Akin has appointed Bill Brady as Partner in the firm’s special situations & private credit practice in New York. Brady joins from rival firm Paul Hastings, where he led the alternative lender and private credit group.
The board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest US pension fund, has voted to up its exposure to private equity and private credit by a combined $34bn in a bet that riskier asset classes will generate higher returns than stocks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Buyout private equity firms are having difficulty offloading companies and returning cash to investors, with direct lenders including Blackstone, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Neuberger Berman Group swooping in to provide cash, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Strategic Value Partners, a global alternative investment firm focused on opportunistic credit opportunities with over $18bn of AUM, has appointed Mike Ungari as Head of Real Estate.
Blackstone has partnered with Finland’s S-Bank to broaden access to its European private credit fund, with the latter creating a feeder fund that will invest its clients’ capital into the Blackstone European Private Credit Fund SICAV, according to a report by Alternative Credit Investor.
Sagard, a global multi-strategy alternative investment fund with over $25bn in AUM across venture capital, private equity, private credit, real estate and royalties, is to acquire a 40% stake in US-based CLO manager HalseyPoint.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Sixth Street Partners are leading a $655m debt financing package deal for global alternative investment firm HIG Capital to fund a potential purchase of mechanical and industrial cleaning company USA DeBusk, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Investment platform Corinthia Global Management is hiring a 20-plus private credit team from $381m global investment management firm Barings, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter.
HarbourView Equity Partners, an alternative asset management firm focused on investments in the sports, media and entertainment space, has secured approximately $500m in a debt financing led by global investment firm KKR.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the emirate’s $892bn sovereign wealth fund, is upping its private credit exposure with an increased commitment to alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital’s capital solutions strategy, a real estate private credit fund.
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