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Despite critics warning of a potential private credit bubble, the booming $1.7tn asset class is set for further expansion, according to a report by Bloomberg citing Blackstone’s CEO Stephen Schwarzman.
Global private investment firm Carlyle has named Lindsay LoBue as the firm’s new Chief Operating Officer, effective 1 July, 2024. As COO, LoBue will oversee the firm’s operational strategy with a focus on growth and client service.
Blue Wolf Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm specialising in the industrial and healthcare sectors, has appointed Samantha Dwinell as an operating partner with a focus on human capital.
Omni Partners has bolstered its team with the appointment of Wayne Story and Phill Rowland as Partners. Both will bring additional valuable experience to the founders and management teams that Omni invests in, according to the investment firm.
Investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP) have completed the sale of World 50 Parent LLC and its related subsidiary companies (World 50), to a single asset GP-led continuation fund investment vehicle managed by an MSCP affiliate.
Crypto miner Bitdeer Technologies Group is in discussions with private credit firms as it looks arrange a $100m financing package to ramp up its bitcoin mining capabilities, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Since 2018, European credit funds have fully or partially equitised at least 61 loans provided to companies backed by PE firms, according to ION Analytics’ Debtwire, which provides deal-making insights for leveraged capital markets professionals.
Partners Group, a Swiss-based global private equity firm with $147bn in assets under management, is targeting $12bn for another private equity secondary strategy fund that will focus on deals in the Asia Pacific region, according to a report by Reuters.
An unsettling mix of macroeconomic conditions and uncertainty has led to another year of slowdown in Asia Pacific private equity (PE) markets, with deal value falling to $147bn, and fundraising declining to its lowest level in a decade, according to a report by Bain & Company.
Nearly two-thirds of PE and VC firms are planning to raise funds in 2024, with the sector anticipating future interest rate cuts from central banks, according to a new survey by Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) canvassing the opinions of 128 private markets firms.
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