This week Partners Group is showcasing, among various open positions on its website, a vacancy for an investment manager of its private equity secondaries business. The position is based in New York.

Partners Group AG plans to use its new €375 million ($483.7 million) credit vehicle to fill a gap in leveraged lending, and in its investors’ portfolios. But it doesn’t plan to take advantage of financial distress in European markets.

Euro-denominated buyout funds, which play a prominent role in CPP Investment Board’s portfolio, have provided some solid returns over the years. But there is one player that shines above the rest, according to the Buyouts performance database.

Partners Group has raised €375 million (US$480 million) for a senior loan-focused private market credit strategies fund. The pool will focus on providing senior debt financing to midmarket companies. Zug, Switzerland-based Partners Group is a private markets investment manager.

Global private markets investment manager Partners Group has raised 375 million euros ($483.7 million) for the private debt market. The fund will focus on senior loan-focused private market credit strategies and private debt mandates. PRESS RELEASE Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, has seen heightened demand from clients seeking to access the private [...]

Partners Group and Avista Capital Partners have backed the management buyout of Strategic Partners, a US-based manufacturer of medical uniforms, medical footwear and school uniforms. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PRESS RELEASE Strategic Partners’ management team, Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, and Avista Capital Partners, a leading private equity [...]

Partners Group and Capvis are to sell Bartec to Charterhouse Group. German-based Bartec is a global provider of industrial safety technology for applications in explosion-hazardous areas with production sites in Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia and China. PRESS RELEASE Partners Group and Capvis concluded an agreement to sell Bartec to Charterhouse Group. Bartec, which has been founded [...]

Global fund manager Partners Group has closed its global real estate 2011 program at over $800 million. Partners Group is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and has offices in San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, London, Guernsey, Paris, Luxembourg, Munich, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney. PRESS RELEASE Partners Group, the global private markets investment [...]

This week’s job posting is for a position on the private real estate asset management team of a well respected international fund-of-funds.

As you’re heading to the beach this weekend, here’s a slideshow of the week’s top 5 private equity-backed M&A deals.