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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. Employ advanced technology Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can enhance the private equity valuation process.

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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. First, a low fund leverage profile increases fund liquidity and/or capital available for investment.

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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

“It gets back to the ability to grow the operating performance of the companies and making sure that returns” come from that rather than from “financial leverage,” he tells Bloomberg. And the use of PIK and other forms of so-called “back leverage” makes it even more difficult to get a clear picture on the state of privately owned companies.

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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 I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And, and as a result, there is a, a condition where there’s risks and opportunities in the current market.

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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.