Private equity and alternative credit giants, including Blackstone, Apollo Global Management, Golub Capital, and Ares, are selling bonds backed by private credit loans at the fastest pace on record, according to a report by Bloomberg.
UK and Ireland growth capital investor BGF has named Tracy Bownes as its new Head of Value Creation, strengthening the firm’s operational support for portfolio companies. Bownes joins from LDC, where she served as a Partner.
Apollo Global Management is targeting wealthy European investors with three new private capital funds, expanding access to its European private credit, global diversified credit, and private markets secondaries strategies, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A JPMorgan-led banking group is working on $1.35bn in debt financing to support the merger of Advent International-backed Xplor Technologies with Clubessential Holdings, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Josh Harris-backed 26North Partners has appointed Matthew Manin, formerly head of private equity capital markets at Apollo Global Management, to spearhead its capital-markets operations, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the move.
Goldman Sachs-backed Petershill Partners Plc is set to return $921m to investors and delist from the London Stock Exchange, valuing the firm at approximately $4.5bn – a 35% premium to its last closing price, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Private equity giants Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman could be set for one of the sector’s biggest healthcare exits in years, as portfolio company Medline considers a US IPO that may value the medical supplies group at up to $50bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Activist hedge fund Irenic Capital Management is seeking to attract private equity buyers for SSP Group, the London-listed operator of travel food outlets including Upper Crust, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Danish private equity firm Axcel is weighing a potential sale of IT consulting firm Emagine, in a transaction that could value the business at around €700m ($826m), according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
US healthcare services firm Premier has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of private investment firm Patient Square Capital in a take-private transaction valued at $2.6bn, according to a report by Reuters.
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