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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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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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We would revisit [the idea of going public] if we felt we were at a competitive disadvantage, but I think the opposite is true right now, Perlman said, highlighting the advantages of staying private compared to peers like TPG and CVC Capital Partners, which have gone public in recent years. It was a tough vintage, Perlman said.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Hercules Capital: 9.5% dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) specializes in high-yield loans to start-ups that have raised funding from venture capitalists in the technology, healthcare, and energy sectors. Ares Capital: 9.3% Data source: Ares Capital. Should you invest $1,000 in Hercules Capital right now?

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pennsylvania-based private equity firm Taurus Private Markets has held the final close of Taurus Private Markets Fund II, which initially targeted $150m, with over $211m in capital commitments. The firm also invests with blue chip venture capital partnerships with target fund sizes less than $750m.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They point to several factors driving this trend, including record levels of uninvested capital, more affordable financing due to falling interest rates, and pressure from investors seeking returns through asset sales. Private equity is scaling up, with bigger pools of capital ready for major transactions.”

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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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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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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Fewer Large Leveraged Buyouts Tighter monetary policy and a more uncertain macroeconomic outlook make large lenders more hesitant to finance large leveraged buyouts. 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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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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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

BCI regularly sells its interest in funds in secondaries markets, which allows the $233-billion pension fund manager to rebalance the size of its private equity portfolio relative to the rest of its assets, and to redeploy capital to new investments. Aren't leveraged buyouts in the doldrums? Is this possible?

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

As the markets and the capital pools have gotten so much bigger. If you’re committing capital to private equity, you don’t care when they do the purchase. How on earth is there still a carried interest tax loophole for private equity, hedge funds, and venture capital? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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