The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Horizon Technology Finance: Dividend yield 11.4% In the world of technology-focused BDCs, Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ: HRZN) is one of the closest peers to Hercules. By contrast, Ares has the ability to complete much more sophisticated deals, including leveraged buyouts. dividend yield.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Warburg Pincus, a leading private equity firm managing approximately $86bn in assets, has no immediate plans to pursue an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report by Reuters quoting CEO Jeffrey Perlman at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York on Tuesday. It was a tough vintage, Perlman said.

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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

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 Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Global private investments firm Apollo Global Management has set its sights on doubling its assets under management to $1.5tn by 2029, positioning itself as a major player in global debt underwriting, according to a report by the Financial Times. In every market, banks are being asked to do less, and investors are being asked to do more.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 29, 2024

Hayfin manages over €30bn in assets. The buyout attracted interest from the likes of MetLife and Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries. Hayfin’s management had previously considered selling the entire business but ultimately decided to explore a self-funded buyout as BCI sought to exit.

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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. billion last year.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The highly anticipated €16bn ($17.36bn) acquisition of Sanofi’s consumer health unit by buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) could signal a surge in large private equity deals across Europe, according to a report by Bloomberg citing comments from investors and analysts.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Ehsani originally focused on purchasing life insurance policies, but is now playing a pivotal role in Apollo’s push to fund major multinational corporations as the firm’s Global Head of Principal Structured Finance.

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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. Like this article?

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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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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. markets.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns.

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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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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

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 transaction is subject to regulatory and other consents and is expected to close in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024.

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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 transaction is subject to regulatory and other consents and is expected to close in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Types of Alternative Investments Alternative investments are non-traditional investment options that offer diversification, unique opportunities and potential higher returns beyond conventional asset classes like stocks and bonds. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Types of Alternative Investments Alternative investments are non-traditional investment options that offer diversification, unique opportunities and potential higher returns beyond conventional asset classes like stocks and bonds. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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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

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. All rights reserved.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They run over $27 billion in, in assets. Were you always thinking about going into finance? What, what was it that made you say, Hey, this finance thing looks like it’s fun and interesting? But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

They do everything from hard assets like real estate, infrastructure, aircraft, power plants, to private debt, event driven opportunities. So, is it, is it safe to say finance was always in the career plans? 00:02:24 [Speaker Changed] Finance and business was always in the career plans. Oh, 00:02:22 [Speaker Changed] Gosh, yes.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

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. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout.

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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 had mismatched assets. It’s not an asset that other creditors can go after.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

KKR, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), and Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner are working to secure approximately €4bn ($4.2bn) in debt to finance a strategic separation of the German media giant’s classified ads businesses from its news operations, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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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

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.

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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. He also explains how Forstmann Little was the white shoe alternative to the firms doing junk bond financing. Klinsky is also the founder of Modern States.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

We’re seeing a slow-grinding implosion of this titanic asset bubble that started in 2012,” says Dan Zwirn, CEO at Arena Investors. estimates private-market assets were $13.1 Apex Group, a provider of services to asset managers, has just refinanced a slug of debt with a $1.1 McKinsey and Co. trillion at the end of June 2023.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

.” Industries : Healthcare, Technology, Distribution, Financial Services, Industrials Visit Fulcrum’s Profile “Gen Cap America (GCA) is a private equity firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee that specializes in leveraged buyouts of privately held lower-middle market businesses.

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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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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

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: Well, I sort of worked my way up, if you can call it that, to writing their personal finance column, which nobody read, by the way. RITHOLTZ: Now that we have gender parity in finance, thank you. Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? RITHOLTZ: They’re financers, I’m sorry.

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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.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts. If you didn’t understand how the semiconductor worked, if you didn’t understand how the software was built. Optical, this telecom that.

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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. When you were there, was it a financial engineering firm, or was it a more traditional credit finance firm? But I think — RITHOLTZ: You were a kid banker and a finance banker. Did he chat?

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