Bain Capital has Secured $9B for Global Special Situations Fund II

Bain Capital announced it completed fundraising for its latest Global Special Situations Fund, bringing the total amount raised for its second vintage of funds to $9 billion. 

This capital base includes Global Special Situations Fund II, which received $5.7 billion in total commitments, inclusive of co-investments and separately managed accounts, and $3.3 billion from the firm’s previously closed Special Situations Asia and Europe regional funds. The successful fundraise positions Bain Capital as one of the largest special situations investors in the world.

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Bain Capital’s Special Situations strategy

Bain Capital’s Special Situations strategy combines bespoke capital solutions with strategic partnership to meet the diverse needs of companies, entrepreneurs, and asset owners across all market cycles. 

The team brings together credit and equity expertise, as well as corporate and real asset capabilities, to provide solutions that cannot be met by traditional providers. With more than $20 billion total assets under management, the strategy brings a differentiated ability to provide both capital as well as operating value-add.

On a global scale, Special Situations pursues both structural and cyclical opportunities across three primary investment strategies:

Capital Solutions: Investing and partnering with companies around the world to fund growth and M&A, provide liquidity, or optimize a company’s capital structure.
Hard Assets: Supporting asset owners and operators across the capital stack to structure tailored investments and build platforms that address market inefficiencies.
Opportunistic Distressed: Investing in complex and often misunderstood assets in dislocated market environments.

Barnaby Lyons, Partner and Global Head of Special Situations said, “Structural shifts are creating significant opportunities for creative capital providers who can fill the gaps between traditional strategies and provide enhanced value for companies, entrepreneurs, and asset owners, These catalysts demand innovative and adaptable investment solutions, backed by a global team with deep industry insights and robust strategic support. We’ve built one of the largest and most global special situations teams with over 140 investment professionals across four continents, and we see a substantial opportunity to further expand our global strategy and capabilities.”

While leveraging Bain Capital’s 40-year legacy of differentiated value creation, the Special Situations team brings significant operational capabilities to each transaction. Its portfolio group of more than 40 professionals offer dedicated operating and functional expertise from their experience in corporate leadership roles.

About Recent Investment

Recent investments from the firm’s Special Situations strategy include AQ Compute, a European provider of green, flexible, and modular data center and colocation services powered by renewable energy.Tyger Capital, a lender seeking to empower entrepreneurs, borrowers, and homeowners in India; MRO Holdings Inc., a leading provider of aircraft maintenance solutions for the global commercial airline industry; and Sikich, a leading professional services firm specializing in accounting, tax, and IT services in North America.

About Bain Capital

Bain Capital, LP is one of the world’s leading private investment firms that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Since our founding in 1984, we’ve applied our insight and experience to organically expand into numerous asset classes including private equity, credit, public equity, venture capital, real estate, life sciences, insurance, and other strategic areas of focus.

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