The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

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. Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5%

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

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. During the first quarter of 2024, Hercules generated net investment income (NII) of $79 million, an increase of 21% year over year.

Leveraged Buyouts 130

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It specializes in an investment vehicle called venture debt. Typically, a start-up will raise funds during its early days from venture capitalists (VC) or private-equity firms. And yet, for the last few years, Ares stock has crushed a number of S&P 500 -themed exchange-traded funds (ETF). Hercules Capital: 10.3%

Leveraged Buyouts 130

Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Initial Public Offering Exchange-Traded Funds 130

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.

Debt 75

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? The amount of business that banks do with us now is more than it has ever been.”

Pension Funds 130

Pension Funds Buyout Leveraged Buyouts Asset Management 130

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. Rachel O’Brien (Washington DC) advises on the formation and management of private investment funds.

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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. For GPs, this shift necessitates integrating treasury optimization into their portfolio strategies, ensuring robust operational processes that will drive consistent returns for future fund generations.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Leveraged Buyouts 95

Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale. 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.

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Buyout Debt Leveraging Collateral 59

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.

Capital 40

Capital Leveraged Buyouts New York Stock Exchange Private Equity Firms 40

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. I get hired by Citibank in planning.

Debt 59

Debt Leveraging Banks Leveraged Buyouts 59

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. Michael Fisch : 00:07:15 [Speaker Changed] The largest fund then was KKR with $175 million. The second largest fund was Forman little with 150.

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

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.

Leveraged Buyouts 105

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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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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Leveraged Buyouts Debt Buyout Deal Flow 93

Private Equity Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

The agreement grants AGL the right of first refusal on Barclays private credit deals while also allowing it to participate in transactions underwritten by other banks. He cited AGLs investment expertise and credentials as key advantages. However, Barclays did not commit its own capital to the initiative.

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Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Funds Buyout 73

Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that private credit firms, including HPS Investment Partners and Ares Management, are among those vying to finance what would be one of the largest leveraged buyout (LBO) debt deals in over a decade.

Buyout 61

Buyout Financing Finance Leveraged Buyouts 61

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I ran the venture fund, did all the investing off the balance sheet. One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts. How long did you stay at Oracle? So yeah, it was fantastic.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss. billion) funds approach to investing. billion ($97.2

Buyout 52

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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. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. And I actually started out of business school.

Banks 103

Banks Mergers and Acquisitions Capital Companies 103

The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

Made the decision to leave just to try something new at that point, went to Harvard for my MBA and then had made the ch his choice at that point to switch out of biotech and interviewed with a whole bunch of of firms and ended up getting into the hedge fund world, doing capital raising for two large hedge funds. I use that day to day.

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