Private Equity Insights

MARCH 29, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up SRS, which is owned by private-equity firms, is “an industry leader with a proven track record of profitable growth,” Home Depot CEO Ted Decker said in a statement.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

News reports circulated with further details on a potential buyout of the company by private equity firm Sycamore Partners, which has been in talks to buy the troubled pharmacy since late 2024. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $45,570 !* Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Bank of England (BoE) is intensifying its efforts to closely monitor risks in the non-bank financial sector, which includes private equity firms, hedge funds, and asset managers, according to a report by Institutional Investor. Results from this stress-testing exercise are expected by year-end.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Clifton honed his technology dealmaking chops at Carlyle, where he worked for nine years until 2020 as part of that firm’s flagship buyout team. The new fund also attracted several new LPs, too. “We

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Private equity firm CVC is restructuring its US operations and is actively seeking to acquire a private credit firm, as it looks to strengthen its position in the American market following a series of underperforming investments, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. And Ares’ greatest growth spurts have come during tough times like the 2008 financial crisis and the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Ares portfolio is diversified across 466 borrowers backed by 222 private equity sponsors that invest in those borrowers’ equity.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A debate in the UK’s House of Lords saw peers raise concerns over private equity ‘profiteering’, following a report by the Observer last December revealing that investments by private equity firms in children’s care homes in England have doubled since 2018.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Invest in Europe 's “ Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity 2022 ” research has shown that 801 European private equity, venture capital, and growth funds raised 30% more in 2022 compared to 2021 (€170 billion in 2022 compared to €131 billion achieved in 2021).

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The recent SPAC boom saw many of these deals making headlines but PIPEs have been a mainstay in private equity for years. Private equity firms use this method opportunistically to invest in public companies, typically taking non-controlling stakes. But that’s a story for another time.

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American Investment Council

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Alpine Investors, a private equity firm focused on home services, reports a 20% average pay increase for technicians in their first year after acquisition, due to higher wages, bonuses, and commissions. Workers benefit financially, too, says Graham Weaver, founder of private-equity firm Alpine Investors, based in San Francisco.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And now we call it the private equity industry.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

00:36:05 [Speaker Changed] So private equity firms tend to come in and take over running these companies. And it’s something I’m actually very proud of because this was probably back in 2007 and 2008 and I believe that was our first internal business network. They, they manage them, not what you guys do.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

We’re going to look at a buyout and look at the pricing, look at the structure. And we brought them a plan that, you know, I think, was very similar to what the banks were doing at the time, which was providing financing to private equity-owned companies, huge area of growth in the economy. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. By the time 2008 came around, we had about $5 billion. Investing in secondary debt took off in 2008.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Not, not terribly busy in 2007 to be honest, but in 2008, 2009, 10, it was by far the busiest time in my career in investing. I mean, if you’re buying debt in, in, you name it company at 20 cents to 60 cents, and they’re owned by, you know, marquee private equity firms, what’s gonna happen with that?

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Private Equity Invested US$206 million to acquire positions in two fund-of-fund vehicles that are invested in buyout, growth buyout and venture funds across a wide range of industries, primarily in the U.S. company developing a closed-loop supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, through an equity funding round.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

If they could, oil would not have reached $147 in 2008—a level is has never subsequently reached and the examples I referred to earlier—involving the Nikkei and Nasdaq—wouldn’t have occurred. Still, Kleinman sees a bright decade ahead for new buyouts, particularly in the US, where he still sees “a lot of value.”

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Carlyle Group is aiming to accelerate the pace of initial public offerings (IPOs) and asset sales in 2025, targeting $4bn to $5bn in exits from its private equity portfolio, in line with last years divestments, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2025

No investor likes it when a potential buyout deal for one of their holdings hits a serious roadblock. CNBC's David Faber reported live and on-air that unnamed sources told him that a looming arrangement between Walgreens and private equity firm Sycamore Partners for the latter to buy the former is "mostly dead."

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. When we spoke, the focus and conversation really emphasizes the largest of the large private equity firms. And that’s why we’re focusing on them.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in December, several media outlets reported that private equity firm Sycamore was interested in making a play for Walgreens, though it's unclear if a deal would go through. It's unclear what Sycamore's buyout price would be, but expect Walgreens stock to keep moving on the buyout rumors.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. I know Jeff, privately, was quite miffed at Jack.

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