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Pathway Capital Management has closed on a USD1 billion private credit fund. Pathway Private Credit Fund II will provide debt financing in support of acquisition, recapitalisation, refinancing, and growth capital transactions sponsored by leading private equity firms.
To date, Pathway has committed more than USD5.7 billion to private credit opportunities since it began investing in the asset class in 1994, and has created more than 90 customised programs for its investors since its inception. Pathway has committed more than USD85 billion across a wide variety of private market strategies since its inception in 1991.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Harsh Agarwal as a Principal on its investment team. Agarwal, who is based in the Firm’s New York office, is principally engaged in evaluating and executing investments in the software and technology-enabled services sectors.Prior to CD&R, Agarwal spent nine years at EQT Partners in New York and TPG Capital in San Francisco, where he focused on transactions in the technology and media sectors. He began his career in the Technology, Media and Telecom group of the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co.
Agarwal earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has held the final close of its flagship US fund, HarbourVest Fund XI. The fund closed above its USD2 billion target at USD2.61 billion.“We continue to see strong demand for primary partnership funds, especially among US investors that are new to private markets, and global investors seeking exposure to North American assets,” says John Toomey, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners. “HarbourVest’s access to attractive managers, combined with our more than 35 years of portfolio construction experience and expertise, provides our investors with fully diversified, comprehensive fund portfolios that help meet their return objectives.”
Clean energy solutions provider, Logan Energy, has secured GBP1 million investment from Kelvin Capital via its International collaboration with Henan Lanxing Power Equipment Co Ltd (Lanxing) to build on its hydrogen technology capabilities and develop operations in the Chinese market.This joint venture with Lanxing will kick off in 2020 and will see Logan Energy perform similar business functions in China to its current hydrogen tech activities throughout the UK and Europe.
Lanxing has invested in Logan Energy’s integration expertise to develop the hydrogen market in China because there is currently no other hydrogen tech specialist like Logan Energy in the
Private equity specialist Jonathan Blake has joined Herbert Smith Freehills in London as the head of international private funds strategy.In this role, Blake will advise clients on their private funds requirements, drawing together the firm’s existing capabilities and experience, as well as generating new client opportunities through his network of private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit, venture capital and secondaries managers. His recruitment marks a major milestone in the development of Herbert Smith Freehills’ investment funds practice.
“Our private funds offering has grown rapidly in the last 10 years or so to cover more private funds work in private equity,
Funds managed by private equity firm Harvest Partners have made a substantial strategic investment in MRI Software, a specialist in real estate software solutions.
Nexxus has appointed Christianne Ibañez as head of Investor Relations. Ibañez has extensive experience in the financial sector having served in senior IR positions. She was previously Vesta’s Investor Relations Director, where she participated in the financial reconfiguration of the company. Ibañez prevously was also on ICA’s Finance and Investor Relations team.
Nexxus says: “We are confident that Christianne’s experience and professionalism will provide great benefits to the Nexxus’ diverse IR activities.”
ClearCourse has acquired Hart Square, a provider of specialist Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and digital consultancy services for charities, not-for-profits (NFP) and professional membership organisations across the UK.
The Foresight Global Real Infrastructure Fund (GRIF) has reached a Net Asset Value of GBP100 million in just seven months following launch in June 2019.The Fund has consistently outperformed its objective of UK CPI +3 per cent over the medium term, through its strategy of investing in renewable energy and infrastructure asset-owning companies. Total return to 31 December 2019 was 14.75 per cent, with a maximum drawdown of just 4.19 per cent since inception, materially lower than Global Equities, Infrastructure indices and other Global Listed Infrastructure Funds.
Foresight’s two OEICs are managed by the award-winning Foresight Capital Management team.
Global law firm Reed Smith has opened an office in Brussels with five partners, one counsel and two associates from five international law firms. All five partners are joining the firm’s Global Corporate Group.The firm now has five offices across the region and 30 throughout the world.
The new partners focus their practices on competition/antitrust, regulatory and trade work across a range of industries that align with the firm’s five core sectors: energy and natural resources, entertainment and media, financial services, life sciences and health care, and transportation.
The new capabilities in Brussels not only strengthen the firm’s already robust
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