Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. Private credit provided 65% of loans for the leveraged buyout (LBO) market in 2021 and 86% for the market as of year to date 2023. But because there will be winners and losers, skilled managers have an opportunity to stand out.

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Leveraging Banks Debt Leveraged Buyouts 52

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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Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Pension Funds Mergers and Acquisitions 59

Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

NAV lenders sometimes charge interest in the mid to high teens, and some borrowers have used holiday homes, art and cars as collateral. Other unconventional financing is raising eyebrows, too, such as continuation vehicles — a controversial practice of firms selling sometimes troubled assets to a new fund that they also manage.

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Buyout Debt Leveraging Pension Funds 59

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.

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Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

00:19:57 [Speaker Changed] So collateralized loan obligation means that there’s some underlying asset which is used as your collateral, you then break that up into different securities and different tranches and out it goes. The banks were the, the alternative financing tool for private equity sponsors wanting to do an L B O.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt Banks 52

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: Well, I sort of worked my way up, if you can call it that, to writing their personal finance column, which nobody read, by the way. RITHOLTZ: Now that we have gender parity in finance, thank you. MORGENSON: It can be collateralized loan obligations, now it’s big private debt. He was a corporate finance person.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financing Finance 59

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this role, Mr. Jhooty is responsible for the Total Fund Management department where he leads the balancing and financing portfolio, which is invested in global public securities, as well as balance sheet management, tactical positioning, trading and portfolio design. through an equity financing round and a secondary transaction.

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