{"id":38650,"date":"2014-12-04T00:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T23:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/nomura-icg-k-k-announces-first-close-on-japanese-mezzanine-fund\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T00:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T23:29:47","slug":"nomura-icg-k-k-announces-first-close-on-japanese-mezzanine-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/nomura-icg-k-k-announces-first-close-on-japanese-mezzanine-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomura ICG K.K. Announces First Close on Japanese Mezzanine Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nomura ICG offers institutional investors opportunities to invest in mezzanine debt in Japan. The Fund has reached its first close in twelve months since the establishment of Nomura ICG.<\/p>\n<p><quote><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> First close on fund held at \u00a528 billion with 15 investors<\/li>\n<li> Final close will be in 2015<\/li>\n<li> Fund is committed to invest approximately \u00a510bn in two transactions<\/quote><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Fund is committed to invest approximately \u00a510 billion in two transactions.<br \/>\nTomohiro Kikuta, Representing Director, Nomura ICG, commented: <em>\u201cThe successful first<br \/>\nclose of Nomura ICG\u2019s Japan mezzanine fund shows that there is real appetite from<br \/>\ninstitutional investors for this type of portfolio diversification, and exposure to this level of<br \/>\ncredit investing. The Fund is currently deploying capital on target and Nomura ICG continues<br \/>\nto offer mezzanine investment opportunities to investors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kentaro Okuda, Global Head of Investment Banking at Nomura commented: <em>\u201cWe are pleased<br \/>\nthat Nomura ICG\u2019s fund has successfully completed its first close with the commitment of<br \/>\nmany institutional investors. This highlights the ongoing expansion and increased demand for<br \/>\nJapanese mezzanine investing. Nomura and ICG will meet the demand of investors for<br \/>\nmiddle risk, middle return credit investment and the financing requirements of sponsors and<br \/>\ncompanies through Nomura ICG. Nomura is committed to continue supporting Nomura ICG<br \/>\nto develop the mezzanine market in Japan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Christophe Evain, CEO, ICG commented: <em>\u201cThe first close of the Nomura ICG Japanese<br \/>\nmezzanine fund is evidence of the demand from Japanese investors for the returns which can<br \/>\nbe produced from investing in the mezzanine asset class in Japan. We believe that Japan<br \/>\ncontinues to offer investors a wealth of opportunities, and ICG is committed to support<br \/>\nNomura ICG in developing the mezzanine market in Japan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomura ICG K.K. (\u201cNomura ICG\u201d), the 50:50<br \/>\npartnership between Nomura Holdings, Inc. (\u201cNomura\u201d) and Intermediate Capital Group plc.<br \/>\n(\u201cICG\u201d) announces the first close on their Japan mezzanine fund, NICG Investment Business<br \/>\nLimited Partnership A (the \u201cFund\u201d) at \u00a528 billion from 15 investors. The Fund intends to hold<br \/>\nits final close in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":38648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1856,1859,1968,1711,1437,1691,1952,1787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}