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 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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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

JLL Partners is dedicated to partnering with companies that it can fundamentally help build into market leaders through a combination of strategic mergers and acquisitions, market repositioning, and product and service line expansion. We know how to operate in situations that are not “packaged” for sale.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They run over $27 billion in, in assets. And the entire merger department of Goldman Sachs in 1983 was 32 people. Michael Fisch : 00:05:39 [Speaker Changed] Well, in the time that I was working at Goldman Sachs in mergers, there were a bunch of big public companies who were on, we were on m and a retainer, they call it.

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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. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 5, 2025

The acquisition, which could be announced as soon as this week, would take the struggling pharmacy giant private. Stefano Pessina, Walgreens chairman and a key architect of its 2014 merger with Alliance Boots, is expected to roll over his stake as part of the deal. and $11.40 per share in cash. In 2019, KKR & Co.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And for middle and upper middle market investors, target companies typically have long grown past the $50m asset level that is necessary to implement a Section 1202 strategy. There will always be complexities and trade-offs to be taken into account in the planning stages of any investment or acquisition.

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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. So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. Tell us about the merger in the early days that gave us General Electric, and who ran that company.

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