{"id":109013,"date":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/lunate-earmarks-usd-1-bn-to-anchor-global-investment-platform-with-blackrock-owned-hps\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"lunate-earmarks-usd-1-bn-to-anchor-global-investment-platform-with-blackrock-owned-hps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2025\/10\/31\/lunate-earmarks-usd-1-bn-to-anchor-global-investment-platform-with-blackrock-owned-hps\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunate earmarks USD 1 bn to anchor global investment platform with Blackrock-owned HPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Abu Dhabi-based<\/strong><strong> asset manager Lunate will commit USD 1 bn to an<\/strong><strong>chor the launch of HPS Strategic Solutions Partners Platform<\/strong> with BlackRock-owned global alternative investment firm HPS Investment Partners, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lunate.com\/en\/news-insights\/announcements\/hps-lunate-strategic-solutions-platform\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. HPS, which had USD 165 bn in assets under management as of June, and Lunate, which manages USD 110 bn, are co-creating the platform, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The platform will target large-scale investments in major companies across the US and Europe<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, and provide customized financing solutions to support their strategic growth objectives. It will focus on privately negotiated preferred and common equity investments, as well as related debt instruments, in both sponsor and non-sponsor owned corporations. The companies said they will also work together to provide MENA-based investors access to the new platform, as they seek to capitalize on growing global demand for private credit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Lunate and Blackstone have other partnerships in the works:<\/strong> The asset manager formed a strategic partnership with alternative asset manager Blackstone to develop a new platform earlier this year to build <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/d3ba1ffe-698c-4900-a459-1d9a29d58f32\/lunate-%2B%253cmark%253e-blackstone%253c%2Fmark%253e-set-up-gcc-focused-usd-5-bn-logistics-platform\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">a USD 5 bn portfolio<\/a> of Grade A logistics assets across the GCC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership will target large-scale equity and debt investments across the US and Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1972],"tags":[523,1342,70,2190,341],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-109013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-equity","tag-blackrock","tag-investment","tag-lunate","tag-lunate-holding","tag-private-equity","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"3d758853-7970-4e92-9d44-507f6997033e","order":"6","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/4\/1336.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Lunate earmarks USD 1 bn to anchor global investment platform with Blackrock-owned HPS","related_issue":[109003],"teaser":"The partnership will target large-scale equity and debt investments across the US and Europe","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/10\/.8593fa0f-bb70-4159-bafb-b2ea9722e53f.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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