Articles from Golub Capital

Golub Capital today announced the launch of its GP-Led Secondaries investment strategy.

Today, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (“CMU-Q”) announced its partnership with Golub Capital, a leading private credit manager, in support of The Golub Capital Middle East Business and Finance Symposium.

Middle market private companies in the Golub Capital Altman Index grew earnings by 5% during the first two months of the second quarter of 2025. Revenue grew 2% during the same period.

Today, Golub Capital marked the five-year anniversary of its London office by announcing an expansion in its European direct lending strategy, a new and expanded London office location and record-breaking results.

Golub Capital today announced a large expansion of its program to support the development of next generation nonprofit board members.

Golub Capital announced that 2024 was marked by solid investor performance, strong deal activity with private equity sponsors, record fundraising, continued global expansion and growth in its impact philanthropy programs. For Golub Capital, 2024 represented another year of delivering consistent results for its stakeholders, demonstrating the reliability the Firm highlighted in the theme of its annual investor conference: “30 Years of Good Boring.”

Middle market private companies in the Golub Capital Altman Index grew earnings by 9% during the first two months of the fourth quarter of 2024. Revenue grew 6% during the same period.

Golub Capital today announced that it is opening an office in Abu Dhabi in ADGM and that it has appointed Naser Almutairi as Managing Director, Middle East. The Firm also announced it has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) for a license.

Golub Capital today announced a three-year partnership with the New York University Impact Investment Fund (“NIIF”), a student-led venture that drives impact capital toward early-stage social enterprises and provides students at NYU Stern, NYU Wagner and NYU Abu Dhabi with hands-on experience in managing an impact investing fund.

Golub Capital today announced partnerships with seven leading business schools to establish or expand Board Fellows Programs (BFPs) at each school. The BFPs prepare MBA candidates and alumni to become impactful nonprofit board members.

Middle market private companies in the Golub Capital Altman Index grew earnings by 8% during the first two months of the third quarter of 2024. Revenue grew 5% during the same period.

Middle market private companies in the Golub Capital Altman Index grew earnings by 11% during the first two months of the second quarter of 2024. Revenue grew 7% during the same period.

Golub Capital acted as Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner on a unitranche facility to support Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers (“Freddy’s”). The facility is composed of a term loan and a revolver; proceeds will be used to support Thompson Street Capital Partners’ (“TSCPs’”) refinancing of the Company’s existing first lien credit facility. Additional deal terms were not disclosed.

Golub Capital today announced the final close of its sixth credit opportunities fund, GEMS Fund 6, L.P. (“the Fund” or “Fund 6”), with $2 billion of investable capital.

Golub Capital today announced the launch of its Insurance Solutions team, a group of dedicated insurance and asset management professionals who will expand the way the Firm works with insurance company partners. Jennifer Potenta has joined the Firm to lead this newly formed team as Managing Director, Head of Insurance Solutions.

Middle market private companies in the Golub Capital Altman Index grew earnings by 11% during the first two months of the first quarter of 2024. Revenue grew 5% during the same period.

Golub Capital today announced that Shuji Hatsukaiwa has joined as Managing Director, Japan and will be based in the Firm’s newly-opened Tokyo office. In his new role, he will be focused on deepening relationships with investors across Japan.

Golub Capital acted as Sole Lender on a unitranche facility to support the acquisition of Agilio Software (“Agilio”) by Five Arrows and TA Associates (“TA”). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Golub Capital acted as Joint Lead Arranger on a unitranche facility to support the organic and inorganic growth strategy of German insurance broker MRH Trowe, a portfolio company of TA Associates (“TA”) and AnaCap.

Golub Capital acted as Sole Lender on a senior credit facility to support Thoma Bravo’s take private acquisition of German company EQS Group AG (“EQS”). Proceeds of the transaction will be used to fund future growth initiatives and provide capital for potential add-on acquisitions.

Golub Capital acted as Administrative Agent and Sole Lead Arranger on a $2.11 billion unitranche facility to refinance Aptean’s existing first lien and second lien broadly syndicated loan facilities.

Golub Capital today announced that Andrea Picard will be joining the Firm as Co-Head of Global Institutional Sales in March. Andrea has over 30 years of industry experience and is joining the Firm after more than a decade in institutional sales leadership roles at BlackRock, most recently as head of its U.S. Pensions business. Andrea will join Michele Joyeux as Co-Head of Global Institutional Sales - a combination that will bring together Golub Capital’s long history of nurturing win-win investor relationships with fresh perspective to raise the bar further.

Golub Capital marked the start of its 30th anniversary year and reported key milestones achieved in 2023. The Firm raised a record $13.9 billion of new investment firepower and grew capital under management to over $65 billion, a new high.1 The Firm also announced strong credit results and deal activity, closing $13.7 billion in financing commitments.

Middle market private companies in the Golub Capital Altman Index grew earnings by 16% during the first two months of the fourth quarter of 2023, the highest year-over-year earnings growth since Q2 of 2021. Revenue grew 7% during the same period.

Golub Capital announced today that it is one of the lead investors in Ruby Reinsurance Company (“Ruby Re”), a newly formed reinsurance sidecar vehicle sponsored by Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (“RGA”) that enhances RGA’s access to capital for their growing U.S. asset intensive business. RGA and Golub Capital have strategically partnered on a number of projects with over $1 billion invested or committed across multiple products. Deal terms were not disclosed.

Golub Capital today announced that Amy Chiang has joined as Managing Director, Greater China and Southeast Asia and will be based in the Firm’s newly-opened Hong Kong office. In her new role, she will be dedicated to building and strengthening relationships with investors in the Greater China and Southeast Asia region.