Rocade Partners with Barings and EJF Capital

Rocade launched as a specialty finance company focused on litigation finance with a long-term investment approach, in partnership with Barings, an investment manager.

February 9, 2023 Barings | Brian Roth | Bryan High | Cooley | EJF Capital | Emanuel Friedman | Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson | Jacob Cantrell | Nixon Peabody | Rocade Ian Koplin

Ares Management Acquires AMP’s PrivateMarketsCo Infrastructure Debt Platform

Ares Management and its subsidiary, Ares Holdings, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AMP’s PrivateMarketsCo Infrastructure Debt platform, an infrastructure debt investment platform with approximately $8 billion in assets under management as of Sept. 30.

December 27, 2021 Andrew Pike | Ares Management | Ares Real Assets Group | Bill Benjamin | Broadhaven Capital Partners | DLA Piper | Keith Derman | Kirkland & Ellis | Michael Arougheti | Morgan Stanley | Nixon Peabody | Patrick Trears | PrivateMarketsCo Ian Koplin

KeyBank Provides Debt Financing for Palladin’s Investment in Leapfrog

KeyBank provided debt financing for Palladin Consumer Retail Partners’ investment in Leapfrog Brands and a revolving credit facility to support future growth.

January 7, 2021 Anders Petersen | Austen He | Glen Gilmore | Jill Pearson | KeyBank | Krauter & Company | Kurt Sward | Leapfrog | Livingstone Partners | Mark Schwartz | Morgan Lewis & Bockius | Nixon Peabody | Palladin Consumer Retail Partners | Retail Technology Group | Rick Ellison | RSM US | Steve Pinelli Phil Neuffer

ABI: COVID-19 Exacerbates ‘Pre-Existing’ Conditions of Financially Struggling SNFs

Those practicing in and for skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs) expected failure and death at rates greater than other healthcare settings because of “pre-existing conditions” of the industry, according to an article in the ABI Journal.

September 28, 2020 ABI Journal | American Bankruptcy Institute | David Hoffman | David Hoffman & Associates | Jerry Seelig | Louis J. Cisz III | Nixon Peabody | Seelig+Cussigh Ellie Delany

ABLs Stand to Benefit from Retail Grocery Business Shifts

Dramatic shifts in the retail grocery business continue to create opportunities for asset-based lenders and private-equity investors, a Tiger Group expert noted in a Sept. 12 panel discussion with colleagues.

September 19, 2013 Amazon | Asset-Based Lenders | Deloitte | Nixon Peabody | retail grocery business | Target | Tiger Group | Trader Joe’s | Walmart | Whole Foods ABF Journal