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How to Ensure Accurate Private Equity Valuations

Udu

Leveraged Buyout (LBO) An LBO transaction is an acquisition funded using a significant amount of debt where assets from both parties are used as collateral. Precedent Transactions Precedent transactions analysis compares an acquisition opportunity to other companies that have recently been sold or acquired in the same industry.

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Private Credit, Meet “Higher for Longer”

Blackstone

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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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

Pension Pulse

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's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

NAV lenders sometimes charge interest in the mid to high teens, and some borrowers have used holiday homes, art and cars as collateral. CVC Capital Partners came up with a novel use of extra leverage during its March IPO of Douglas AG. 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

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. That’s an example. That’s an interest rate sensitive asset class.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

MORGENSON: It can be collateralized loan obligations, now it’s big private debt. Aren’t the big firms and the LBOs, the leveraged buyouts, very different than the middle market, smaller private equity firms that provide capital and equity to small companies. But so you had these dividend recaps.