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Apollo and ICG expand into South Korea as private equity gains momentum

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Lower interest rates are expected to further fuel leveraged buyouts, setting the stage for an active 2025, Deloitte reported. Restructuring will be a key driver of South Koreas M&A landscape as companies divest non-core assets and cash-generating units to strengthen financial stability. increase from the previous year.

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Banks ramp up leveraged buyouts as interest rates fall

Private Equity Wire

Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg. Lending limits have also increased.

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Akin adds Partner to PE transactions practice

Private Equity Wire

Alperovich has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority and growth investments, joint ventures, carve-outs and divestitures, restructurings, SPACs and de-SPACs, and investments in general partners.

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Energy Capital Partners nears $30bn sale of Calpine to Constellation

Private Equity Wire

These assets, valued increasingly highly amid surging US power demand, align with Constellations strategic objective to diversify its predominantly nuclear generation base. If finalised, this acquisition will rank among the largest in the US power industry since TXU Corps $45bn leveraged buyout in 2007.

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Warburg Pincus has no plans for IPO as firm looks to PE growth

Private Equity Wire

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. The industry bought a lot in 2021. It was a tough vintage, Perlman said.

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Linden Closes $400 Million Structured Capital Fund

Private Equity Professional

Limited partners in SCF II include both new and returning SCF I investors such as pension plans, insurance companies, family offices, and asset managers from the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Lindens earlier structured capital fund closed in July 2011 with $355 million of capital commitments.

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Leverage levels in private credit to increase, says Moody’s

Private Equity Wire

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.