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- Exclusive: Apollo launching commercial finance business
The firm is setting up an asset-based lending (ABL) business and fund, with the help of MidCap Financial, a healthcare-focused ABL lender Apollo acquired last year.
- Ares and GE back £187m financing for Montagu
Both lenders and their JV provided financing for Montagu’s acquisition of UK-based Open GI.
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- Assets rise at Ares Management, net income falls
The decline in profit was attributed to lower performance earnings at Ares Management's tradable credit group.
- Mack and Sotoloff launch real estate credit platform
The Mack family and Peter Sotoloff, formerly of Blackstone, are starting a real estate debt platform to invest in the US and Europe.
- TPG hires Ares manager
Phil Fretwell, who works in the direct lending group of Ares Management, is set to join TPG in November.
- Ares and GE hit €1bn milestone
The European JV which primarily provides unitranche loans is almost 60 percent invested.
- Ares CRE unit obtains new funding
The real estate focused arm of Ares Management, led by Todd Schuster (pictured), has finalised a $180m deal with MetLife and a $308m securitisation of commercial real estate loans with another subsidiary.
- Ares Capital’s profit decreases but activity picks up
Although deal-making activity by Ares was off to a slow start at the beginning of Q2, it picked up later in the quarter and is shaping up to be even stronger so far in July.