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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

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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How a Weekend Steel Deal Could Fuel a 2024 Bull Market

The Motley Fool

Steel (NYSE: X) are seeing Monday morning, and the move could signal a wave of merger and acquisition activity across the industrial and materials sectors that could produce the next leg higher for the bull market. Image source: Getty Images. A trans-Pacific steel giant Shares of U.S.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

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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