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TOP STORY: Apollo Global Management and Blackstone have completed a $35bn financing package to support artificial intelligence infrastructure for Anthropic, marking one of the largest private credit transactions ever executed, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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In Alternative Views, Private Equity Wire® goes behind closed doors with those in the know to get the latest on private markets. In this episode we discuss individuals investing in closed-ended funds with Claire Madden, co-founder and managing partner at Connection Capital.
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TOP STORY: New York-based fund administration group Gen II Fund Services, which is backed by Hg and General Atlantic, is exploring a potential sale that could value the business at up to $6bn, according to a report by the Financial Times citing unnamed market sources.
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Keen to capitalise on the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, firms are weighing up how best to get data centre exposure while managing long-term risk.
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Oxford BioMedica has indicated it could consider a private equity takeover under the right circumstances, even after rejecting multiple unsolicited approaches from Sweden’s EQT earlier this year, according to a report by the Financial Times citing comments from its chief executive.
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Brookfield Asset Management is accelerating a major expansion into AI-linked infrastructure, committing capital across data centres, power systems and compute-related assets as part of a broader strategy to raise around $50bn focused on enabling AI growth, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: Software investing was rocked at the start of this year by a selloff in firms with heavy SaaS exposure, as new Anthropic models fuelled concerns that the sector would be overrun by AI. But not all firms are abandoning SaaS. Software-focused firm Lead Edge Capital is targeting SaaS businesses that it believes will remain resilient to this disruption.
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Applied Aerospace & Defense, a government and defence contractor supported by private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group, has secured $650m through its US initial public offering after pricing shares at $20 apiece, according to a report by Reuters citing a statement from the company.
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Ardian is backing the development of a large-scale AI data centre and research campus outside Paris in a project valued at up to €5bn, as private capital increasingly flows into Europe’s digital infrastructure build-out, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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In Alternative Views, Private Equity Wire® goes behind closed doors with those in the know to get the latest on private markets. In this episode we discuss democratisation with Mitchell Caplan, CEO of retail-focused private markets platform Willow Wealth.
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