The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Let’s just start with your educational background. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

billion-plus bidding war for Compass Datacenters: Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (BIP.N) Brookfield and DigitalBridge are leading opposing bidding consortia in the auction for privately held Compass, the sources said, adding an outcome is expected by next month. Clearly Brookfield won that bidding war paying more than $5.5

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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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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There would’ve been no bid. 00:34:48 [Speaker Changed] And, and you mentioned, you know, at times you’re unpopular, but like we talked about earlier in oh 8, 0 9, 0 7, if you are the only bid, I would think people would be grateful that hey, at least somebody’s on the other side of the trade. That’s an example.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : We always pay attention to regions where there is a pool of capital, a world class educational institution and a, a private sector that can combine all three. The interlinkages between women, our education policy, labor force, productivity, and again, ultimately the growth of the economy. Fascinating.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

COHAN: I was doing something I probably should never have been allowed to do, which was write about public education in Wake County, which was fine. And no one had ever done that, I had to get special permission from the Board of Education in Brooklyn back when they still do that. And you know, you guys make your bids.

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