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HIG Bayside Capital (Bayside), the special situations and distressed debt affiliate of HIG Capital, has promoted Mathilde Malezieux to managing director.
Malezieux has over sixteen years of investment banking and distressed investment experience. She previously worked at Nomura where she focused on European senior and mezzanine debt investments.
Galaxy Digital has led a $20m Series A funding round in Skolem Technologies, according to a report by CoinDesk.
Point72 Ventures, Jump Crypto, Fenwick & West, Morpheus Ventures, and Dragonfly Capital, also participated in the round.
Skolem, a provider data and trade execution services for decentralised financial markets, will use the capital to grow its team, and increase the platform’s capabilities.
The outlook for private credit markets looks strong as investors plan to increase their investment in these assets. The size of allocations is also set to grow. These findings are detailed in the Global Private Debt Insights Report 2022, published by TMF Group and Private Equity Wire.
This second edition of the annual private debt survey reveals that investor return expectations are somewhat muted despite the strong appetite for the asset class.
The full report outlines the trends, challenges and needs of private debt investors in the current environment.
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Recover, a materials science company and producer of sustainable, premium recycled cotton fibre and cotton fibre blends, has closed a new $100 million minority equity capital investment led by the Sustainable Investing business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs).
Bain Capital’s special situations fund for the Asia-Pacific region has closed with capital commitments of $2 billion, in excess of its $1.5 billion target, according to a report by Private Equity Insights.
The fund, Bain’s second Asia-focused strategy, will invest in a range of asset types but will have a particular focus on real estate.
Barnaby Lyons, one of the investment firm’s managing directors, says Bain now has $5 billion of capital to invest in the region across debt capital structures, structured capital deals, distressed assets, physical assets and growth equity transactions.
Alternative credit specialist CIFC Asset Management (CIFC) has appointed Conor Daly, former managing director, head of European credit at Onex credit, as head of European credit.
Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health (Wavemaker 360), a venture fund focused on early-stage (primarily seed) healthcare disruptors and innovators, has closed its Fund II at $64 million, surpassing its first fund nearly four times over.
Fund II’s Limited Partners (LPs) include hundreds of healthcare organisations and prominent healthcare executives across the United States, as well as some international investors.
The goal for Fund II is to invest into 40-50 early-stage companies (US and to a lesser extent international), with several investments already made into some of the most compelling healthcare start-ups in the areas of health-tech, digital health, medical device, telehealth, artificial
Mercer Global Advisors (Mercer Advisors), a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) owned jointly by Oak Hill Capital and Genstar Capital, has acquired Bivin and Associates, a wealth management firm headquartered in Oklahoma, with assets under management (AUM) of approximately $130 million.
Bivin was founded in 1994 by Wm Stan Bivin, CFP, President. Bivin’s entire team will also be joining Mercer Advisors.
Kinzie Capital Partners (Kinzie) portfolio company, Chelsea Lighting (Chelsea), a lighting and lighting controls distributor, has named Michael Toolis as chief executive officer.
Toolis, who currently serves as an Operating Partner at Kinzie and maintains his seat on the Chelsea Board, steps into his new role effective immediately.
Inflexion Private Equity is to sell its investment in Global Reach Group (GRG), a UK foreign exchange specialist providing payments and hedging services to businesses and private individuals, to FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc (NYSE: FLT), a global business payments company.
The announcement is the latest in a record period of realisations by Inflexion during 2022 including the successful exits of Marley, Alcumus and Goals with a total valuation in excess of £2.3 billion.
Global Reach Group helps clients manage their cross-border payments and foreign exchange exposure through a range of product solutions which are tied to fundamental business needs. The firm
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