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Blue Owl Capital Provides $2.4B Financing for IREN

Blue Owl Capital (OWL) announced that funds managed by Blue Owl led a $2.4B compute equipment financing for IREN Limited (IREN). "The financing comprises a $1.2B senior secured term loan and $1.2B of senior secured notes, with proceeds to fund IREN's purchase of air-cooled NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Infrastructure including NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for IREN's Mackenzie data center campus in British Columbia, Canada. The facility is structured to fund equipment purchases in tranches over a defined draw period, allowing capital to be deployed alongside the delivery and commissioning of hardware. The transaction supports IREN's continued build-out of its AI Cloud infrastructure, which is underpinned by a more than 5GW global data center development pipeline," the company stated.

Blue Owl Capital Completes €1.6B European Net Lease Fund

Blue Owl Capital announced the final close of its inaugural European net lease fund, Blue Owl Real Estate European Net Lease Fund, with EUR 1.6B of total capital commitments. OREF Europe exceeded the original target of EUR 1.0B and its previous hard cap of EUR 1.5B, the company said.

CAIS Secures $170M in Series D Financing

CAIS announced a $170M Series D financing with lead participant Vista Equity Partners, and additional investment from AllianceBernstein (AB), funds managed by Blue Owl Capital (OWL), Carlyle (CG), Fortress Investment Group, Golub Capital, Lord Abbett, and Royal Bank of Canada (RY). The investment round values CAIS at over $2B, bringing total capital raised to nearly $600M, and coincides with a 3-year organic revenue CAGR of 37% that reflects the scale and trust CAIS has built across the independent wealth channel. David Breach, President of Vista Equity Partners, will join the CAIS Board of Directors. Representatives from Blue Owl, Lord Abbett, Fortress, and Carlyle will serve as Board observers.