Oliver Smiddy
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The asset manager, whose co-head of private debt is Juri Jenkner, has raised more than $800m for its latest leveraged loan fund and private debt-focused separate accounts.
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The fledgling Spanish distressed-for-control investor is looking to raise €500m for its first distressed debt fund.
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The global fund manager, headquartered in Melbourne Australia, continues to add to the infrastructure debt team led by David Cooper.
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The HIG credit affiliate has partnered with M7 Real Estate to acquire a portfolio of industrial properties.
There's much to do in terms of educating LPs and capitalising on the sheer enormity of the private debt opportunity globally, but as befits a market that's no stranger to entrepreneurialism and hard work, the US is leading the way.
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The pair provided mezzanine and senior debt respectively to back F&C REIT Asset Management's latest investment.
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The team which spun out of Indigo Capital to form a separate French entity has also hired a third partner, former Société Générale MD Nathalie Bleunven.
The London-headquartered buyout firm plans to return $285m to investors as part of a dividend recap of its legal outsourcing portfolio company.
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The investment group is part of a group of firms investing up to $1.25bn in BlackBerry, after plans to buy out the company collapsed.
A year on from Private Debt Investor’s inaugural European roundtable (‘Brave New World’), we pulled together five of the private debt industry’s leading figures to debate the merits of the asset class, the challenges it faces, and its progress over the last 12 months.