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. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And I had no work experience in anything.

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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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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. Gone are the days of an auction with 45 bids, two pre-empts and—I’d say—some aggressive dealmaking,” Ranjan said in a Bloomberg Television interview Wednesday.

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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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