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Notable Transactions: Q1 2019

05.30.19

(Article from Registered Funds Alert, May 2019)

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A list of notable transactions that occurred in the first quarter of 2019, including M&A transactions and closed-end fund IPOs.

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M&A Transactions

Acquiror

Acquired or
Target Company

Type of Transaction
and Status

Atria Wealth Solutions, a wealth management solutions holding company that serves financial advisors and institutions and has more than $50 billion in assets under administration

NEXT Financial Group, Inc., an independent broker-dealer that serves financial advisors and their clients and has approximately $13 billion in assets under administration

 

Acquisition

(terms not disclosed)

Beacon Investment Advisory Solutions Services, Inc., a wealth management firm with approximately $2.2 billion in assets under administration

 

Tirschwell & Loewy, Inc., an independent RIA with approximately $750 million in AUM

 

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (“BAAM”) Strategic Capital Group affiliated funds, BAAM is an alternative asset management and financial services firm with approximately $78 billion in AUM

 

GI Partners, a private middle-market alternative asset manager that has raised more than $17 billion in capital from institutional investors

 

Acquisition of minority interest

(terms not disclosed)

Brookfield Asset Management Inc., an asset manager with more than $350 billion in AUM

 

Oaktree Capital Group, LLC, an investment manager with $120 billion in AUM as of December 31, 2018

 

Acquisition through purchase of all outstanding Class A units for either $49.00 cash or 1.0770 Class A shares of Brookfield per unit, at the option of the Oaktree Class A unitholders, for a premium of 12.4% per unit based on the closing price of Brookfield shares and Oaktree units on March 12, 2019. Unitholders of Oaktree Capital Group Holdings, L.P. (“OCGH”), which holds all of Oaktree’s Class B units, will sell 20% of their units to Brookfield for the same consideration as the Class A holders. Upon consummation Brookfield will hold approximately 62% of the outstanding units of Oaktree and, pursuant to the liquidity schedule, Brookfield could own 100% of Oaktree as early as 2029. The transaction also provides for a $225 million termination fee under certain special circumstances.

Calamos Investments, a global investment management firm headquartered in Chicago with approximately $20 billion in AUM

 

Timpani Capital Management LLC, a boutique investment manager focused on small- and mid-cap growth investing and with more than $300 million in AUM

 

Acquisition

(terms not disclosed)

Carillon Tower Advisors, Inc., an asset-management firm that serves institutional clients and had $64.6 billion in assets under management and advisement as of January 31, 2019

 

ClariVest Asset Management LLC, an asset-management company and hedge fund sponsor that has $7.3 billion in assets under management and advisement as of January 31, 2019

 

Acquisition through affiliate that will increase its existing 45% stake to 100%

(terms not disclosed)

Citizens Financial Group, a bank with $158.6 billion in assets as of September 30, 2018

Clarfeld Financial Advisors, LLC, a wealth management and financial advisory firm specializing in HNW and UHNW clients and having approximately $6.6 billion in AUM and $900 million in assets under administration

 

Acquisition

(terms not disclosed)

Goldman Sachs Asset Management, an asset manager with more than $200 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2018

 

Aptitude Investment Management, an investment firm specializing in hedge fund services for large institutions that manages approximately $3.5 billion in discretionary assets

 

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

Kudu Investment Management, LLC, a registered investment adviser that specializes in minority equity investments

 

Versus Capital Advisors, LLC, a real assets investment manager that manages approximately $4 billion for investors

 

Acquisition of minority interest

(terms not disclosed)

Medalist Partners, LP, an alternative investment manager with approximately $2.25 billion in AUM

 

JPM Credit Advisors, an investment manager with expertise in managing CLOs

 

Acquisition of majority interest

(terms not disclosed)

Mercer Global Advisors Inc., a RIA with approximately $15 billion in AUM

 

Arbor Asset Management, LLC, a wealth management firm with $350 million in AUM

 

Acquisition

(terms not disclosed)

Resolute Investment Managers, Inc., (“Resolute”) a multi-affiliate asset management platform with $71.2 billion in AUM as of September 30, 2018

 

SSI Investment Management, an institutional investment manager that specializes in risk-mitigation strategies for institutional and HNW investors and had $1.9 billion in AUM as of September 30, 2018

 

Acquisition of a majority interest

(terms not disclosed)

Shelton Capital Management, an asset manager with more than $1.85 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2018

 

Cedar Ridge Partners, LLC, a private RIA offering alternative investment products

 

Acquisition

(terms not disclosed)

The Mather Group, a fee-only wealth management firm that has more than $7 billion in assets under advisement

 

Astraeus Advisers, a multifamily office with more than $1 billion in AUM

 

Acquisition

(terms not disclosed)


1st Quarter 2019 Closed-End Fund Public Offerings

PIMCO Energy and Tactical Credit Opportunities Fund

Structure:

Non-diversified, limited term, closed-end management company

Investment Objectives/Policies:

The Fund’s primary investment objective is to seek total return, with a secondary objective to seek to provide high current income. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by focusing on investments linked to the energy sector and investments linked to the credit sectors. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by utilizing a flexible multi-sector approach to investing across various asset classes. Top-down and bottom-up strategies are used to identify multiple sources of value to seek to generate returns. With PIMCO’s macroeconomic analysis as the basis for top-down investment decisions, the Fund seeks to offer investors an actively-managed portfolio that aims to capitalize on what PIMCO believes are attractive opportunities across markets and the capital structure. In selecting investments for the Fund, PIMCO expects to develop an outlook for the energy and credit sectors and the overall economy, perform fundamental analysis of the credit markets and the underlying businesses owned and operated by energy companies and use other investment selection techniques. In order to maintain flexibility and to have the ability to invest in opportunities as they arise, it is not an objective of the Fund to focus its investment in any specific geographic sector (although it may, but is not obliged to, in practice). The proportion of the Fund’s assets committed to investments with particular characteristics (such as type of energy product, debt instrument, entity structure or geography) is expected to vary based on PIMCO’s outlook for the economy as a whole, the energy sector, and the credit markets. Similarly, although the Fund has the capability to use the types of investments outlined in this policy, it is possible that the Fund will not invest in certain instrument types all of the time or at all. While these analyses are performed daily, material shifts in investment exposures typically take place over longer periods of time.

Manager:

Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC

Distributor:

American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC