• Ardian formed a strategic partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. to launch a Direct MidCap NAV Financing platform.
• Platform targets mid-market buyout, infrastructure funds with fund-level financing to support capital deployment, portfolio growth, value creation.
• SMBC contributes large-cap NAV financing structuring expertise, global banking reach; Ardian adds mid-cap data, secondaries and primaries capabilities.
• Ardian cited a proprietary dataset spanning 1,700 funds, 700+ GPs, 12,000 companies, 4.5 million real-time datapoints.
• Firms are already jointly evaluating opportunities; Ardian referenced its $30 billion secondaries platform, ASF IX, announced January 2025.

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