Vietnamese financial firm F88 Investment JSC has secured a $50m private loan form Lending Ark Asia Secured Private Debt Funds to help support the expansion of its presence in the country’s non-banking sector, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Phoenix Holdings (Phoenix), an Israel-based insurance, asset management, and financials group, and Apollo are launching a partnership for the deployment and co-investment of Phoenix client and corporate assets as part of their ongoing collaboration.
Permira Holdings’ deal to acquire Ergomed is being funded with support from Blackstone’s credit unit in the latest sign that that private lending firms are taking buyout business from traditional lenders including banks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Apollo Global Management is pitching in to find a buyer for Victory Park Capital’s Perch, one of the so-called Amazon aggregators it invested in after raising as much as $500m in debt from Apollo, as the PE major looks to avoid a write-down on its exposure, according to a report
HDFC Capital Advisors, a division of India’s biggest bank HDFC Bank, is looking to raise up to $2bn for a new private credit fund that will focus on deals in the real estate sector, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Barclays is planning a push into the $1.5tn private debt market and has allocated cash from its balance sheet to hold corporate loans and allow it to compete directly with private credit funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The board of Oak Brook, the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, has approved up to $555m in manager hires and commitments in the direct lending and credit funds space, according to a report by Pensions & Investments Online.
Bids to acquire two coal mines that BHP is seeking to offload in Queensland, Australia could be financed with the help of large loans of between $3bn and $4bn from private credit funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A group of private-credit lenders led by Golub Capital, Ares Management Corp, Blue Owl Capital, and Oak Hill Advisors, are in talks to extend a $3.25bn loan to Hyland Software Inc, so the company can refinance existing debt, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Roark Group, the private equity firm that has agreed a $9.6bn deal to acquire sandwich chain Subway, is planning to borrow nearly $5bn to fund its investment in what would be the largest whole-business securitisation deal ever, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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