The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

While Hercules and Horizon typically compete for the same business, Ares is slightly different because it focuses on middle-market companies that may fall off the radar of investment banks and other BDCs. The company's superior reputation and generous returns have attracted some of the largest investors in the world.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Private equity giant Apollo is making a push into the high-grade debt market, an area long controlled by traditional banks, steered by former UBS, Swiss Re, and the World Bank executive Jamshid Ehsani, who joined the firm in 2010, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 Ares Management Corp. has raised A$2.6

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

Rather, many of the companies in Ares' portfolio are lower middle market businesses that go overlooked by investment banks or private equity investors. ARCC Price to Book Value data by YCharts At a price-to-book (P/B) ratio of just 1.1, Ares stock is trading essentially in line with its 10-year average.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The industry growth is being driven by investment bank caution around underwriting leveraged buyouts given volatile market conditions. Blackstone, meanwhile, is helping fund the combination of New Mountain Capital’s HealthComp Holding Company LLC and Marlin Equity Partners’ Virgin Pulse.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

Leveraged buyout financings accounted for almost half (42%) of all UK transactions in H1 2024, compared with just 29% in H1 2023, according to the latest MidCapMonitor report by global investment bank Houlihan Lokey.

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American Investment Council

MAY 6, 2024

Industry Expansion: Loans from private credit lenders have served as a lifeline to small businesses nationwide, particularly those that cannot qualify for loans from traditional banks or need capital beyond what banks can provide. Since the end of 2021, private credit has funded more non-leveraged buyouts each quarter than syndicates.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Hercules is different from a typical bank as it tends to offer more flexible financing options. So while Hercules may be assuming more risk than a bank would typically underwrite , the company attaches high coupon rates onto its term loans and also usually negotiates for warrants as part of the deal structure. Hercules Capital: 10.6%

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Financial Times M&A

MAY 29, 2023

Lenders return to funding leveraged buyouts after painful year in which fees were hit hard

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

You might be wondering what makes Hercules stand out from a traditional bank. Well, banks may pass on making loans to start-ups given their risk profile as money-burning businesses. This is an interesting strategy, and has helped Ares earn a positive reputation among businesses that often go overlooked by large investment banks.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

However, these instruments — historically within the domain of banks, with a focus on maximising yield — will push leverage levels in financial markets higher. The trend towards asset-based finance, Moody’s says, will see alternative asset managers building out their own origination capabilities, increasing their market share.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The report cites CEO Marc Rowan as unveiling the ambitious growth plan during the firm’s investor day presentation, signalling a strategic shift as companies increasingly turn to private capital for financing, rather than traditional bank loans. In every market, banks are being asked to do less, and investors are being asked to do more.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

So the current business climate — bedeviled by climbing interest rates and tighter access to bank loans — has Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti champing at the bit. “We As the Federal Reserve Bank ratchets up interest rates, Ares Cap monitors borrowers’ balance sheets for any signs of stress.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 25, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital. 6 committee’s legacy.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Unlike a traditional bank that may pass on a start-up due to its risk profile, Hercules specializes in term loans and other debt structures for venture-backed companies. However, the catch is that this debt typically carries a much higher interest rate than a loan from a bank. This is where Hercules can add value.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

There are many companies in need of capital or advisory services, but they are not big enough or deemed suitable by investment banks. This is where Ares comes into the equation. Like Hercules, Ares also has a low nonaccrual rate of just 1.7%.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Winter focuses on cross-border and UK acquisition finance and restructurings, advising investment banks, alternative credit providers, corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors on various debt capital structures in the European large-cap and mid-cap markets.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ultimately though, whether a record $10bn+ deal is agreed or not, depends on how well investment banks, the traditional source of finance for leveraged buyouts, manage to regain the ground they have lost to private lenders over the past 18 months or so, said Hirschmann.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Historically, the focus was on leveraged buyouts and cost-cutting to boost profitability, but this approach is no longer sufficient. With over 15 years of experience in investment banking, asset management, and private equity, Lou helps align Zanders’ value proposition with investor value creation strategies.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Dee Kuchukulla (New York) guides leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on an array of complex transactions, from leveraged buyouts and sales to carve-outs, cross-border deals, joint ventures, and take-privates across industries. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Guillaume Boulanger, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Drakai Capital – 
Guillaume’s journey in the financial domain, beginning in 1998, has seen him at the helm of risk management and structured credit roles across reputable global firms like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets and Merrill Lynch/Bank of America.

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 12, 2022

Banks no longer retain a monopoly on financing blockbuster leveraged buyouts

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Fund managers took different approaches during this time, some riding out the storm with cost cuts, “hibernating” businesses with sufficient reserves, and others simply handing over the keys of a few companies to banks so they can focus on the future.

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JMI Equity

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Prior to joining JMI, Larry was an analyst in the multi-industries group in the investment banking division at Merrill Lynch & Co. Larry is currently a director of Apptegy, Bloomerang, ChurnZero, Incident IQ, RainFocus, and Raptor Technologies. Suken Vakil , Partner, joined JMI in 2012.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Bank Street Group LLC served as exclusive financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP and Maynard Nexsen served as legal counsel to Lit Communities and existing equityholders in connection with this transaction. SCP provides public and private companies with capital for purposes of growth, recapitalization, and leveraged buyouts.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Credit crusaders fill the wall street void Submitted 27/06/2023 - 1:54pm This article first appeared in the March 2023 T ech Buyouts Insights Report Private credit funds could become a more permanent fixture in tech’s leveraged buyout market thanks to their speed of execution and reliability, especially in challenging macroeconomic conditions.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Tighter lending conditions and the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse caused traditional lenders to step back. With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. A low leverage profile also lowers fund risk in the event asset values fall or losses increase.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Bloomingdale’s filed for bankruptcy, S-C-I-T-V filed for bankruptcy, and for the first time banks, which owned the debt, wanted to sell. At the time, you’re early in your career, you have some experience, and an MBA when, when you first started hearing that from banks that, Hey, we got all this Bloomingdale debt.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And then very soon after, you know, bear Stearns fails, Lehman Brothers fails, the cracks were massive and there were so much for selling from the trading desks at the banks. And we, we feel that a lot of phone calls, I think the most nervous we became was when the banks started failing. That had mismatched assets.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

Major Canadian pension funds have regularly tested the market for secondaries in recent years, but the greater clarity around the path of interest rates – and the prospect of possible rate cuts from central banks starting later this year – has more recently made it easier for buyers and sellers to agree on prices. Is this possible?

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that the proposed financing will tap the leveraged loan market and private credit funds. The first tranche of the financing — a €1.95bn ($2.1bn) leveraged loan — was launched on 19 November and will part fund the spin-out of jobs platform The Stepstone Group.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, Klinsky was co-founder of the leveraged buyout group at Goldman Sachs, where he helped execute over $3 billion of pioneering transactions for Goldman and its clients. He joined RenMac after spending seven years at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, where he was a Sr.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

When buyout groups do look to sell, PIKs, NAV loans and other kinds of excess baggage are creating obstacles. At the same time regulators are becoming ever more fearful about what’s being hidden from view, and the threat of contagion from any private-markets meltdown to the banking system and real-economy jobs.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. This is making the deal easier to complete at a time when high interest rates and market volatility have made debt for leveraged buyouts scarcer and more expensive. The transaction is expected to close by year end, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Advisors Goldman Sachs & Co.

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