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. There’s leverage. And still growing.

Debt 59

Debt Leveraging Banks Leveraged Buyouts 59

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.

Leveraged Buyouts 105

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Had a group based in Los Angeles that had a long and, and, and experienced team that was investing in distressed debt and really kept separate and apart from what the rest of the hedge fund at PWA was doing. Panossian ] 00:08:19 The liabilities, obviously the hedge funds had redemptions. There would’ve been no bid.

Private Equity Firms 52

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt Banks 52

Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

We are starting to see green shoots in the M&A market, investor interest in auctions, and bids at fuller multiples, he says. We are starting to see LBO [leveraged buyout] activity pick up again. OMERS, like many, has taken a hit with the repricing of assets but Berg believes the lions share of the adjustment has taken place.

Buyout 52

Buyout Pension Funds Investing Assets 52

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.

Capital 52

Capital Hedge Funds Buyout Funds 52

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.

Banks 103

Banks Mergers and Acquisitions Capital Companies 103