This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Pontillo, whose practice focuses on leveraged buyouts and growth capital and venture capital transactions, joined Kramer Levin in 2021. Pontillo shares the role with Dana M Anagnostou, who has been elected to a third term in the joint-role.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Taurus Private Markets invests in value-oriented, lower middle market leveraged buyout and private credit partnerships with target fund sizes less than $1.25bn. The firm also invests with blue chip venture capital partnerships with target fund sizes less than $750m.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

He has previously represented private equity funds, independent sponsors, public and private companies, search funds, family offices, founders and entrepreneurs in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations, debt and equity financings, venture capital transactions and joint ventures.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5% 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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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Ares Capital: 9.3% dividend yield The last BDC on my list, Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , is quite different from Hercules and Horizon. The company does not generally work with technology start-ups or businesses backed by venture capital. Data source: Ares Capital. This is where Ares comes into the equation.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Between 2020 and 2021, the industry experienced a period of unprecedented growth, only to see a regression in 2022 due to delayed economic reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic – the global buyout value dropped nearly 35%. This could lead to a decrease in this type of buyout, as buyers may not be able to finance their acquisitions with debt.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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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

MARCH 7, 2025

Growth equity (66%), venture capital (53%), and real estate (51%) were also highlighted as attractive asset classes, reinforcing an ongoing diversification trend in private markets. The study found that 57% of GPs view private debt as a top investment focus, with 81% expecting investor demand to rise over the next two years.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Private equity is the final piece of the puzzle with investments dominated by the buyout program. In September last year, after analysing performance and deal flow, Berg decided to switch to fund investing in Asia and Europe and to focus on buyouts in North America. We decided to focus on our buyout efforts in North America.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

How on earth is there still a carried interest tax loophole for private equity, hedge funds, and venture capital? MORGENSON: It started out, I think, as a special treatment for real estate, and it sort of morphed into this bigger thing as the private equity venture world expanded. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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