The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Generally speaking, during the early days of a start-up , founders will raise money from venture capital or private equity firms in exchange for equity. The company specializes in an instrument called venture debt -- or loans made at high interest rates.

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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. Lending limits have also increased.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A roughly $5 billion debt deal for the buyout of health-care tech company Cotiviti Inc. was poised to become the largest such financing ever provided by private credit firms when first contemplated last year. The about-turn in the closely watched financing is the result of a tie-up between private equity firms KKR & Co.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 15, 2024

Nordic Capital is weighing a sale of German regulatory software firm Regnology, in a deal which could value the business at up to 3 billion euros ($3.27 billion pounds, while Blackstone acquired UK-based software firm Civica for $2.5 billion.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bain has been interviewing investment banks to hire financial advisers that will help the private equity firm come up with a plan to cash out on its majority stake in Varsity Brands, the sources said. Buyout firms have been actively seeking exits from apparel businesses this year.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

trillion private credit market, which has burgeoned into a competitive funding tool for private equity firms, are coming thick and fast. This week alone, Bloomberg News reported on direct-lending firms working on plans for potential multi-billion dollar buyouts of Adevinta, Kereis and Iris Software.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 10, 2023

The private equity owner of Intermedia Cloud Communications is exploring options including a sale that could value the communications services provider at more than $1bn, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Buyout firm Madison Dearborn Partners is working with investment bank Evercore (EVR.N)

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Carlyle, a private-equity firm, has been interviewing investment banks to hire a financial advisor that will run a sale process for Every Man Jack, the sources said, cautioning that no deal is certain. Carlyle told its staff last month it would not make new investments in U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Private equity firm Advent International is exploring a sale of CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. , Investment bank Morgan Stanley is advising CCC on its talks with potential acquirers, which include other buyout firms, the sources said, adding that no deal is certain.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Shares of Macy's (NYSE: M) were surging today after the department-store chain received a buyout offer from two private equity firms. Macy's gets a sweet offer The buyout offer from real estate investor Arkhouse Management and asset manager Brigade Capital Management values the company at $21 a share, or $5.8

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 12, 2023

Nasdaq is acquiring financial risk software company Adenza for $10.5bn in its largest-ever such deal, from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Adenza, which is owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, is expected to generate $590mn in revenue and $300mn in cash flow this year, Nasdaq said.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Epiris, a British-based buyout firm and Newlat, an Italian food manufacturer are vying for control of Princes Foods, one of Britain’s biggest tinned produce brands. The auction is being run by Houlihan Lokey, the investment bank. Epiris declined to comment, while Newlat could not be reached for comment.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

NEW YORK, Aug 31 (Reuters) – The private equity owners of Procare Solutions are exploring a sale that could value the child-care management software provider at nearly $2 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. The auction is expected to attract interest from private equity firms, the sources said.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The private equity owner of Tropical Smoothie Cafe is preparing to put the U.S. Buyout firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has hired investment bank Robert W. Reuters reported last week that the investment firms that own Chuck E. Source: USNews Can’t stop reading? amid interest.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that the private equity firms have started consulting with investment banks in preparation for a potential sale process, expected to begin in early 2025.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 24, 2023

According to the report from Reuters, SentinelOne has hired an investment bank, but it's also possible the talks will end without a sale. A better possibility, if SentinelOne is acquired, is a buyout by a private equity firm. At the time of writing, SentinelOne trades at a P/S ratio of 9.6 compared to 14.1

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2023

According to Reuters, SentinelOne's management has already hired an investment bank to advise it through the process. And it sounds like it's already spoken to some private equity firms. Therefore, it's possible that a buyout wouldn't come at an overly attractive price for current shareholders.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Glovier also served as Managing Partner at Opus Equity Partners, a lower middle-market private investment fund and a portfolio investment led by Glovier while at Fortress. Glovier also worked at Perseus, a Washington, DC-based lower middle-market private equity firm, where he co-led buyouts from its New York office.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a BDC that invests in technology, life sciences, and sustainable energy businesses. The company typically supports start-ups that have raised funding from venture capital or private equity firms and are looking to augment the balance sheet with some debt.

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Henry has extensive experience designing, implementing, and executing strategic fundraising and investor relations programs for private equity firms. Henry began her career at Merrill Lynch in its investment banking and private equity group. © 2024 Private Equity Professional | September 20, 2024

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

SentinelOne hasn't said anything about selling itself, and the recent rumors merely suggest it's brought in the investment bank Qatalyst Partners to explore a potential deal. There's no news about an actual valuation or any potential suitors -- so investors shouldn't buy SentinelOne in hopes of a quick buyout.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. The Ares portfolio is diversified across 466 borrowers backed by 222 private equity sponsors that invest in those borrowers’ equity.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It specializes in an investment vehicle called venture debt. Typically, a start-up will raise funds during its early days from venture capitalists (VC) or private-equity firms. In exchange for capital, founders will give up equity in their company. Hercules Capital: 10.3%

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

THL mulls $1.5bn sale of healthtech Nextech Submitted 29/06/2023 - 10:25am Private equity firm THL Partners is working with investment bank William Blair over a potential sale of healthcare software provider Nextech Systems that could value the company at around $1.5 billion, according to a report by Reuters.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 2, 2024

UK-based lower mid-market private equity firm Westbridge has promoted Rebecca Sinclair, who joined the firm in 2019, to investment director, and Luke Gilbert, who joined in 2023, to investment manager. Gilbert supports the investment team with deal origination, deal execution and portfolio management.

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American Investment Council

OCTOBER 15, 2024

.” With the added capital, Rite Way expanded services, added more trucks, hired more workers, and invested in apprenticeship and training programs for technicians. Workers benefit financially, too, says Graham Weaver, founder of private-equity firm Alpine Investors, based in San Francisco.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. How did those experiences lead to a career in private equity?

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

About Oak Hill Capital Oak Hill is a longstanding private equity firm focused on the North America middle-market. Oak Hill is a specialist, theme-based investor dedicated to investing in the following industry sectors: Media & Communications, Industrials, Services, and Consumer. Stephens Inc.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Apollo is one of a number investors, both wealthy individuals and professional money managers, that have reached out in recent weeks to BDT & MSD Partners, the investment bank advising the Redstones, according to people familiar with the discussions. Private equity firms RedBird Capital Partners and KKR & Co.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You would have the investment bank and the founders and a whole bunch of folks do these giant road shows and they would go from New York to Boston, they’d go out to San Francisco, they would go all around the country showing off the company before the big wedding. They, they manage them, not what you guys do.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I mean, if you’re buying debt in, in, you name it company at 20 cents to 60 cents, and they’re owned by, you know, marquee private equity firms, what’s gonna happen with that? And we, we feel that a lot of phone calls, I think the most nervous we became was when the banks started failing.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

She will focus on diligence for co-investment, fund and secondary opportunities predominantly in the middle and lower middle-market buyout and growth equity space. She began her career in investment banking at the Royal Bank of Canada in London. from law firm Macfarlanes, where he served as Analyst.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Two, three years at a private equity firm.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Kat Hidalgo, Allison McNeely, Neil Callanan and Eyk Henning of Bloomberg report that private equity's creative wizardry is obscuring danger signs: As Pete Stavros addressed the private equity industry’s yearly shindig in Berlin last month, the KKR & Co. But they were just as troubling.

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