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Notable Transactions: Q2 2017

09.13.17

(Article from Registered Funds Alert, September 2017)

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A list of notable transactions that occurred in the second quarter of 2017, including M&A transactions and closed-end fund initial public offerings.

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M&A Transactions

Acquiror

Acquired or
Target Company

Type of Transaction
and Status

BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with approximately $5.4 trillion AUM

Scalable Capital, an Anglo-German digital investment manager

Acquisition of minority position. BlackRock led a €30 million funding round for Scalable alongside its two existing German venture capital backers.

DiMeo Schneider & Associates, L.L.C., an asset manager with approximately $66 billion AUM

ORION Investment Advisors, a registered investment adviser

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

Domain Timber Advisors, LLC,
a registered investment adviser and an affiliate of Domain Capital Advisors, LLC with approximately $5.3 billion AUM

Timbervest, LLC’s fund management business

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

Dyal Capital Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman Group with approximately $351 million AUM

TPG Sixth Street Partners, global credit and credit-related investment firm affiliated with TPG Holdings with approximately $20 billion AUM

Acquisition of a passive, non-voting minority interest (terms not disclosed)

Dyal Capital Partners, a division of Neuberger Berman Group

Atalaya Capital Management, a private credit and special opportunities alternative investment manager with approximately $2.5 billion AUM

Acquisition of a passive, non-voting minority interest (terms not disclosed)

HighTower Advisors, LLC,
a national adviser-owned financial services company

Lee Equity Partners, a New York based private equity firm with approximately $6.4 billion AUM

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

Invesco Ltd., an independent investment management firm

Source, an investment firm and majority owned by an affiliate of Warburg Pincus

Acquisition. Transaction includes $18 billion in Source-managed AUM, plus approximately $7 billion in externally managed AUM

MainSource Financial Group,
a community-focused, financial holding company with assets of approximately $4.6 billion AUM

Capstone Investment Management, LLC, an independent firm

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

RMB Capital, an independent, diversified financial services firm
with approximately $6.7 billion AUM

VennWell, LLC, a financial planning and investment management firm with approximately $250 million AUM

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

Rosemont Investment Partners, LLC, a specialist private equity firm

Hartland $ Co., LLC, an institutional and wealth advisory firm with approximately $18 billion AUM

Acquisition of minority position (terms not disclosed). Management-led recapitalization.

Schroders plc, a global investment manager with $490.7 billion AUM

Adveq Holding AG, an asset manager investing in private equity globally with $7 billion AUM

Acquisition
(terms not disclosed)

KKR & Co. L.P., a global investment firm, and Stone Point Capital LLC, a financial services-focused private equity firm with $13 billion AUM

Focus Financial Partners, a partnership of independent, fiduciary wealth management firms

Acquisition of a majority position (terms not disclosed)

Touchstone Advisors, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western & Southern Financial Group

Sentinel Asset Management, Inc.,
a Vermont-based diversified asset management firm and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of National Life Holding, with $5.54 billion AUM

Acquisition of certain assets of Sentinel Asset Management, Inc. related to thirteen Sentinel funds being reorganized into Touchstone funds

White Oak Equity Partners, a private equity investor focused on acquiring minority GP interests in hedge funds with approximately $2 billion AUM

ROW Asset Management, systematic quantitative global macro investment firm with over $800 million AUM

Acquisition of minority position (terms not disclosed)

Closed-End Fund Initial Public Offerings

AllianzGI Convertible & Income 2024 Target Term Fund (NYSE: CBH)

Amount Raised
(Inception Date):

$165 million (June 27, 2017)

Investment
Objective/Policies:

The Fund’s investment objectives are to provide a high level of income and to return at least $9.835 per common share (the original net asset value per common share of beneficial interest before deducting offering costs of $0.02 per share) to holders of common shares on or about September 1, 2024. The Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its managed assets in a diversified portfolio of convertible securities and income-producing debt instruments. It is expected that a portion of the Fund’s income-producing debt instruments will consist of high yield securities (sometimes referred to as “high yield” or “junk” securities), which are securities that are, at the time of investment, rated below investment grade (below Baa3 by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or below BBB- by either S&P Global Rating Services or Fitch Ratings Inc.) or that are unrated but determined by the Investment Manager to be of comparable quality. A portion of the Fund’s portfolio is also generally expected to consist of senior secured loans. The Fund will invest primarily in the securities or instruments of U.S. issuers.

Manager:

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC

Book-runners:

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated,
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, and UBS Securities LLC