What's New In Investments, Funds? – HarbourView, KKR

Editorial Staff

11 June 2025

US-headquartered HarbourView Equity Partners, with about $2.67 billion in AuM, has wrapped up an additional $500 million in debt financing.

KKR, aka Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, managed insurance vehicles that took part in the financing, KKR said in a statement yesterday. This latest financing expands on the nearly $500 million of such funding that HarbourView secured in 2024 from KKR-managed insurance vehicles and accounts, and other investors.

HarbourView, established in 2021, focuses on opportunities in the entertainment, media, and sports space. HarbourView has acquired more than 70 music catalogs encompassing over 35,000 songs across both master recordings and publishing income streams. The company most recently made a deal to finance a slate of Hip Hop biopics in partnership with Will Smith's Westbrook Studios, Flavor Unit and Jesse Collins Entertainment, starting with a Queen Latifah biopic. This followed an investment in Usher's 2024 concert film "Rendezvous in Paris."

Intellectual property is an important risk diversifier, KKR said.

"This additional capital from KKR will help us accelerate our strategy to align with where the media, sports and entertainment markets are headed,” HarbourView founder and CEO Sherrese Clarke, said. “We see a tremendous opportunity to continue investing in evergreen intellectual property, which we believe is historically uncorrelated to broader market volatility and forms a powerful diversification tool."

Avi Korn and Chris Mellia, global co-heads of asset-based finance at KKR, said: “Music IP is one of many areas of opportunity that we see for this strategy and an example of its breadth."

KKR's asset-based finance strategy focuses on privately originated and negotiated credit investments that are backed by large and diversified pools of financial and hard assets. This platform began investing in 2016 and now has about $74 billion in ABF assets under management globally across its High-Grade ABF and Opportunistic ABF strategies.

The financing was entirely structured by UK-headquartered Barclays. Barclays and KKR Capital Markets acted as placement agents, and Fifth Third Bank, National Association as passive placement agent.