Private Equity Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Private credit lenders and banks are vying to offer debt financing for a potential acquisition of US education software provider PowerSchool Holdings, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter. Banks are also said to be offering competing packages that include a smaller amount of debt and preferred equity.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Hercules Capital: 9.5% dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) specializes in high-yield loans to start-ups that have raised funding from venture capitalists in the technology, healthcare, and energy sectors. Ares Capital: 9.3% Data source: Ares Capital. Should you invest $1,000 in Hercules Capital right now?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5% Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a BDC that invests in technology, life sciences, and sustainable energy businesses. The company typically supports start-ups that have raised funding from venture capital or private equity firms and are looking to augment the balance sheet with some debt.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Investing $100,000 (split evenly) across these three leading BDCs could add $10,000 of dividend income to your portfolio this year. Hercules Capital: 10.3% dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a BDC that focuses on technology, life sciences, and sustainable energy businesses. Ares Capital: 9.6%

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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 Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. The Ares portfolio is diversified across 466 borrowers backed by 222 private equity sponsors that invest in those borrowers’ equity.

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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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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Menlo Park, CA and Birmingham, AL – May 4, 2023 – Oak Hill Capital (“Oak Hill”) has committed $150 million in primary capital to Lit Communities (“Lit”) to further fund and accelerate the construction of Lit’s fiber-based network in unserved and underserved communities across the United States. Stephens Inc.

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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. Suken is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities as well as providing strategic and operational support to portfolio companies. Suken Vakil , Partner, joined JMI in 2012.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

For decades the private equity model seemed unassailable, transforming the industry’s image from Barbarians at the Gate to crucial pillar of capitalism. Many were acquired at the buyout boom’s zenith in 2021 and 2022, and often paid for by piling them up with floating-rate debt. Surging borrowing costs have stalled that engine. “On

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He also spent time at Sebus and More Capital before launching his own firm in 2001. And proprietary trading is using the firm capital to kind of buy it and also to distribute it, to syndicated it more broadly at the same time. That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell?

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steven Klinsky, New Mountain Capital , is below. Eventually, Steve takes his experience and knowledge and stands up his own firm, New Mountain Capital, which is one of the largest private equity shops in the world. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Armen Panossian, Oaktree Capital Management , is below. Armand Posiion is head of performing credit at Oaktree Capital Management, where he works with the likes of, of Bruce Kosh and Howard Marks. We returned a lot of capital. Another extra, extra special guest. The sector was perfect.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

UK sponsor-backed financing activity experienced a modest slowdown in Q3 2024, as ongoing M&A sluggishness and seasonal dynamics impacted deal flow, according to the latest data from global investment bank, Houlihan Lokey.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

AGL Credit Management, Barclays private credit partner, has struggled to attract fresh investor capital nearly a year after announcing its strategic partnership with the bank, dampening expectations that the tie-up would bolster Barclays ability to compete in the $1.6tn private credit market, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

The transcript from this weeks, MiB: Sunaina Sinha, Global Head of Private Capital with Raymond James , is below. Sina Sinha is the global head of Private Capital Advisory group for Raymond James. Ena has a unique perch in the world of not only venture and angel investing, but most especially private equity and private capital.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Then all of a sudden it would not be an appropriate place for fiduciary capital. You know, it was sort of not considered an appropriate place to invest that kind of capital. He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim. Sounded wonderful.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

billion) funds approach to investing. After nearly 20 years in investment banking, at Deutsche Bank and then Credit Suisse, in 2013 he moved to Borealis, OMERS infrastructure arm, to run infrastructure globally and then head the capital markets team. And hes used that vast and varied experience to revamp the C$138.2

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. And I also spent a year there, working for the chief credit officer at GE Capital, learning all the different business lines at GE Capital. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from GE Capital to Lazard next.

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