BlackRock is buying credit investment manager HPS Investment Partners in a stock deal valued at about $12 billion, giving it more ways to service its insurance clients. BlackRock said Tuesday that the transaction includes equity issued by a subsidiary,

BlackRock Inc. agreed to buy HPS Investment Partners in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $12 billion, a purchase that will propel the world’s largest asset manager into the highest ranks of private credit.

In a $12 billion all-equity deal, BlackRock (BLK, Financials) is going to buy HPS Investment Partners, a worldwide credit investment manager. BlackRock's purchase seeks to enhance its private credit products and link them with its $3 trillion public fixed-income platform,