The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

Unlike Hercules, Ares doesn't typically work with high-profile tech companies that have raised funds from venture capital firms. Rather, many of the companies in Ares' portfolio are lower middle market businesses that go overlooked by investment banks or private equity investors.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 8, 2024

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company and France’s national investment bank Bpifrance will jointly invest in global technology investment company Partech’s latest Africa-focused venture capital fund – Partech Africa II, as it looks to build its portfolio of assets globally.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based Previously, Michael spent over 25 years in investment banking, working across asset classes, in various roles at Nomura Securities, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. billion ($3.72

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Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Axial is excited to release its Q3 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. These quarterly league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks active on the Axial platform in Q3. In Q3, 571 sell-side investment banks and M&A advisors brought a total of 2,360 deals to market.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Prior to joining QIC, Sulaiman served as Investment Manager at UK mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital and as Investment Executive at investment firm CDC Group (now British International Investment). She began her career in investment banking at the Royal Bank of Canada in London.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Dr Ashish Patel as a Managing Director within its capital markets group in expanding its equity private placement capability and presence in Europe. Patel will be based in London.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

He started his career as a banker at JP Morgan, UBS and Crédit Agricole CIB, in Paris and London, executing over $70bn worth of transactions in M&A, debt and equity capital markets and structured finance. He later served as Head of Investment Banking at HSBC in Saudi Arabia and as Deputy General Manager at Gulf Bank in Kuwait.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 18, 2024

He focuses on advisory and execution of venture capital, private equity and infrastructure fundraisings. James previously worked at Beijing-based private equity fund TRE Capital, as well as Barclays Investment Bank and Morgan Stanley.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

At APG, Wang structured and underwrote GP-led continuation funds, LP fund portfolio purchases, portfolio sales and primary fund investments. She has structured and underwritten deals across the whole spectrum of private equity including buyout, growth and venture capital assets.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Before going public, Oklo received funding from a number of high-profile venture capital firms. SPACs are a somewhat unusual way of going public, as they circumvent traditional underwriting processes at investment banks. Image source: Oklo Investor Relations. Oklo looks impressive on the surface, but.

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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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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Union Square Advisors, a technology-focused investment bank, is expecting to see an increase in technology sector deal-making in 2024, with recent positive momentum continuing over the course of the year.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 22, 2024

Hercules Technology Growth Capital: 9.1% dividend yield Hercules Technology Growth Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a BDC that specializes in making high-yield loans to emerging technology businesses. During the early days of a start-up, founders will initially look to venture capital (VC) investors to help raise funds.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

The company does not generally work with technology start-ups or businesses backed by venture capital. There are many companies in need of capital or advisory services, but they are not big enough or deemed suitable by investment banks. Instead, Ares has its eyes on middle-market opportunities.

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FinSMEs

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The round was led by venture capital arm of theEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), with participation from existing investorsKhosla VenturesandAlmaz Capital, and included previously signed venture debt from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

the central bank of China is cutting the interest rate that determines the cost of borrowing money. As the cost of borrowing drops, financial companies and investment banks in both the U.S. and China will, in turn, have a lower bar to clear in terms of the return they need on their investments.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We continue to invest in our corporate investment banking business with new co-heads of equity capital markets. We also hired a new head of trust services and chief fiduciary officer in our wealth and investment management segment and a new head of affluent and premier banking in consumer, small, and business banking.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 9, 2024

Our target clients encompass a diverse range of alternative investment funds, including Private Equity, Buyout, Infrastructure, Growth Capital, Venture Capital, and Private Debt funds. 12 markets of the region are covered by subsidiary banks. What kind of funds are your target clients for RBI’s Fund Hub?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Some 54% of the leaders and top-level executives, including Chief Operating Officers, Managing Partners, and Chief Investment Officers at large private equity firms surveyed for the report said they are targeting either a “pure” AI business or a company that creates AI-infused products.

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FinSMEs

JULY 11, 2023

The round was led by SEB Greentech Venture Capital, with participation from Graduate Entrepreneur, the European Investment Bank, and returning investor Forward.One. Rocsys, a Rijswijk, Netherlands-based provider of autonomous charging solutions for electric transportation, raised €33M in Series A funding.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We are also investing in our branches and have refurbished over 460 branches during the first three quarters of this year. We continue to hire proven leaders in our corporate investment bank. We also hired a new vice chair of corporate banking, who is focused on helping us continue to expand and grow that franchise.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

They're often doing a startup because that's what it seems smart people do these days--like the same way the best people piled into investment banking or consulting years ago. People who just weren't inspiring at all and couldn't get me on board for any kind of ride.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

We've also been investing in the corporate investment bank. CIB revenue grew 26% from a year ago, and our investment banking and trading market shares increased. For commercial clients, we continued to invest in order to have the right people and the right capabilities to better penetrate our customer base.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2025

We created a strategic partnership with Centerbridge Partners and introduced Overland Advisors to better service our commercial banking customers with a direct lending product. We have targeted our investment banking capabilities toward our commercial banking clients. Turning to capital and liquidity on Slide 10.

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Axial

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In venture capital, there’s the product demo and 10-slide pitch deck. In the world of M&A, it’s the “investment teaser”. 3 Investment Banking League Tables These league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks that were active on the Axial platform in the first three quarters of 2023.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 12, 2024

We continue to generate strong fee-based revenue growth with increases across most categories compared to a year ago due to both the investments we're making in our businesses and favorable market conditions with particular strength in investment advisory, trading activities, and investment banking.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

We named Barry Simmons as the new head of national sales and wealth and investment management. As the slide shows, our office loans at the end of the second quarter were primarily in corporate investment banking and that is also where we had the most nonaccrual loans in the highest level of allowance for credit losses.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chern, an ex-Morgan Stanley banker, still sees a “golden period” of at least a decade with “minimal opposition,” noting there’s just a handful of infrastructure-focused funds in the region, compared to hundreds of its peers focused on areas like property and venture capital. “We

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. I’m from a — a very small town in the middle of Pennsylvania.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

BARATTA: The industry wasn’t called private equity; it was called venture capital and it wasn’t — RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? Venture capital was the nomenclature for everything that was basically a private investment. RITHOLTZ: — firms or private equity firms? BARATTA: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And so now we’ve built out the, the space further and our hopes are to launch additional products in the space over the next several years and really build a very multidimensional, multi-asset platform that will address private equity mostly in venture credit as well as as real estate. Are, are the parallels there at all?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I was actually running the Investment Banking Club at BYU, and you know, thought I was interested in that, interested in going to Wall Street. It used to be the private market were where you went to bet, speculative investments. I was tentatively committed to go to Lehman Brothers. It was called an alternative asset class.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

We continue to make investments in talent and technology to strengthen Corporate and Investment Banking. More than 50 new senior hires have joined our CIB since 2019, with many of these in key coverage and product groups within banking. Turning to Corporate and Investment Banking on Slide 14.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Venture capital, private equity, just were not recruiting for those spaces. SHAW: So AltFinance is focused on building diversity in the alternative investment industry. RITHOLTZ: Alternatives being venture capital, private equity, anything else? It’s Tony Ressler of Ares, Marc Rowan of Apollo Global.

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The Big Picture

JULY 30, 2023

JAMA Network ) • The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech : This new insight — that venture capital is predatory pricing in a new wrapper — could prove transformative. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Wall Street Journal covering finance, investment banking and M&A.

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The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

When I hear someone has an engineering degree, I tend to think of venture capital, not private equity. They could have been in investment banking. With no further ado, my discussion with Alpine Investors’ Graham Weaver. Let’s jump right into this, starting with your background.

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