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Banks ramp up leveraged buyouts as interest rates fall

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

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.

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

Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

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. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.,

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

Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

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. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.,

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

Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? In 2022, Ares’ direct lending tied to such buyouts totaled $26.4 Whenever he approaches a U.S.

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Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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. You guys just get rid of this. And still growing.

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OTPP and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners Acquire Compass Datacenters

Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

We are a fully funded defined benefit pension plan and have earned an annual total-fund net return of 9.5% billion-plus bidding war for Compass Datacenters: Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (BIP.N) billion-plus bidding war for Compass Datacenters: Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (BIP.N)

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.

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Transcript: Armen Panossian

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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Advent seeks $300m LBO loan for Ginko China acquisition amid Asia’s buyout boom

Private Equity Insights

MARCH 7, 2025

Other significant transactions include HongShan Capital Groups bid for a $400m loan to acquire Swedens Marshall Group AB and Bain Capitals efforts to raise a $341m facility to purchase Blackstones Singapore-based worker dormitory company, Avery Lodge. Can`t stop reading?

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Carlyle eyes up to $5bn in exits as IPO market gains momentum

Private Equity Insights

MARCH 4, 2025

While fee income from private equity is expected to decline modestly in 2025, Carlyles latest US buyout funds posted strong returns of 15% and 21% respectively. High interest rates have tempered large leveraged buyouts, but Wise emphasized Carlyle’s willingness to execute major deals in the current environment.

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Brookfield Trumps Buyout Titans With $50bn Deal Spree

Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

That’s roughly triple the deal tallies of buyout firms like Apollo Global Management Inc., has unveiled just one major public-company takeover bid this year. Its energy transition fund was behind a $12 billion March deal for Australian utility Origin Energy Ltd. “A EQT AB and Silver Lake Management. KKR & Co.

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How OMERS CIO Ralph Berg Refocused The Investment Programs

Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss. billion) funds approach to investing. The fund has been invested in infrastructure for 18 years.

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Transcript: Sunaina Sinha, Global Head of Private Capital with Raymond James

The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

Made the decision to leave just to try something new at that point, went to Harvard for my MBA and then had made the ch his choice at that point to switch out of biotech and interviewed with a whole bunch of of firms and ended up getting into the hedge fund world, doing capital raising for two large hedge funds. I use that day to day.

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Transcript: William Cohan

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. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. And you know, you guys make your bids.

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Banks ramp up leveraged buyouts as interest rates fall

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

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

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

Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

OTPP and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners Acquire Compass Datacenters

Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Transcript: Armen Panossian

Advent seeks $300m LBO loan for Ginko China acquisition amid Asia’s buyout boom

Carlyle eyes up to $5bn in exits as IPO market gains momentum

Brookfield Trumps Buyout Titans With $50bn Deal Spree

How OMERS CIO Ralph Berg Refocused The Investment Programs

Transcript: Sunaina Sinha, Global Head of Private Capital with Raymond James

Transcript: William Cohan

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