The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

But with so many opportunities out there, it's challenging to identify companies that both pay dividends and consistently perform at a high level. One good place to source ideas is to look at business development companies (BDCs). You might be wondering what makes Hercules stand out from a traditional bank.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For some, investing in companies taking advantage of emerging trends, such as artificial intelligence (AI), can be lucrative. However, this approach requires investors to speculate about which companies are best positioned to win long term. In exchange for capital, founders will give up equity in their company.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Speaking in the sidelines of this week’s IPEM conference in Cannes, the report quotes Hirschmann as telling Bloomberg TV that as large businesses “tend to be safer credits…there’s certainly a reason to be lending to those big companies and still generate 9-10% gross yield”.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Janet Coscino (Chicago) leads complex transactions for private equity firms, as well as public and private companies, across a variety of industries. Jamie Darch (Chicago) is a health care lawyer who guides life sciences and health care companies and investors on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters.

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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. These functions – ranging from cash management to risk mitigation – play a critical role in ensuring that portfolio companies are financially agile and equipped to support growth. Treasury 4.x,

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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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JMI Equity

OCTOBER 1, 2024

JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software companies, is excited to announce that JMI Partners, Larry Contrella and Suken Vakil have been named to GrowthCap’s Top Software Investors of 2024. He assists portfolio companies with growth initiatives, joint ventures, and exit opportunities.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Lit was founded in Birmingham, AL, in 2019 and leverages public-private partnerships with local governments and municipalities to build and operate last-mile fiber networks. The company now has networks in place, under construction or in planning in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The future is extremely bright at Lit.” Stephens Inc.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

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. Investors simply want firms to return to their founding mission: Improving the companies they own.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

There aren’t a lot of companies, and there aren’t a lot of people that have the historical perspective on the rise of private equity like Michael Fish does. 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.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I found this conversation to be absolutely fascinating if you’re at all interested in things like hard debt and what distressed asset buying is like, and what it’s like to take over a company, not through its equity, but through its defaulted debt. I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. I know I did.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I mean, if you’re buying debt in, in, you name it company at 20 cents to 60 cents, and they’re owned by, you know, marquee private equity firms, what’s gonna happen with that? And we, we feel that a lot of phone calls, I think the most nervous we became was when the banks started failing.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They are not interested in simply flipping companies or buying firms, and then quickly selling them what they do. They are experts at digital transformation across a wide variety of sectors in the investing world. They come in, they take a stake in a company. They, they’re one of the few companies that specialize in this.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

I was working directly with the CEO and president of both companies, but I realized that the biotech vertical was not my playing field for the long term, hence the NBA at Harvard to find another career path and, and that led me into asset management. I now, I’m chairperson of the board of a publicly listed company called SFC Energy.

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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. GE had a benefit in over other companies in that regard because they had a AAA credit rating. You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then. They just ignored me.

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