Ares Management Originates $2.1B in New Commitments in Q1/23
Funds managed by the credit group of Ares Management closed approximately $2.1 billion in U.S. direct lending commitments across 35 transactions during Q1/23.
Funds managed by the credit group of Ares Management closed approximately $2.1 billion in U.S. direct lending commitments across 35 transactions during Q1/23.
Thompson Street Capital Partners completed a growth investment in OpenClinica, a cloud-first, unified eClinical platform that accelerates clinical research by allowing users to automatically capture data from Electronic Health Records while integrating with existing clinical workflows.
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St. Louis, MO, and portfolio company, PestCo Holdings, acquired the assets of Romney Pest Control and Phenom Pest Protection.
Ares Management’s credit group closed approximately $5.7 billion in U.S. direct lending commitments across 45 transactions during the third quarter of 2022 and approximately $32 billion in direct lending commitments across 251 transactions in the last 12-month period.
Audax Private Debt, as administrative agent and sole lead arranger, provided a unitranche credit facility to support the acquisition of MediaRadar by Thompson Street Capital Partners, a St. Louis-based private equity firm.
Abacus Finance Group served as administrative agent and sole lead arranger for senior secured credit facilities to support the refinancing of LifeSpan BioSciences by Thompson Street Capital Partners.
Golub Capital acted as the administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner on a GOLD facility to finance Thompson Street Capital Partners’ acquisition of Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers. GOLD financings are Golub Capital’s one-loan debt facilities.
Abacus Finance Group served as administrative agent and sole lender for senior secured credit facilities to support the recapitalization of Custom Wheel House (CWH) by Thompson Street Capital Partners.
Abacus Finance served as administrative agent and sole lender in support of Thompson Street Capital Partners’ recapitalization of Palisade.
Abacus Finance Group served as administrative agent and sole lender for $22.5 million in senior secured credit facilities to support Thompson Street Capital Partners’ leveraged buyout of Transnet YX. Abacus also made an equity co-investment in Transnet YX.