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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.
JPMorgan Chase has promoted Reuben Ong, who has worked at the firm for more than 13 years, to Head of Southeast Asia Debt Origination, which will see him leading the private credit financing business in the region, according to a report from Reuters.
Private debt and infrastructure are set to remain the preferred alternative asset classes among South Korean institutional investors for the second year running in 2024, according to a survey by The Korea Economic Daily.
American businessman John Angelos has agreed to the sale of the Baltimore Orioles to a group led by David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of private equity firm The Carlyle Group, as part of a transaction valuing the baseball team at $1.7bn.
The private equity arm of PPM America (PPM), PPM America Capital Partners (PPMACP), has held the final closing of its eighth co-investment fund, PPM America Private Equity Fund VIII (together with its parallel fund, Fund VIII), at $600m.
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