paymentsense specialises in providing fast, affordable and reliable card processing services to over 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses processing GBP5bn of

Seed-stage investment company ZEAL Investments has partnered with MassChallenge UK, a start-up accelerator. The partnership gives ZEAL Investments the opportunity to plug itself into the vast array of start-up companies involved in MassChallenge’s accelerator programme.   James Oakes, director of ZEAL Investments, says: “With only 5 per cent of the