Meteor5 Capital, which counts Mounir Guen, Loren Boston and Spanish private equity veteran Javier Loizaga among its partners, is raising a fund to back emerging managers.
2 min read · 09 May 2018
Listening to the attendees at ACG’s annual InterGrowth summit, one thing was clear: even in the current positive economic environment, M&A is not always easy.
2 min read · 08 May 2018
Distressed debt managers are shunning single-borrower credit investments as they face challenges in the due diligence process.
2 min read · 04 May 2018
Panellists at ACG’s annual conference provided some guidance for private equity professionals looking to strike out on their own.
3 min read · 04 May 2018
Growing demand for alternative investments and major fundraising for US and European direct lending pushed Ares’ results higher in the first quarter.
1 min read · 04 May 2018
The manager, which closed its latest fund on €870m in October last year, has provided a unitranche loan for Riga, Latvia-based GroGlass.
1 min read · 03 May 2018
Rather than piling into distressed strategies based on a hunch about the cycle turning, LPs may be better off diversifying by type of manager.
3 min read · 03 May 2018
The strategy will focus on floating-rate loans provided across the eurozone.
2 min read · 03 May 2018
The latest in the firm’s special situations series is almost twice as big as its predecessor and has $350m set aside for a ‘fund of one’.
2 min read · 02 May 2018