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The Carlyle Group s lending division has been a major focus of the firm s CEO, Kewsong Lee.
The credit team has nearly doubled its assets under management over the past four years.
These are 14 people leading Carlyle s $53 billion lending division.
One of Kewsong Lee s biggest priorities as CEO of The Carlyle Group has been to build out a lending division that offers new financial products for investors and serves as a true equal to its long-standing private-equity team, which has bought thousands of companies over its 34 years of existence, from the luxury fashion brand Golden Goose to the digital-content company Getty Images.
Unusual Fundraising Behind Dominion Ownership
Dominion Voting Systems is under scrutiny for its ownership structure. Its parent company raised funds with the help of a Swiss bank before the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The transaction is odd in several ways. Some speculate a Chinese entity could be an indirect investor in the company.
The unusual transaction led some to speculate a Chinese entity could be the indirect investor of Dominion.
The voting machine maker was acquired by New York-based private equity firm Staple Street Capital in 2018.
This October, Staple Street raised $400 million dollars with the help of UBS Securities LLC. It’s a subsidiary of Swiss bank UBS based in New York.