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www.buyoutsnews.com October 9, 2017 • Issue 21 BUYOUTS Vol. 30, No. 21, October 9, 2017 Building through the peak CONSISTENT Firms pursue buy-and-build EXECUTION TAKES strategies to navigate YOU HIGHER. Q3 in Review frothy markets Side-by-side. That’s where we start and where we remain throughout the lifecycle of a transaction. For more than two decades, our innovative financing solutions, reliable deal execution and sophisticated perspective on the middle market have made all the difference. 28 View our completed transactions at Antares.com Consistency by design. Q3 IN REVIEW Tax-reform plan raises questions about interest deductibility 6 GPs navigate high prices through relationships, buy-and-build 28 KKR’s sale of Capsugel headlines M&A exits in booming Q3 50 U.S. PE fundraising may reach post-crisis record 58 5 Questions: Sun Capital’s Edwards on storm-disaster planning 98 It’s budget planning season... luckily, help is on its way! Are your compensation practices competitive? 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Bayside seeks buyer for Jackson Hewitt 25 CalPERS taps Meketa adviser on infra instead of StepStone 10 Wealth manager HighTower Advisors is on the block 25 Sales Director: Robert Raidt Recent LP Commitments 10 Strategies out of the auction for BluePay 26 [email protected] (646) 356-4502 Washington connects with Wellspring, New Mountain 12 Waud builds in payments, scoops Anovia, TrustCommerce 26 Wellspring discounts fees for large LPs in Fund VI 12 Customer Service: Idaho PERS distributions from PE reach record in Q1 13 LEVERAGED LOANS [email protected] San Diego CERS readies $375 mln over three years 14 (800) 455-5844 or (646) 356-4509 Europe leveraged-loan market shows strength, depth 27 M-F 9am-5pm EST Michigan Q2: heavy bets on megafunds 14 Ratings Wrap-Up 27 Distributions slip as capital calls surge at LACERS 15 Reprints: Please visit www. 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Strattam inks first close, completes Doxim add-on 16 BUYOUTS BEAT 98-99 President: Jim Beecher Crescent sees $1 bln final close for new lending fund 16 [email protected] Francisco Partners V could raise up to $3.75 bln 17 LAST WORD (646) 356-4501 Napier Park’s fintech team targets $250 mln for Fund II 18 PE gets its hearing 100 Buyouts Insider Davidson Kempner eyes $1.2 bln for private credit 18 Private equity cartoon 100 9 East 38th Street New MainStream Fund III target is $350 mln 19 11th Floor Hark Capital targets $203 mln to lend to PE, VC funds 19 New York, NY 10016 www.Buyoutsnews.com Apax raises $1 bln for tech growth investments 20 (646) 356-4509 Fax: (301) 287-2887 Permira eyes debut fund in tech growth 20 Stonepeak infra Fund III may reach $7 bln 21 Cove Hill closes debut, with long duration, on over $1 bln 21 Buyouts, ISSN 1040-0990, is published 25 times per year by Simplify Compliance LLC. Annual subscriptions cost USD $2,997 per copy. For back issues and single copies please call (+1) 800.455.5844. Entire contents copyright © 2017 by Simplify Compliance LLC. Reproduction in any form is prohibited “[The Trump interest-deduction plan] without the express written consent of specifically [calls] out C corps. Does this Simplify Compliance LLC. mean there will be loopholes for other types of corporate structures?” —Jeremy Swan, principal, CohnReznick p6 2 | BUYOUTS | October 9, 2017 www.buyoutsnews.com COMPANY INDEX A,B I,J,K P,Q,R Abbott Capital 19 Idaho’s Public Employee Retirement System 13 Pamplona Capital Management 23 Advent International 25, 26, 50 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund 19 Pantheon 19 Alinda Capital Partners 51 Incline Equity Partners 16 Peak Rock Capital 14 Apax Partners 20 Irving Place Capital 24 Pegasus Capital Advisors 14 Apollo Global Management 3, 13, 14, 51, 58 J.H. Whitney Capital Partners 24 Pennsylvania Public School Aquiline Capital 20, 25 Jefferson River Capital 22 Employees’ Retirement System 12 Audax Private Equity 22 JW Childs 23 Permira 20 Avista Capital Holdings 51 Kansas Public Employees Retirement System 12 PIMCO 23 Bain & Co 21, 58 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co 3, 14, 20, 25, 51 Portfolio Advisors 15 Bain Capital 21, 24, 28 Provident Healthcare Partners 22 Bayside Capital 25 Quantum Energy Partners 99 Blackstone Group 21, 24 Rhode Island State Investment Commission 18, 59 Bregal Sagemount 23 L Riverside Co 16 Brockway Moran & Partners 23 L Catterton 23 Lee Equity Partners 25 Leerink Transformation Partners 3 Leonard Green & Partners 23 S,T C,D Lightyear Capital 23, 25 Sage Road Capital 99 California Public Employees’ Longford Capital Management 3 San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System 14 Retirement System 8, 10, 58 Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System 15 Scopia Capital Management 22 Carlyle Group 23, 25 Los Angeles County Employees’ Sequoia Capital 24 Citi Capital Advisors 18 Retirement Association 8, 59 Silver Lake 13, 14, 58 Clayton Dubilier & Rice 58 Lovell Minnick Partners 25 State of Michigan Retirement Systems 14 Clearview Capital 29 StepStone Group 14, 60 Cove Hill Partners 21 Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners 21 Crescent Capital Group 16 Strattam Capital Partners 16 Crestview Partners 14 M Sun Capital Partners 98 CVC Capital Partners 13, 14, 25 MBF Healthcare Partners 19 TA Associates 21, 25, 26 Davidson Kempner Capital Management 18 Meketa Investment Group 10 TCW Group 23 Menlo Ventures 14 Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana 13, 19, 21 Milestone Partners 23 Technology Crossover Ventures 20 Millennium Technology Value Partners 20 Temasek Holdings 23 E,F,G Minnesota State Board of Investment 12 Tenex Capital Management 16 Enhanced Equity 13, 19 Thoma Bravo 20 First Reserve 99 Thomas H. Lee Partners 21 Francisco Partners 17, 23 TPG Capital 13, 23 GCM Grosvenor 14 N TriVest Partners 3 General Atlantic 25 Napier Park Global Capital 18 TSG Consumer Partners 14, 28 General Catalyst 21 North Castle Partners 23 TwinBrook Capital Partners 29 Great Hill Partners 23, 51 Nebraska Investment Council 17 Great Point Partners 22 New Hampshire Retirement System 16 GTCR 23, 26 New MainStream Capital 19 Guggenheim Partners 18 New Mountain Capital 3, 12, 58 U,V,W University of Texas Investment Management Co 59 Veritas Capital 13 Vista Equity Partners 14, 23, 26, 58 H O Warburg Pincus 26 H.I.G.