Anna Devine
TowerBrook LBO is KKR’s fourth investment from its new European direct lending strategy.
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Crescent Capital is set to hit its €500 million target for Crescent Europe Speciality Lending.
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Aviva Investors has invested alongside the European Investment Bank in a senior debt financing of roughly £218 million, PDI understands.
Pension fund interest in private debt is increasing. But just how are these institutional investors allocating?
An agreement is unlikely to be reached by the early bird deadline, Bloomberg reports.
Deal flow in mainland Europe was stronger in 2014, according to Deloitte’s latest deal tracker.
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Chief executive of iwoca predicts £100 million in lending over the next 12 months.
Värde Partners, KKR and Deutsche Bank have teamed up to buy the consumer business.
A move to non-bank funding will be encouraged in Europe under proposals from the Capital Markets Union (CMU), Steven Maijoor, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, told delegates at the National Association of Pension Funds Conference in Edinburgh.
The pension fund manager has created a new framework for procurement while tendering for the debt mandate.