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Private equity investment firm Ama Capital has appointed PE-backed executive Dominic Miller as its latest operating partner. Miller is the firm’s tenth appointment this year to an operating partner role.
PAG has made one of the largest private equity investments in China this year, committing about $2.8bn to take control of a mall-operations business developed by Dalian Wanda Group, according to a report by Bloomberg. In the biggest cross-border deal in China’s commercial real estate sector since 2021, the firm has helped put together $6.3bn for a fund composed of some of the malls.
Ares Management has entered into a strategic partnership with Mubadala Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council to create a new investment vehicle focused on acquiring minority stakes in mid-size private equity firms, according to a report by Bloomberg.
UK supermarket Asda has completed £568m of sale-and-leaseback transactions across 24 stores and a distribution depot, in a move seen as strengthening the capital structure under majority owner TDR Capital, according to a report by Reuters.
TPG’s Rise Fund has made a strategic minority investment in Healthcademia, an international healthcare education group, joining majority shareholder G Square Capital to support the company’s next phase of growth.
A consortium of private credit investors, including Antares Capital, KKR, BlackRock, and Carlyle Group, is preparing to convert debt into equity at 48Forty Solutions, roughly a year after backing Summit Partners’ $1.75bn acquisition of the pallet company, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
South Korean private equity firm MBK Partners has wrapped up fundraising for its latest Asian buyout fund, securing $5.5bn – roughly 20% below its original $7bn target – amid a challenging year for the firm and the broader region, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Horizon Group, a global provider of specialised international freight forwarding focused on time-critical marine spare parts logistics, has announced that Gal Dayan has been appointed as the firm’s new COO, effective April 15, 2025. Horizon is a portfolio company of GHK Capital Partners LP, a middle-market private equity firm based in Greenwich, CT.
Private equity firms are increasingly tapping the high-yield bond market to extract cash from portfolio companies in order to fund payouts to themselves and their investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Blue Owl Capital is considering revisiting a proposed merger between its publicly traded Blue Owl Capital Corporation (OBDC), and its privately held sibling, Blue Owl Capital Corporation II, contingent on an improvement in OBDC’s share price so that the fund is not trading at a discount to its net asset value, according to a report by Reuters citing people familiar with the matter.
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