Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 Ares Management Corp. has raised A$2.6 billion ($1.7

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Global law firm White & Case is expanding its global debt finance practice and has appointed Lauren Winter, who has joined from Shearman & Sterling where she was Counsel, as a Partner in London. White & Case has dedicated bank lending, private credit & direct lending and borrower finance teams.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 23, 2024

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that the new fund will provide senior secured loans to finance European leveraged buyouts. Based in London, AlbaCore manages approximately $9.4bn in assets and has traditionally focused on higher-yielding debt, including capital solutions and opportunistic credit.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Ian Keefe and George Weavil as Partners within the firm’s private equity practice in its London office, which covers M&A, private investment funds and debt finance.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up TPG, formerly Texas Pacific Group, is co-headquartered in Fort Worth and San Francisco and specializes in leveraged buyouts and growth capital. The firm was founded in 1992 and manages assets and investments totaling $139bn.

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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. Horizon Technology: 11.1%

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

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. Ares Management Corp. Yet even there, private credit plays an outsize role.

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Centerbridge invests between $50 million and $300 million in US-based leveraged buyouts and distressed securities. Bain Capital Credit has $41 billion in assets under management and invests in leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, private lending, structured products, non-performing loans, and equities.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

The company typically supports start-ups that have raised funding from venture capital or private equity firms and are looking to augment the balance sheet with some debt. What can make debt an optimal solution in fundraising is that, unlike equity, it doesn't dilute existing shareholders. Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5%

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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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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

His practice focuses on advising private equity firms and other financial institutions on transactions including leveraged buyouts, venture and growth capital investments, joint-ventures and co-investments, opportunistic and distressed acquisitions, take-privates and carve-outs, across the investment lifespan through to exit.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Our cross-asset approach, bolstered by our extensive experience in credit and equity derivatives, is a unique aspect of our offering. A: Drakai Capital is among a very select group of firms with a pure-play, market-neutral, and cross-asset quantitative credit strategy.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2023

 This week, we speak with Steven Klinsky, founder and CEO of New Mountain Capital , which runs over $37 billion in assets under management. Klinsky also served as one of the first five general partners at Forstmann Little, helping to oversee seven private equity and debt partnerships totaling over $10 billion in capital.

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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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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Bain Capital Credit’s Private Credit Group invested in 30 businesses across 15 industries in H1 2023, supporting the refinancing, leveraged buyout, and add-on acquisition activity of both new and existing portfolio companies.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale. 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.

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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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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Victor has had a fascinating career, stood up the distressed debt department at Citibank before doing the same thing at Merrill Lynch a few years later. They do everything from hard assets like real estate, infrastructure, aircraft, power plants, to private debt, event driven opportunities. I know I did. I, I keep track.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

4 To discuss the opportunities in this rising asset class and how to navigate the benefits and challenges of higher-for-longer rates, I welcome, as indicated below, the perspectives of Jonathan Bock, Co-CEO of Blackstone’s Business Development Companies (BDCs) and Global Head of Market Research for Blackstone Credit.

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Udu

MAY 24, 2023

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.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

.” Industries: Manufacturing, Industrials, Business Services, Distribution, Healthcare, Materials Visit Shoreview’s Profile “Source Capital, LLC is a private equity firm founded in 2002 which makes both control equity investments and mezzanine debt investments in mature, lower middle-market U.S.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They run over $27 billion in, in assets. 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, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage. Michael Fish is co-founder and CEO of American Securities.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They grew a business where they issued junk debt. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. KKR was the biggest with $400 million of assets and eight people.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I wanna say it’s about $179 billion in client assets. You’ve probably heard some aspects of this from the various interviews I’ve done with Howard Marks talking about the distressed asset fund they set up in 2007. That’s very much a top down view from what Howard Marks was setting up.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

also served as debt financing advisor. About Brookfield Infrastructure Brookfield Infrastructure is a leading global infrastructure company that owns and operates high-quality, long-life assets in the utilities, transport, midstream and data sectors across North and South America, Asia Pacific and Europe. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

dollar-denominated assets, which benefited from a strengthening U.S. Performance of the Base and Additional CPP Accounts The base CPP account ended its second quarter of fiscal 2024 on September 30, 2023, with net assets of $546 billion, compared to $547 billion at the end of the previous quarter. Based in the U.S.,

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 5, 2025

Sycamore, known for executing complex investments in struggling retailers, may explore debt refinancing strategies to restructure Walgreens financial obligations. 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.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Turn/River Capital agreed to acquire IT management software provider SolarWinds in a $4.4bn transaction, marking a significant move amid improving conditions for debt-funded acquisitions. 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 Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

The private markets fundraising environment is set for a strong rebound in 2025, with private debt and growth equity emerging as key investment areas, according to a new study by CSC, a provider of global business administration and compliance solutions.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

There were loosely defined mandates and guidelines for risk and asset classes which caused duplications and triplications, Berg says of the investment operating model in an interview with Top1000funds.com. This would deliver a very high-quality asset with low risk and volatility, and this became the early model of Borealis, Berg says.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

That was sort of unfathomable at the time, that someone could buy a giant, publicly traded company strictly with low-cost debt. Well, first of all, the big fee that really ends up, and this is not a fee to the private equity firm, but the big problem with many of these deals is the debt interest costs, okay? MORGENSON: Absolutely.

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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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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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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

trillion in total assets and advises on a whole lot more. 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. Is there any other kind?

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