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- ICG plc stands as a global alternative asset manager, providing adaptable capital solutions to foster enterprise expansion across both private and public markets. The firm engages in a diverse array of direct investment and fund management strategies. Within its direct investment approach, ICG specializes in structured capital, private debt, and various equity investments. These encompass private debt provisions, credit solutions, and equity participations, including financing for management buyouts and buy-ins, growth capital initiatives, and public-to-private transactions. The group actively invests in middle-market companies across numerous sectors, demonstrating a particular focus on areas such as technology, healthcare, education, consumer goods and services, business services, and infrastructure services. Geographically, its investment efforts span the European Union, including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Nordic regions, alongside a significant presence in North America and select markets within Asia Pacific. ICG also operates dedicated strategies in private equity secondaries, specifically focusing on GP-led secondary transactions, including single-asset continuation vehicles, and LP-led secondary transactions. Its credit segment covers investments in primary and secondary public credit markets, offering solutions like leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, and structured credit products such as Collateralized Loan Obligations. Real assets, encompassing real estate and infrastructure, form another key area, where the firm provides both debt and equity financing. Real estate debt offerings include whole loans, mezzanine financing, preferred equity, and senior debt, often secured against commercial properties across Europe, with a current strategic emphasis on Europe and the US, and a recent scaling down of its Asia real estate activities. These real estate investments often involve a focus on sustainable assets and green loans. As of September 2025, ICG's total assets under management reached approximately $124 billion. The firm primarily generates revenue through management fees, performance fees, and other income derived from its comprehensive investment management services. Its clientele is diverse, comprising institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds, as well as family offices and a growing private wealth investor base. In recent developments, ICG plc, which officially changed its name from Intermediate Capital Group plc in July 2025, entered a long-term strategic partnership with Amundi in November 2025. This collaboration aims to accelerate the development and distribution of private markets products for wealth investors, with Amundi acquiring a 9.9% economic stake in ICG and becoming an exclusive global distributor for certain ICG products in the wealth channel. This partnership will initially see the launch of new European evergreen funds focused on private debt and LP secondaries. Furthermore, ICG closed its second European Infrastructure fund at €3.15 billion in September 2025. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in London, England, ICG operates from over 20 locations globally, serving its diverse client base with a flexible mandate to optimize risk-adjusted returns across market cycles. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.