Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Private investment giant Blackstone expects a more favourable environment for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and a rebound in initial public offerings (IPOs) to drive more than double the number of private equity exits in 2025, according to a report by Reuters. The cost of capital has come down.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Rose specialises in mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, private equity and general corporate matters, according to a press statement.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Dee Kuchukulla (New York) guides leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on an array of complex transactions, from leveraged buyouts and sales to carve-outs, cross-border deals, joint ventures, and take-privates across industries.

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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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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

Leveraged buyout volumes remained down from historical highs in Q2 2024, as did EBITDA purchase price multiples, which decreased from 11.5x of amendments observed (regardless of company size) contained sponsor capital injections to address liquidity shortfalls compared to 43.3% in the second half of 2023 to 11.1x in Q1 2024.

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JMI Equity

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Earlier, Suken worked as an investment banker in the financial sponsors group at Morgan Stanley, where he advised software, information technology and other companies on leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings including the sale of DoubleClick to Google.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We invest a minimum of 50% equity into the capital structure of each portfolio company, providing the flexibility to create value through operational improvements, professional management practices, global capabilities and profitable business growth, versus financial engineering. billion of committed capital across four funds.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And the entire merger department of Goldman Sachs in 1983 was 32 people. Michael Fisch : 00:05:39 [Speaker Changed] Well, in the time that I was working at Goldman Sachs in mergers, there were a bunch of big public companies who were on, we were on m and a retainer, they call it. The large, that’s nothing.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steven Klinsky, New Mountain Capital , is below. Eventually, Steve takes his experience and knowledge and stands up his own firm, New Mountain Capital, which is one of the largest private equity shops in the world. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 5, 2025

The acquisition, which could be announced as soon as this week, would take the struggling pharmacy giant private. Stefano Pessina, Walgreens chairman and a key architect of its 2014 merger with Alliance Boots, is expected to roll over his stake as part of the deal. and $11.40 per share in cash. In 2019, KKR & Co.

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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. And I also spent a year there, working for the chief credit officer at GE Capital, learning all the different business lines at GE Capital. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from GE Capital to Lazard next.

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