Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

CVC, which has 25 offices around the world, was valued at about €15bn when it agreed to sell a minority stake to Blue Owl’s Dyal Capital unit in 2021. The firm has ambitions to expand beyond it traditional leveraged buyout background and has already made moves into private credit, and the secondaries market. Like this article?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

A darling of the stock market during coronavirus lockdowns, leading digital-signature and contract-management player DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) has seen its shares drop by nearly 80% from their all-time high of $310 in September 2021. The company has an impressive balance sheet with nearly $1.6 billion in cash and only $835 million in debt.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Between 2020 and 2021, the industry experienced a period of unprecedented growth, only to see a regression in 2022 due to delayed economic reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic – the global buyout value dropped nearly 35%. Global private equity transaction volume ended 2021 at approximately $1.2

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

At Investor Day in 2021, the firm set a target of a half-trillion dollars in assets under management by the end of 2025. Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Udu

MAY 24, 2023

trillion in 2021 – a 14% increase from the prior year. Leveraged Buyout (LBO) An LBO transaction is an acquisition funded using a significant amount of debt where assets from both parties are used as collateral. In fact, private equity fundraising has seen a substantial rise.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Credit crusaders fill the wall street void Submitted 27/06/2023 - 1:54pm This article first appeared in the March 2023 T ech Buyouts Insights Report Private credit funds could become a more permanent fixture in tech’s leveraged buyout market thanks to their speed of execution and reliability, especially in challenging macroeconomic conditions.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. Private credit provided 65% of loans for the leveraged buyout (LBO) market in 2021 and 86% for the market as of year to date 2023. First, a low fund leverage profile increases fund liquidity and/or capital available for investment.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

I recently discussed all this when I went over why CPP Investments plans to double its credit holdings over the next five years : Now we read that CPP Investments is going to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A potential settlement with KKR, which pioneered the leveraged buyout model in the 1980s, could establish a new precedent for how the DOJ handles future cases involving private equity firms accused of not adhering to the disclosure requirements outlined in the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

“It gets back to the ability to grow the operating performance of the companies and making sure that returns” come from that rather than from “financial leverage,” he tells Bloomberg. Many were acquired at the buyout boom’s zenith in 2021 and 2022, and often paid for by piling them up with floating-rate debt.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. So C L O formation was at an all time high in 2021 after the CVID 19 pandemic actually had already occurred.

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Private Equity Professional

JUNE 27, 2024

” Centerbridge invests from $50 million to $300 million in US-based leveraged buyouts and distressed securities. Canaccord Genuity acquired Sawaya Partners, a New York City-headquartered consumer-focused M&A advisory firm, in December 2021.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the most recent triennial review published in December 2022, the Chief Actuary reaffirmed that, as at December 31, 2021, both the base and additional CPP continue to be sustainable over the long term at the legislated contribution rates. Mr. Connor has served on the Board since August 2021.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: And by 2021, they were extracting 70 billion in dividend recapitalizations. And it really became very evident in a 2021 study by academics, I think University of Chicago, UPenn, NYU, that studied long-term mortality at nursing homes that were owned by private equity and compared that with nursing homes. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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