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Zurich-based Julius Baer will exit the private debt market and is preparing to write off its CHF606mn ($700mn) exposure to Signa, the now-collapsed luxury developer owned by René Benko whose portfolio included German department store KaDeWe and the Chrysler Building in New York. The private bank’s CEO, Philipp Rickenbacher, has also resigned.
Littlejohn & Co, a Connecticut-based investment firm specialising in private equity and debt investments in middle market companies with $8bn in AUM, has entered into an agreement to sell Dana Kepner Company, a Colorado-based supplier of water works material and services, to Core & Main, a specialised distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products and services.
TJC, a middle-market private equity firm investing primarily in North American businesses, has held the final closing of Resolute Fund VI, with total capital commitments of $6.85m, an amount significantly above its initial $6bn hard cap.
OceanSound Partners, a private equity firm that invests in technology and technology-enabled services companies serving government and highly-regulated enterprise end-markets, has appointed Julie Marracino as Principal of Investor Relations.
The PGA Tour has closed its $3bn investment deal with Strategic Sports Group, a group of US-based sports team owners which is led by Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group and includes Steve Cohen, Owner of the New York Mets, Arthur Blank, Owner of the Atlanta Falcons and Marc Lasry, former Co-Owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Sticks’n’Sushi, the Copenhagen-based restaurant and takeaway group operating 27 sites across the UK, Denmark and Germany, has been acquired by McWin Capital Partners, a London-based private equity firm with Gail’s, Vapiano and L’Osteria on its portfolio.
Global investment manager M&G Investments has appointed Emmanuel Deblanc as Chief Investment Officer of the company’s £74bn private markets business, which invests across private credit, structured credit, impact and private equity, real estate and infrastructure.
The asset management arm of French multinational bank BNP Paribas is targeting a €1bn ($1.1bn) fundraise for a new direct-lending fund that will focus on medium-sized businesses, and will differ from the bank’s other private credit facilities by offering unitranche loans, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Private investment major KKR & Co has held the final close of KKR Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors II with $6.4bn in capital commitments, making it the largest ever fund focused on Asia Pacific infrastructure-related investments.
Direct lender and credit manager Golub Capital has acted as administrative agent and sole lead arranger on a $2.11bn unitranche facility to refinance Aptean’s existing first lien and second lien broadly syndicated loan facilities.
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