Hamilton Lane Incorporated - HLNE STOCK NEWS

Hamilton Lane's Global Private Assets Fund (GPA) has won first place for three-year returns among private equity offerings at the 2024 Canadian Hedge Fund Awards, achieving a 14.33% annualized three-year return. The firm manages approximately $1.65 billion CAD for Canadian investors through evergreen products.

GPA, launched in 2019, has reached $6.7B CAD in global assets under management, including $1.3B in the Canadian feeder. The Fund provides diversification through direct equity, secondaries, and direct credit investments. Hamilton Lane's Canada Evergreen Platform also includes the Senior Credit Opportunities Fund and Global Private Infrastructure Fund.

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has closed a $575 million multi-asset continuation fund transaction. The fund, LLCP LMM Acquisition Fund, L.P., will acquire interests in three portfolio companies: Blue Ridge Associates, Milton Industries, and Resolution Economics from LLCP Lower Middle Market Fund. Hamilton Lane (HLNE) acted as lead investor in the transaction, which aims to provide additional growth capital and time for the portfolio companies while offering liquidity options to LMM II partners.

Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) announced the expansion of its Direct Equity Investment Team with five new senior appointments across North America and Europe. The team added Nelda Chang, Kyle McGinnis, and Jenny Zhang at its Conshohocken headquarters, Aljoscha Dudek in London, and Benjamin Kalter to its Impact Investment Team. The expansion supports the firm's direct equity platform, which currently manages $15.3 billion in AUM. The Direct Equity Investment team has grown nearly 40% over the past year to 45 individuals globally, reflecting the firm's strategic focus on co-investment opportunities, particularly in the middle market.

Hamilton Lane reported strong Q2 fiscal 2025 results, with total assets under management reaching $131.4 billion, up 10% year-over-year. Management and advisory fees grew 10% to $119.8 million. The company's unrealized carried interest balance increased 9% to $1.3 billion. GAAP EPS was $1.37 on $55.0 million of GAAP net income. The firm declared a quarterly dividend of $0.49 per share, with a target full-year dividend of $1.96, representing a 10% increase from the prior fiscal year.

Securitize has launched Securitize Fund Services and surpassed $1 billion in tokenized real-world assets on-chain. The new offering provides a unified platform combining tokenization services, primary marketplace, secondary trading via regulated ATS, transfer agent solutions, and fund administration. The platform addresses traditional fund administration inefficiencies through digitized investor onboarding, automated smart contract workflows, and on-demand issuance of tokenized securities. Securitize partners with major asset managers including BlackRock, Hamilton Lane, and KKR, offering end-to-end solutions for both traditional finance firms and web3-native institutions.

Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) has announced a strategic agreement with Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) to provide Hamilton Lane's proprietary software Cobalt LP® and integrated services to Northern Trust Asset Servicing clients. This collaboration aims to offer advanced private market analytics and decision support to Northern Trust clients.

The agreement includes access to Hamilton Lane's private market data, analytics, and tools through Northern Trust's Total Portfolio Analytics solutions. Clients will benefit from Cobalt LP®'s advanced analytics and pre-commitment research capabilities, as well as Hamilton Lane's portfolio company data service for tracking core metrics across private markets portfolios.

This partnership addresses the increasing need for sophisticated analytics as global clients maintain significant exposure to private markets. It combines Hamilton Lane's front office analytics with Northern Trust's core Front Office Solutions investment book of record (IBOR) support, offering a comprehensive front-to-back office decision-making solution.

Hamilton Lane Incorporated (Nasdaq: HLNE) will release its second quarter fiscal 2025 financial results on November 6, 2024, before the market opens. The company will host a conference call via webcast at 11:00 a.m. ET on the same day to discuss the results. Investors can access the live webcast and earnings release on Hamilton Lane's Shareholders website.

Hamilton Lane is a leading private markets investment firm with a global presence. As of June 30, 2024, the company manages $940 billion in assets, including $130 billion in discretionary assets and $810 billion in non-discretionary assets. With approximately 700 professionals worldwide, Hamilton Lane specializes in creating flexible investment programs across various private markets strategies, sectors, and geographies.

Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) has launched two new evergreen funds, expanding access to private market infrastructure investments for accredited investors globally. The Hamilton Lane Global Private Infrastructure Fund (HLGPI) is available to qualified investors in EMEA, Australia, Canada, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, while the Hamilton Lane Private Infrastructure Fund (HLPIF) is available to U.S. clients.

These funds aim to provide exposure to an institutional-quality, global portfolio of infrastructure assets through a single investment, focusing on core plus and value add assets. They target both capital appreciation and income, offering monthly or quarterly redemptions. The funds seek to capitalize on opportunities across power, transportation, data and telecommunications, environmental, and energy sectors.

This launch builds on Hamilton Lane's existing $8.1 billion Evergreen Platform and nearly $72 billion infrastructure platform. The firm has been designing infrastructure-focused separate account mandates for over 24 years, aiming to deliver attractive performance relative to benchmarks.

VFN Holdings, Inc (Vero Networks) has secured $80 million in preferred equity financing to accelerate fiber construction growth. The investment, led by Delta-v Capital and funds managed by Hamilton Lane, will enable Vero to:

• Build fiber to the home in underserved communities
• Finance accretive business acquisitions
• Facilitate wholesale and large enterprise opportunities

Vero, founded in 2017 by digital infrastructure industry veterans, has expanded to 237 markets in 20 states, serving over 21,000 customers. The funding will support Vero's mission to enable digital communications and connectivity solutions in under-connected areas across the United States.