Private Equity Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

Keefe focuses on pan-European and international PE and M&A transactions for corporates, institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders and portfolio companies.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

The company specializes in more complex transactions such as leveraged buyouts , for example. New England Asset Management (NEAM) is a subsidiary of Berkshire, and one of its positions is none other than Ares. One thing that makes Ares especially unique is its position as a Warren Buffett holding.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Ares Management Corp. It has vaulted to the top rungs of the alternative-asset management world by focusing on what it does best: private credit. Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. Apollo Global Management, and KKR.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Leverage levels in private credit will increase as alternative asset managers’ rapid capital deployment in turn increases their share of the private credit market, according to a private credit research report by Moody’s Investor Services.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Apollo funnels these loans through its annuities affiliate, Athene, as well as to third-party insurers and asset managers, generating fees along the way. Apollo’s chief executive, Marc Rowan, has emphasised that the firm’s biggest opportunity in private credit is not in the competitive market for funding leveraged buyouts.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

By contrast, Ares has the ability to complete much more sophisticated deals, including leveraged buyouts. He owns a position in Ares in his secret portfolio -- through New England Asset Management. One other unique feature of Ares is that it has attracted the attention of Warren Buffett.

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

Conversely, while far smaller in number, weak performers cannot access the positive market trends prevalent in the first half of 2024 as demand for heightened risk and underperforming assets was absent. Leveraged buyout volumes remained down from historical highs in Q2 2024, as did EBITDA purchase price multiples, which decreased from 11.5x

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Historically, the focus was on leveraged buyouts and cost-cutting to boost profitability, but this approach is no longer sufficient. With over 15 years of experience in investment banking, asset management, and private equity, Lou helps align Zanders’ value proposition with investor value creation strategies.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

PE firms adding hedge funds to approved lender lists Submitted 16/08/2023 - 11:22am Private equity firms, including buyout major KKR & Co, are beginning to add hedge funds to their 'white lists' of approved lenders used to arrange funding for leveraged buyout deals, according to a report by Bloomberg. billion ($1.6

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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The decision to acquire DIF, which was founded in 2005, and manages €16bn in assets, comes as the CVC's traditional buyout rivals, including Blackstone and Apollo, have established themselves as diversified asset managers. The Dutch works council of DIF has been informed and positively advised on the transaction.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The decision to acquire DIF, which was founded in 2005, and manages €16bn in assets, comes as the CVC's traditional buyout rivals, including Blackstone and Apollo, have established themselves as diversified asset managers. The Dutch works council of DIF has been informed and positively advised on the transaction.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

executive’s words were slightly less headline grabbing than those of Apollo Global Management’s co-president Scott Kleinman. Whereas Kleinman went in hard with his warning that “everything is not going to be okay” for buyout firms, Stavros joined in with the concession that his industry may have gotten “too creative” lately.

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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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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

Brookfield Infrastructure is the flagship listed infrastructure company of Brookfield Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager with over $825 billion of assets under management. About Ontario Teachers’ Ontario Teachers’ is a global investor with net assets of C$247.2

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 5, 2025

explored a leveraged buyout of the company, but the deal ultimately collapsed. One possible approach could involve linking debt to specific business units rather than the entire company. This isnt the first time Walgreens has considered going private. In 2019, KKR & Co. Can`t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The buyout has already secured approval from SolarWinds’ largest shareholders, Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake, which collectively hold around 65% of the companys voting securities. The acquisition reflects a growing trend of private equity firms re-entering the leveraged buyout market as borrowing costs stabilize.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Private credit lenders are in discussions to provide $4.5bn in debt financing for Sycamore Partners potential buyout of Walgreens Boots Alliance, as part of a plan to break up the pharmacy chain into separate business units, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

Canadian asset management giant Brookfield has emerged as the world’s most acquisitive investment firm this year, as the titans of private equity increasingly stay on the sidelines. That’s roughly triple the deal tallies of buyout firms like Apollo Global Management Inc., EQT AB and Silver Lake Management.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Private equity is the final piece of the puzzle with investments dominated by the buyout program. In September last year, after analysing performance and deal flow, Berg decided to switch to fund investing in Asia and Europe and to focus on buyouts in North America. We decided to focus on our buyout efforts in North America.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

I was working directly with the CEO and president of both companies, but I realized that the biotech vertical was not my playing field for the long term, hence the NBA at Harvard to find another career path and, and that led me into asset management. When it comes to any asset management business, Barry, two things important.

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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. And I actually started out of business school.

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