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Goldman seeking backers for new global fund

By Anousha Sakoui

Published: March 18 2009 01:01 | Last updated: March 18 2009 01:01

Goldman Sachs is looking to raise potentially several billion dollars from external investors for a new global fund that will invest in the debt of troubled companies.

The fund, which will invest in stressed and distressed debt, will be headed by Richard Friedman, Goldman’s head of merchant banking and run under the PIA group, the bank’s private equity arm, according to people familiar with the situation.

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