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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

PE has acquired companies in the past three to four years at very high enterprise values, and it’s a question of if this is sustainable on exit now given market conditions,” says Tara Moore, head of European originations at Golub Capital, a US private credit firm. Some investors don’t want firms using such tools to flatter returns.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

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. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Transcript: Armen Panossian

The Big Picture

And the equity checks being written by these private equity firms are larger than they’ve ever been as well, greater than 50% usually of the enterprise value of the transaction that they’re, they’re taking on that, [ Ritholtz 00:14:56 That, that’s big. And they’re being bought out by private equity firms.