J.P. Morgan Asset Management today announced a new sustainability-focused growth private equity investment team. The team will launch its first private equity strategy focused on investing in growth-stage private companies that drive resource efficiency and climate adaptation solutions across a range of industries. J.P. Morgan is anchoring the team's first investment strategy with an investment of up to $150 million, one of its largest capital commitments ever made into an alternative investment strategy.

Wingspire Capital LLC (“Wingspire”) achieved a milestone of exceeding $1 billion in commitments in just its second year of operations as it provided more than $600 million in senior secured financing commitments for 2021. Wingspire’s 2021 transactions ranged in size from $40 million to $200 million and included tailored “one-stop” financing solutions such as revolving lines of credit, cash flow loans, fixed asset term loans and other hybrid financing solutions.

Khalid Kahn has joined Aeon Investments, the London based credit-focused investment company, as a Managing Director in the investment team. With more than 20 years of experience, Khalid joins Aeon from Federated Hermes International where he was Senior Credit Structurer in the Fixed Income Group responsible for managing structured credit portfolios comprising regulatory capital trades and CLOs.

Highlights of the year included: a $35 million line of credit for a national guard and protection services company; a $20 million revolving line of credit obtained for a motor oil distributor; $12.5 million sub-debt for an online distributor of office products...

King & Spalding today announced that Sheel Patel has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in its New York office. Patel has more than a decade of experience working on complex commercial financing transactions across diverse industries.

White Oak Real Estate Capital (“WOREC”), an affiliate of White Oak Global Advisors, LLC, (“WOGA”) announced today that it originated $145.75 million of loan transactions in the multi-family and self-storage sectors in the fourth quarter of 2021. These announcements follow WOREC’s launch in July 2021.

J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC ("J.C. Flowers" or "the Firm"), a leading private investment firm dedicated to investing globally in the financial services industry, announced today that banking industry veteran Louis Vachon has joined the firm as an Operating Partner, effective immediately.

Columbia Bank today announced that a five-person commercial banking team has joined its Seattle office as the Bank continues to grow in this critical market. The financial services professionals joining include: Robert Boswell, Jocelyn Stockton, Riley Gaffney, Anna DeCaterina and Miranda Jones.

MidFirst Business Credit (MFBC) announced it has provided a $15 million working capital facility to Coast Medical Service, Inc. (“Coast Medical”). Headquartered in Los Angeles, Coast Medical is a healthcare staffing company that recruits and hires nurses for placement in both short-term and longer-term assignments at hospitals and other medical centers.

Maxim Commercial Capital (“Maxim”) announced it fulfilled the financing needs of small and mid-sized businesses (“SMBs”) in 41 states during 2021, despite global disruptions in the equipment industry and the lingering pandemic. Maxim lends from $10,000 to $3,000,000 secured by heavy equipment or real estate. Its creative solutions include leveraging borrowers’ real estate assets, up to 70% combined loan-to-value, to reduce the cash required to buy new equipment, to provide working capital and to restructure short-term debt.

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce the addition of two partners who are market leaders on environmental, social and governance, or ESG, matters. Sarah Fortt and Betty Moy Huber join the firm as partners in Austin/Washington, D.C. and New York, respectively, and will serve as global co-chairs of Latham's multi-disciplinary ESG practice alongside London partner Paul Davies.

Moritt Hock & Hamroff has announced that Leslie A. Berkoff, a Partner of the firm, has been recognized by Lawdragon as one of its 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers for 2022. The annual Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America is the most elite distinction in the profession, covering the best of the best in all practice areas.

Percheron LLC is the nation's leading energy related professional services company, offering specialized expertise in land, title, surveying, environmental, and engineering services. Its team of over 500 professionals can manage and execute electrical transmission, utility, oil and gas, wind, solar and rail projects of any size, coast-to-coast.

Northstar Capital (“Northstar”), a provider of junior capital for middle market private equity transactions, is pleased to announce its investment in LumiSource, LLC (“LumiSource”), a portfolio company of CID Capital (“CID”). Founded in 1997, LumiSource is a leading full-service supplier in the home décor and furnishings industry, selling stylish and affordable products across living, dining, office, and lighting categories.

King & Spalding has added David Ridenour, a structured finance and securitization partner, to its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) Practice Group in Washington, D.C. Ridenour represents issuers, borrowers, sellers, lenders, funds, purchasers and financial institutions in a variety of securitization and structured lending transactions.

Alleon Healthcare Capital ("Alleon"), a specialty finance company focused on providing healthcare accounts receivable financing, medical accounts receivable factoring, and cash flow solutions to medical providers in the U.S., recently closed a $500,000 medical accounts receivable financing facility with a Community Integrated Living Arrangement (“CILA”) provider located in Illinois (“Company”).

A&G Real Estate Partners is auctioning a portfolio of 12 multifamily buildings with a total of 30 units in New Rochelle—a rare opportunity given the tight supply of residential real estate in Westchester County. The sealed-bid deadline for the auction is February 23. A&G Realty Brokerage, LLC, is conducting the sale on behalf of a private seller.

Nabors Industries Ltd. ("Nabors") (NYSE: NBR) closed, on January 21, 2022, a secured $350 million revolving credit facility maturing on January 21, 2026. The new credit facility replaces the Company's 2018 Revolving Credit Facility, which would have matured on October 11, 2023. Institutions participating in the credit facility are Citibank, N.A., Goldman Sachs Bank USA, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Ellomay Capital Ltd. (NYSE American: ELLO) (TASE: ELLO) ("Ellomay" or the "Company"), a renewable energy and power generator and developer of renewable energy and power projects in Europe and Israel, today announced that Talasol Solar S.L. ("Talasol"), which owns a photovoltaic plant with installed capacity of 300MW in the municipality of Talaván, Cáceres, Spain and is 51% owned by the Company, achieved financial closing of the previously announced Facilities Agreement in the aggregate amount of €175 million provided by European institutional lenders.

Blue Ridge Bankshares, Inc. (NYSEAM: BRBS) (“Blue Ridge”), the parent company of Blue Ridge Bank, National Association, and FVCBankcorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: FVCB) (“FVCB”), the parent company of FVCbank, jointly announced today a mutual agreement to terminate their merger agreement, previously announced on July 14, 2021, pursuant to which the companies had agreed to combine in an all-stock merger of equals transaction.