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Sandbrook Capital Raises $2.1 Billion to Back Climate-Infrastructure Deals
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Sandbrook Capital Raises $2.1 Billion to Back Climate-Infrastructure Deals

Dec. 14, 2023 6:30 am ET|WSJ ProSandbrook Capital has amassed $2.1 billion to invest in renewable-energy businesses, as the private-equity firm shifts its focus to the U.S. with its debut fund after making its first deals in Europe.The Stamford, Conn.-based clean-energy investor wrapped up its Sandbrook Climate Infrastructure Fund I with $1.5 billion, or 50% more than its initial $1 billion goal. The firm also collected slightly over $600 million for related co-investment vehicles, said Kenneth Ryan, a Sandbrook partner. Roughly 35 investors backed the fund, he said. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Property Crash Draws Short-Sellers. Better Late Than Never.
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Property Crash Draws Short-Sellers. Better Late Than Never.

With interest rate cuts looking more likely, now isn’t an obvious time to make bearish bets on real estate. Luckily for short sellers, the Fed probably won’t move fast enough to wreck their favorite new trade.Mortgage real-estate investment trusts, which offer bridging loans to commercial property owners, have caught the eye of short sellers. Carson Block’s Muddy Waters hedge fund announced a stake in blue chip Blackstone Mortgage Trust last week. Viceroy Research, the fund that previously bet against troubled real-estate stocks SBB and Adler Group, went public with a position in Arbor Realty Trust in mid-November.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Credit Suisse to Pay $10 Million After SEC Alleges Prohibited Underwriting, Advising
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Credit Suisse to Pay $10 Million After SEC Alleges Prohibited Underwriting, Advising

Credit Suisse Securities and two affiliated entities will pay more than $10 million to settle charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it allegedly provided certain prohibited services.The SEC said Wednesday that the bank acted as an underwriter and investment adviser to mutual funds after being prohibited from doing so by a New Jersey court in October 2022.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Former Warburg Pincus Executives’ New Firm Seeks $750 Million for Oil-and-Gas Bets
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Former Warburg Pincus Executives’ New Firm Seeks $750 Million for Oil-and-Gas Bets

Updated Dec. 13, 2023 2:34 pm ET|WSJ ProCovalence Investment Partners, a new firm founded by two former executives of Warburg Pincus, is seeking $750 million to invest in the oil patch, pitching its debut fund as an opportunity to buy mature fields at bargain prices.David Habachy and David Krieger, who launched Covalence early this year, both previously worked as managing directors at Warburg and led investments in oil and gas for the New York private-equity firm, according to a fund-marketing presentation viewed by WSJ Pro Private Equity. Warburg has sold several of its oil-and-gas holdings in the past year or so, as it retreats from the sector. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Citadel Is Handing Back About $7 Billion in Profits to Clients
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Citadel Is Handing Back About $7 Billion in Profits to Clients

Citadel is planning to give its investors about $7 billion in profits it earned in a year when choppy stock markets and interest rates challenged most hedge-fund managers, people familiar with the firm said.The flagship multistrategy fund at Ken Griffin’s Miami-based firm returned nearly 15% in the first 11 months of 2023, the people said. The fund, Wellington, gives investors exposure to stocks, bonds, commodities and other asset classes and returned 38% in 2022. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Legal Hurdles Stack Up for Gensler’s SEC
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Legal Hurdles Stack Up for Gensler’s SEC

Dec. 12, 2023 12:39 pm ETWASHINGTON—Gary Gensler is facing a growing number of legal challenges as the Securities and Exchange Commission chair moves forward with wide-reaching efforts to squeeze Wall Street for the benefit of investors and companies.A group of hedge funds sued the SEC on Tuesday in hopes of overturning a pair of recent rules requiring more disclosures around short selling and securities lending. The case was filed in the same conservative appeals court that looks set to kill another SEC rule aimed at getting investors more information about public companies’ share repurchases.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Extension Rounds Push Venture Capitalists to Collaborate
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Extension Rounds Push Venture Capitalists to Collaborate

Dec. 12, 2023 6:00 am ET|WSJ ProVenture capitalists are leaning on relationships with their peers to pull off extension rounds—financing that can help safeguard a startup’s valuation during down markets.These deals often happen without standard fundraising pitches, meaning venture investors need to hash out terms among themselves. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Occidental to Acquire CrownRock in $12 Billion Deal
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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Occidental to Acquire CrownRock in $12 Billion Deal

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 7:49 am ETOccidental Petroleum has signed a $12 billion cash-and-stock deal to acquire the oil and gas producer CrownRock.Houston-based Occidental said Monday that it will take on $9.1 billion in new debt and issue $1.7 billion in new shares to finance the transaction, which sees it gaining CrownRock’s 94,000 net acres in the northern part of the Midland Basin in Texas. The acreage is part of the Permian basin, the largest oil producing region in the U.S.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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A Spot Bitcoin ETF Is Easy. What Comes Next Could Get Dangerous.
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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A Spot Bitcoin ETF Is Easy. What Comes Next Could Get Dangerous.

Giving fund managers easier access to bitcoin is already a contentious topic for regulators. It is nothing next to the Pandora’s box that could be opened with its crypto peer ether.The price of bitcoin has surged roughly 14% this past month to around $42,000. Investors believe U.S. regulators will soon green light exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that hold spot bitcoins, bringing billions of dollars into the market.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Blackstone, Digital Realty Team Up to Develop $7 Billion in Data Centers
7Dec By adminNo Comments
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Blackstone, Digital Realty Team Up to Develop $7 Billion in Data Centers

Investment giant Blackstone and Digital Realty, one of the world’s largest data-center companies, are creating a new venture to develop $7 billion in data centers that will target the largest providers of online content, cloud services and artificial intelligence.The venture plans to develop 10 data centers on four campuses in Frankfurt, Paris and northern Virginia over the next five or six years, the companies said. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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