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Athyrium doubles down

Why Athyrium thinks its $1.2B fund is in the structured finance sweet spot

July 27, 2015 7:00 AM UTC

Athyrium Capital Management expects its newly closed $1.2 billion fund has found the sweet spot for infusing structured capital into commercial-stage healthcare companies.

Athyrium and partner Neuberger Berman closed their first fund, Athyrium Opportunities Fund L.P., at $507 million in 2013. Although the oversubscribed new fund is more than twice as large, Athyrium's Jeffrey Ferrell said it will make a similar number of investments. ...