Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

The sector is now facing much higher debt financing costs, a deteriorating global economic outlook and concerns about the potential for “stale” valuations lagging those of public markets. Despite the challenges buyouts firms are facing, some investors are increasing their bets on the asset class in a bid to profit from cheaper valuations.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As I stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our deal flow, which in terms of square footage is 40% greater when compared to the same period last year. I guess the first question, Scott, maybe just going back to the Pacific JV buyout. Regarding holiday.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

00:45:53 [Speaker Changed] So where does your deal flow come from? What advice would you give a recent college grad interested in a career in either finance, mutual funds, private placements, late stage venture? It sounds like very competitive space. And so that’s what, that’s what I’m reading right now.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. And so late 90s, that’s the emergence of the high yield market in Europe, you would print deals like never before. And there was no hint at the time that I would be heading into finance. I think it was a great training.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And it’s a, a reasonable way to do financing depending on what risk level the, the bar the lender wants to assume. The banks were the, the alternative financing tool for private equity sponsors wanting to do an L B O. So C L O formation was at an all time high in 2021 after the CVID 19 pandemic actually had already occurred.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

KENCEL: Well, the deal everybody thinks about in that era, and kind of the defining deal was RJR. KENCEL: “Barbarians at the Gate” and the financing. We’re going to look at a buyout and look at the pricing, look at the structure. So, you know, it got to the point where, it was exciting at first, as a deal.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

UK sponsor-backed financing activity experienced a modest slowdown in Q3 2024, as ongoing M&A sluggishness and seasonal dynamics impacted deal flow, according to the latest data from global investment bank, Houlihan Lokey.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As I've stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our deal flow, both in terms of number of deals and square footage when compared to the same period last year, and I'll get into this more in a moment. The equity, the financings, and some of the sales.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

There is also now only one global credit group which manages any style of credit including investment grade, leveraged finance, high yield, private credit, external private credit and structured credit. Private equity is the final piece of the puzzle with investments dominated by the buyout program.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

We put these structures in place to fix our financing costs ahead of the rise in interest rates, and they have generated significant value. BXPE will leverage the firm's full breadth of investment capabilities in private equity, including buyout, secondaries, tactical opportunities, life sciences growth, and other opportunistic strategies.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? And I imagine the same is true vice versa, when a US company goes to the uk, at least outside of finance, finance seems to have found, found a foothold in Europe from the us. But also it helped private equity do deals, right?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Forbes, Midas list five times top 100 venture capitalists according to CBE Insights, top VCs on the New York Times list, top 20 private equity power players, FinTech Finance 40. How does this affect the deal flow you see in the companies you look at, do you have your own space and and that’s what you drill into?

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