Oak Hill Advisors (OHA) has achieved a report last shut on its first-vintage senior personal lending fund, securing commitments of $17.7bn (£13.2bn).
The $108bn international credit-focused various asset supervisor stated the capital was raised throughout its levered and unlevered methods, together with $8bn of fairness commitments.
“OHA Senior Non-public Lending Fund (OLEND) is OHA’s largest flagship fundraise in our historical past,” stated Glenn August, founder and chief government at OHA. “The group is trying ahead to seizing in the marketplace alternative in senior personal lending, and we’re grateful for our partnership with current and new buyers.”
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OLEND focuses on direct lending to bigger corporations, concentrating on first-lien and unitranche loans to companies producing greater than $75m in EBITDA. The fund primarily invests in North America throughout a broad vary of industries.
The investor base contains international establishments equivalent to pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, endowments and household places of work. OHA stated its partnership with T. Rowe Worth, for which it serves because the funding agency’s personal markets platform, supported the fundraise.
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“OLEND is a pure extension of OHA’s established credit score investing platform, which has developed considerably over latest years to capitalise on the accelerated progress of the personal credit score market and the engaging relative worth of unitranche financings,” stated Alan Schrager, portfolio supervisor and senior associate at OHA.
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