Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

The two private equity firms are among the final bidders in the auction for DocuSign, which is set to be one of the biggest leveraged buyouts of 2024, the sources said. A spike in financing costs in the last two years made financing leveraged buyouts more expensive and big deals hard to clinch.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The fund received commitments from a diverse investor base which includes public pension plans, Taft Hartley plans, insurance companies, and family offices. Taurus Private Markets invests in value-oriented, lower middle market leveraged buyout and private credit partnerships with target fund sizes less than $1.25bn.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 Ares Management Corp. has raised A$2.6

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The company is headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut, and is led by CEO Alec Searle. IGP’s track record of building and scaling A&D-focused, specialty metal forming companies made them a perfect partner for AMG,” said Mr. Searle. TPG Twin Brook was the administrative agent on the debt financing to support IGP’s buy of AMG.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC) that specializes in providing capital to venture-backed start-ups. Hercules is different from a typical bank as it tends to offer more flexible financing options. Hercules Capital: 10.6% ARCC Total Return Level data by YCharts 3. Enbridge: 7.8%

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Private equity firms including Advent International and Blackstone are approaching both banks and private lenders over debt packages of around €7.5bn ($8.16bn) to help finance a potential acquisition of Sanofi’s consumer health division, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Ian Keefe and George Weavil as Partners within the firm’s private equity practice in its London office, which covers M&A, private investment funds and debt finance.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

But with so many opportunities out there, it's challenging to identify companies that both pay dividends and consistently perform at a high level. One good place to source ideas is to look at business development companies (BDCs). Horizon Technology Finance: Dividend yield 11.4% Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5%

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Ehsani originally focused on purchasing life insurance policies, but is now playing a pivotal role in Apollo’s push to fund major multinational corporations as the firm’s Global Head of Principal Structured Finance. These deals convert future cash flows into investment-grade debt, benefiting both Apollo and its counterparties.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

The report, titled ‘Escalating private credit competition will increase risk and scrutiny’, predicts that leverage “will increase in a number of ways that may not be immediately visible or obvious, be-cause many of these instruments are already commonly used for a range of financing needs”.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2024

” Private equity firms are preparing for a recovery in leveraged buyout volumes in 2025, supported by falling interest rates, a backlog of capital to deploy, and opportunities linked to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI). Earlier in 2023, it agreed to acquire Australian data centre operator AirTrunk for $16bn.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Business development companies (BDC) can be particularly good sources of dividend income, paying above market returns. This lets Hercules benefit from some of the upside of a liquidity event for one of its portfolio companies, such as an initial public offering or a sale. HTGC price-to book-value; data by YCharts. Ares Capital: 9.3%

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Rose specialises in mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, private equity and general corporate matters, according to a press statement. He has previously worked at Wick Phillips, Kane Russell Coleman Logan, Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz and XTO Energy Inc, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, according to his LinkedIn profile.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The report cites CEO Marc Rowan as unveiling the ambitious growth plan during the firm’s investor day presentation, signalling a strategic shift as companies increasingly turn to private capital for financing, rather than traditional bank loans. We are just at the beginning of this trend.”

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For some, investing in companies taking advantage of emerging trends, such as artificial intelligence (AI), can be lucrative. However, this approach requires investors to speculate about which companies are best positioned to win long term. In exchange for capital, founders will give up equity in their company.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2023

However, it's evident that companies are starting to realize that the stocks that have gotten left out of the rally so far have intrinsic value of their own. The Pittsburgh-based iconic steel company received a buyout bid from a Japanese counterpart that could reshape the entire steelmaking industry. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company has also made significant advances in robotics, both in its factories and with its Optimus humanoid robot. Even after selling a big chunk of shares to finance his leveraged buyout of Twitter in 2022, Musk owns roughly 13% of Tesla. So why does he want more control of the company?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm, has turned to direct lenders to help finance its $2.3bn acquisition of Rover Group, the world’s largest online marketplace for pet care, with the firm seeking about $250m of private debt, according to a report by Bloomberg. Some lenders have pushed for a higher price, however.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns. Treasury 4.x,

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Bain Capital Credit’s Private Credit Group invested in 30 businesses across 15 industries in H1 2023, supporting the refinancing, leveraged buyout, and add-on acquisition activity of both new and existing portfolio companies. Like this article?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Speaking in the sidelines of this week’s IPEM conference in Cannes, the report quotes Hirschmann as telling Bloomberg TV that as large businesses “tend to be safer credits…there’s certainly a reason to be lending to those big companies and still generate 9-10% gross yield”.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. In the last two quarters of 2022, the non-accrual rate — the percentage of companies that missed payments — in Ares Cap’s portfolio was 1.7

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Janet Coscino (Chicago) leads complex transactions for private equity firms, as well as public and private companies, across a variety of industries. Jamie Darch (Chicago) is a health care lawyer who guides life sciences and health care companies and investors on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 18, 2023

Troutman Pepper adds to PE group Submitted 18/08/2023 - 11:49am Private equity debt financing partners Jonathan Homer and Bruce Stainers have joined Troutman Pepper's Corporate Practice Group in New York and San Francisco, respectively. He works with PE sponsors, debt investment funds, publicly traded companies, and privately held ventures.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a responsible company, Drakai Capital plants a tree for every trade and every investor subscription. A: Drakai Capital believes that every single step matters in the fight against climate change. We aim to balance our carbon footprint through various climate action projects. markets.

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Lincoln Private Market Index (LPMI), which tracks changes in the enterprise value of privately held companies in the United States, increased by 1.9% Leveraged buyout volumes remained down from historical highs in Q2 2024, as did EBITDA purchase price multiples, which decreased from 11.5x in the second half of 2023 to 11.1x

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 25, 2023

Private credit firms discussing $3.4bn Hyland loan package Submitted 25/08/2023 - 11:11am A group of private-credit lenders led by Golub Capital, Ares Management Corp, Blue Owl Capital, and Oak Hill Advisors, are in talks to extend a $3.25bn loan to Hyland Software Inc, so the company can refinance existing debt, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

2020: Black Swan Moment Coronavirus, the black swan of 2020, had a significant impact on the private equity industry, causing uncertainty and volatility in financial markets, disrupting deal-making, and affecting portfolio companies across various sectors. AI , in particular, is helping to drive this trend.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Credit crusaders fill the wall street void Submitted 27/06/2023 - 1:54pm This article first appeared in the March 2023 T ech Buyouts Insights Report Private credit funds could become a more permanent fixture in tech’s leveraged buyout market thanks to their speed of execution and reliability, especially in challenging macroeconomic conditions.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

4 To discuss the opportunities in this rising asset class and how to navigate the benefits and challenges of higher-for-longer rates, I welcome, as indicated below, the perspectives of Jonathan Bock, Co-CEO of Blackstone’s Business Development Companies (BDCs) and Global Head of Market Research for Blackstone Credit.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

There aren’t a lot of companies, and there aren’t a lot of people that have the historical perspective on the rise of private equity like Michael Fish does. Were you always thinking about going into finance? What, what was it that made you say, Hey, this finance thing looks like it’s fun and interesting?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I found this conversation to be absolutely fascinating if you’re at all interested in things like hard debt and what distressed asset buying is like, and what it’s like to take over a company, not through its equity, but through its defaulted debt. So, is it, is it safe to say finance was always in the career plans?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 20, 2023

Tampa Bay Times ) • Is Michael Platt the Highest Earner in Finance? Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets ( New Yorker ) • FTX Founder Gamed Markets, Crypto Rivals Say : Sam Bankman-Fried found ways to control the prices of digital coins to benefit his companies, FTX and Alameda, according to cryptocurrency investors. (

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

KKR, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), and Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner are working to secure approximately €4bn ($4.2bn) in debt to finance a strategic separation of the German media giant’s classified ads businesses from its news operations, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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