Littlejohn & Co, a Connecticut-based investment firm specialising in private equity and debt investments in middle market companies with $8bn in AUM, has entered into an agreement to sell Dana Kepner Company, a Colorado-based supplier of water works material and services, to Core & Main, a specialised distributor of water,
Sticks’n’Sushi, the Copenhagen-based restaurant and takeaway group operating 27 sites across the UK, Denmark and Germany, has been acquired by McWin Capital Partners, a London-based private equity firm with Gail’s, Vapiano and L’Osteria on its portfolio.
Global investment manager M&G Investments has appointed Emmanuel Deblanc as Chief Investment Officer of the company’s £74bn private markets business, which invests across private credit, structured credit, impact and private equity, real estate and infrastructure.
The asset management arm of French multinational bank BNP Paribas is targeting a €1bn ($1.1bn) fundraise for a new direct-lending fund that will focus on medium-sized businesses, and will differ from the bank’s other private credit facilities by offering unitranche loans, according to a report from Bloomberg.
TJC, a middle-market private equity firm investing primarily in North American businesses, has held the final closing of Resolute Fund VI, with total capital commitments of $6.85m, an amount significantly above its initial $6bn hard cap.
OceanSound Partners, a private equity firm that invests in technology and technology-enabled services companies serving government and highly-regulated enterprise end-markets, has appointed Julie Marracino as Principal of Investor Relations.
Zurich-based Julius Baer will exit the private debt market and is preparing to write off its CHF606mn ($700mn) exposure to Signa, the now-collapsed luxury developer owned by René Benko whose portfolio included German department store KaDeWe and the Chrysler Building in New York. The private bank’s CEO, Philipp Rickenbacher, has
Direct lender and credit manager Golub Capital has acted as administrative agent and sole lead arranger on a $2.11bn unitranche facility to refinance Aptean’s existing first lien and second lien broadly syndicated loan facilities.
JPMorgan Chase has promoted Reuben Ong, who has worked at the firm for more than 13 years, to Head of Southeast Asia Debt Origination, which will see him leading the private credit financing business in the region, according to a report from Reuters.
Private debt and infrastructure are set to remain the preferred alternative asset classes among South Korean institutional investors for the second year running in 2024, according to a survey by The Korea Economic Daily.
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