Shore Capital Partners (“Shore” or “the Firm”), a private equity firm focused on lower-middle market investments, today announced the closing of its inaugural Healthcare Advantage Fund (“Advantage Fund”), second Business Services Partners Fund (“Business Services Fund II”), and first Shore Search Partners Fund (“Search Fund”).

FirstLight Fiber, the Northeast U.S.’s largest independent fiber bandwidth infrastructure provider with 25,000 fiber network route miles and more than 125,000 addressable locations, successfully raised $120 million in new strategic debt financing. This transaction is part of a global refinancing effort this year at FirstLight and follows the five-year senior secured infrastructure debt financing package the company announced in April 2024.

Today, Kramer Levin announced that it formalized a multidisciplinary private credit practice, leveraging the firm’s depth of industry knowledge and extensive experience across the borrowing and lending community to continue providing clients with comprehensive support for an asset class that plays an indispensable role in today’s dynamic finance market.

Trinity Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIN) ("Trinity"), a leading provider of diversified financial solutions to growth-oriented companies, today announced the commitment of $40 million in growth capital to Beam Benefits ("Beam"), a digitally native employee benefits company.

TAB Bank has extended a $10 million revolving Asset-Based Loan (ABL) to Mobility Trust Group, a company specializing in financing mission-critical assistive technology products, including wheelchair-accessible vehicles and home accessibility equipment for people living with disabilities. The loan enables Mobility Trust to secure the liquidity needed for growth while continuing to focus on the needs of a vital and underserved community.

Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), the leading artificial intelligence (AI) lending marketplace, today announced a programmatic purchase commitment from funds managed by Blue Owl Capital Inc. (“Blue Owl”). Blue Owl’s Alternative Credit strategy will purchase up to $2 billion of consumer loans on the Upstart platform over 18 months. The transaction includes an initial acquisition of a $290 million personal loan portfolio, which closed in September.

Middle-market transactions are powering a rebound in exits as private equity-backed IPOs track for their best year since 2021. Buyout funds tallied 1,700 exits this year through end of the third quarter, a total 10% higher than the 1,530 exits through recorded in the same period a year ago, according to an S&P Global Market Intelligence analysis of Preqin data.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market: PGC) and Peapack-Gladstone Bank are proud to announce that Michael Anthony Guarino, Esq. has joined the Bank as a Senior Vice President, Attorney.

XP Factory PLC on Wednesday announced the completion of its new GBP10 million revolving credit facility with Barclays Bank PLC, amid a growth in free cash flow. The Crawley, England-based entertainment company operates the Boom Battle Bar and Escape Hunt brands.

Castlelake, L.P. ("Castlelake"), a global alternative investment manager specializing in asset-based private credit, today announced that it has entered into a forward flow agreement with Alma ("Alma"), a Buy-Now Pay-Later (BNPL) solution company in France, to purchase over €3 billion of short duration payment facilities originated online and in stores over a 2.5-year period.

Third Coast Super Holdings, LLC ("Third Coast") is pleased to announce that on September 25, 2024 its wholly-owned subsidiary, Third Coast Infrastructure, LLC, successfully raised $1.025 billion of debt capital financing, comprising a $925 million 6-year Term Loan B and $100 million 5-year Revolving Credit Facility.

Georgia Banking Company, Inc. ("GBC"), the parent company of Georgia Banking Company, and Primary Bancshares Corporation ("PBC"), the parent company of Georgia Primary Bank, jointly announced today the signing of a definitive agreement under which PBC will merge with and into GBC in a stock and cash transaction with an aggregate value of approximately $27 million.

Global consulting firm J.S. Held, proudly celebrating 50 transformative years, acquires Stapleton Group and announces the creation of the Strategic Advisory practice under the leadership of Michael Jacoby, CTP. The Stapleton Group acquisition further strengthens J.S. Held’s restructuring capabilities, spanning bankruptcy, receiverships, turnarounds, ABCs, and other financial advisory services.

Trillium Acquisition Corp. (TSXV: TCK.P) ("Trillium" or the "Company") announces pursuant to the business combination agreement entered into between the Company and Bankview 1827 Investment Corp., Capitol Hill 1426 Investment Corp., and Sunalta 1509 Development Corp. (collectively the "Vendors"), and affiliated entities, dated May 17, 2024 (the "Business Combination Agreement"), the Company intends to provide Bankview 1827 Investment Corp.

EnWave Corporation (TSX-V:ENW | FSE:E4U) (“EnWave”, or the "Company") announced today that it has signed a revolving credit facility agreement (the “Credit Facility”) with Desjardins Tech & Innovation Banking of the Desjardins Group (“Desjardins”), the largest financial cooperative in North America. The amount available to the Company under the facility is calculated as the lesser of $5 million and a function of royalties, receivables and inventory.

On October 4, 2024, AeroVironment, Inc., as borrower, and its wholly owned subsidiaries Arcturus UAV, Inc. and Tomahawk Robotics, Inc., as guarantors, entered into that certain Third Amendment to Credit Agreement relating to its existing Credit Agreement, dated as of February 19, 2021

Aequum Capital is excited to announce that it has recently provided a $15 million revolving line of credit to a Denver-based distributor of pet products. This strategic credit facility enables the company to leverage its accounts receivables and inventory, allowing it to bring key supplier payables current and place new inventory orders.

MONTICELLOAM, LLC (“MonticelloAM”), a specialized multifamily and seniors housing bridge lending platform, and its affiliates announced the closing of $59,250,000 in bridge and working capital financing for a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in Illinois.

Moritt Hock & Hamroff is pleased to welcome Sidney Balaban, Danielle Halevi, Juliette Matchton, and Sam Tanenbaum as members of its incoming class of 2024 law school graduates.

US Capital Global is pleased to announce the elevation of Prodi Bhattacharya, Ph.D., to the distinguished role of Partner, Structured Credit and Equity. In this capacity, Dr. Bhattacharya will spearhead US Capital Global’s European and Middle Eastern operations from the group’s London headquarters, which was established in 2020.