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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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Private Equity Buys Almost $15bn In Renewable Energy Big Time

Private Equity Insights

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement. Key investors such as KKR & Co. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.,

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Private Equity Buys Almost $15bn In Renewable Energy Big Time

Private Equity Insights

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement. Key investors such as KKR & Co. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.,

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Bain and Hellman & Friedman battling to acquire DocuSign

Private Equity Wire

Private equity firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are in competition over a deal to acquire DocuSign, a provider of online signature services valued at around $12.5 Another buyout firm, Blackstone, also held talks about acquiring DocuSign, but has now reportedly dropped out of the running.

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Ares Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet: Stick With Private Credit or Become an Alts Supermarket

Private Equity Insights

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. They tend to be owned by private equity firms with stronger capitalizations. In 2022, Ares’ direct lending tied to such buyouts totaled $26.4

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PE firm Roark closing in on $9.6bn Subway deal

Private Equity Wire

A previous report by Reuters earlier this month revealed that private equity firms TDR Capital and Sycamore Partners were in talks over a joint bid to acquire Subway, after the family-owned firm said in February it was exploring a possible sale of the business. Like this article?

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Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

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He also spent time at Sebus and More Capital before launching his own firm in 2001. And proprietary trading is using the firm capital to kind of buy it and also to distribute it, to syndicated it more broadly at the same time. Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. But at 15, 20 cents, there’s some upside.

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