Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 9, 2022

Plus, UK law firms try to make it in the US and capital markets lawyers break loose from their golden handcuffs

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Scrivani was most recently a partner at international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Scrivani advises private equity firms and public and private clients on leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions, public company acquisitions, sales and divestitures and mergers of equals.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Global law firm White & Case is expanding its global debt finance practice and has appointed Lauren Winter, who has joined from Shearman & Sterling where she was Counsel, as a Partner in London. White & Case has dedicated bank lending, private credit & direct lending and borrower finance teams.

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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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JMI Equity

JULY 23, 2024

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

We’re going to look at a buyout and look at the pricing, look at the structure. You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. But, you know, these large firms were spinning off smaller private equity firms. KENCEL: So, now, leverage is lower.

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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. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

International law firm Milbank has continued the expansion of its private equity capabilities with the appointment of Evan Roberts as a Partner in the firm’s Global Corporate/M&A Group based in its Los Angeles office.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts. Silver Lake was one of the first buyout shops built around making technology investments or investments in technology companies.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 24, 2024

And beyond that, you know, my book gets into how they have this pattern of lying, cheating, copying their way to the top and using their leverage in all these different industries to crush competition. And Amazon eventually makes a buyout offer to this firm, but they don’t wanna do it because they’re doing so well.

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