ADIA anchors Pemberton's new NAV Financing Strategy

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Jun 03, 2024, 04:30 ET

LONDON, June 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pemberton Asset Management ("Pemberton"), a leading European private credit manager, today announces that a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has agreed to anchor Pemberton's new NAV Strategic Financing strategy.

Together with commitments from other investors, ADIA's investment is expected to result in a first close for the NAV Strategic Financing Strategy in excess of U$1bn in the coming weeks.

NAV Strategic Financing capitalises on the growth of the private equity fund finance market to provide non-dilutive strategic capital solutions to private equity GPs and funds. Pemberton anticipates the strategy will provide GPs with growth capital to support increased fund commitments, succession planning and strategic initiatives, whilst also providing capital for accretive portfolio company investments such as bolt-on acquisitions.

The NAV Strategic Financing Strategy is a natural extension of Pemberton's market-leading direct lending platform, which currently offers lending solutions for individual assets, and enables Pemberton to offer a broader range of products to its private equity buyout community.

"ADIA's anchor commitment reflects the growing interest in the NAV asset class, the strength of Pemberton's private credit platform and our ability to deliver a broad range of financing solutions to private equity managers. We believe that NAV financing will become a core fund financing tool and, with ADIA's support, we look forward to offering this innovative solution to our clients," said Symon Drake-Brockman, Managing Partner of Pemberton.

Hamad Shahwan Aldhaheri, Executive Director of the Private Equities Department at ADIA, commented, "Pemberton is one of the leading private credit managers in Europe with a highly experienced team and a deep network across the GP community. NAV Financing is one of the fastest growing asset classes in private credit and we are confident Pemberton's new strategy will prove attractive to a broad range of GPs."

Anis Ghamgui, Head of Middle East and Africa, added: "Investors from the Middle East Region have been at the forefront of building strategic partnerships with pre-eminent managers and together are jointly shaping the trends in the investment industry. They play an important role in the evolution of private credit with the objective to create long-term value in support of economic growth worldwide. We are proud to partner with ADIA in this process."

Notes to Editors:

All information is correct as of 3^rd June 2024 unless otherwise noted.

About Pemberton Asset Management

Pemberton Asset Management ('Pemberton') is a leading European private credit manager. We offer an innovative, highly diversified range of credit strategies for investors and borrowers. Built on more than a decade of experience developing market shaping solutions, we provide market leading credit analysis through a substantial and independent credit function and local market expertise through our 10 European office network. All investments are conducted with a clear focus on sustainability by embedding ESG criteria into our investment processes and monitoring the ESG credentials of our borrowers. We are relentless in creating new opportunities and building open and transparent relationships, bringing clarity to complex credit markets for our clients.

About Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Established in 1976, ADIA is a globally diversified investment institution that prudently invests funds on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi through a strategy focused on longterm value creation.

For more information: www.adia.ae.

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