Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Taurus Private Markets, a Pennsylvania based private equity firm, today announced the final close of Taurus Private Markets Fund II, LP. The fund received commitments from a diverse investor base which includes public pension plans, Taft Hartley plans, insurance companies, and family offices. Source: Yahoo!

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 19, 2022

US private equity firm consortium makes leveraged buyout offer for Ramsay Health Care

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Surprisingly, private equity firms are at the forefront of this trend, investing heavily in solar, wind, biomass, and other renewables. In 2023, private equity and venture capital transactions in the global renewable energy sector nearly reached $15 billion. The statistics underscore this movement.

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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. While the investment firms have not joined forces, it is possible that they may partner down the line to clinch a deal, the sources added.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

trillion private credit market, which has burgeoned into a competitive funding tool for private equity firms, are coming thick and fast. This week alone, Bloomberg News reported on direct-lending firms working on plans for potential multi-billion dollar buyouts of Adevinta, Kereis and Iris Software.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

on Monday after Reuters reported talks had stalled with two private equity firms as they weighed whether to acquire the online signature services company. Private equity firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman emerged as potential suitors in the process. Shares of DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) fell 8.5%

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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 Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Private equity firms are increasingly driving governance and management transformations at undervalued Korean companies, unlocking new avenues for value creation. The broader Asia-Pacific private equity market saw investment activity rise to $138bn in 2024, an 8.1% increase from the prior year.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the aftermath of a rejected offer for EY’s consulting business, US private equity firm TPG has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Crowe’s healthcare consulting unit. The company supports more than 1,800 hospitals and 200,000 practice-based physicians in the US.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Hastings, who joins from Eversheds Sutherland, is a finance lawyer focused on leveraged and acquisition financing. Hastings acts for private equity firms and their portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and for private credit funds in relation to transactions at all levels of capital structures.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today we are featuring the 25 Most Active Private Equity Firms on the Axial platform. The professionals at Baymark Partners possess over 100 years of successful experience in acquiring, investing and operating growth companies. This is the third installment of our buyside ranking series.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pennsylvania-based private equity firm Taurus Private Markets has held the final close of Taurus Private Markets Fund II, which initially targeted $150m, with over $211m in capital commitments. The firm also invests with blue chip venture capital partnerships with target fund sizes less than $750m.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2021 vintage, which saw significant private equity deployment, will be four years old in 2025, making many successful deals ripe for exit.” In September, Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners struck an $8.4bn deal to take collaboration software company Smartsheet private.

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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). By contrast, Ares has the ability to complete much more sophisticated deals, including leveraged buyouts.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Scrivani was most recently a partner at international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Scrivani advises private equity firms and public and private clients on leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions, public company acquisitions, sales and divestitures and mergers of equals.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Global private investments firm Apollo Global Management has set its sights on doubling its assets under management to $1.5tn by 2029, positioning itself as a major player in global debt underwriting, according to a report by the Financial Times. 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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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

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

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.

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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. The Ares portfolio is diversified across 466 borrowers backed by 222 private equity sponsors that invest in those borrowers’ equity.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recently, however, the stock has been on an upswing, climbing nearly 62% from its low of $38 in this past October amid rumors of a potential buyout by a private equity firm. The company currently caters to over 1.4 million paying customers, while nearly a billion people use its platform globally.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

A Review of Private Equity Industry Trends Disruption doesn’t quite begin to describe the experience of private equity investment trends in the last few years. The Fed’s moves to combat inflation put private equity firms in a tricky situation. 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.

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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.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. 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. They run over $27 billion in, in assets.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Lit was founded in Birmingham, AL, in 2019 and leverages public-private partnerships with local governments and municipalities to build and operate last-mile fiber networks. The company now has networks in place, under construction or in planning in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The future is extremely bright at Lit.”

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Private equity deal sourcing is a bit like hunting for unicorns in a field of donkeys: everyone claims theyve discovered the secret sauce, but only a few actually have a process that worksand even those will admit that luck sometimes plays a role. The more channels you develop, the richer your funnel of potential deals will be.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

At the same time regulators are becoming ever more fearful about what’s being hidden from view, and the threat of contagion from any private-markets meltdown to the banking system and real-economy jobs. Investors simply want firms to return to their founding mission: Improving the companies they own.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The firm’s pushback underscores the impact of the Biden administration’s more aggressive antitrust agenda on Wall Street, which is putting unprecedented pressure on private equity firms. In a statement, KKR emphasised its commitment to meeting regulatory obligations.

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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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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. 00:24:05 [Speaker Changed] What, what sort of companies was it?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I mean, if you’re buying debt in, in, you name it company at 20 cents to 60 cents, and they’re owned by, you know, marquee private equity firms, what’s gonna happen with that? Panossian ] 00:12:21 Yeah, it would, there were times in certain companies that it really did feel like we were alone in a room.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The potential acquisition would mark one of the largest leveraged buyouts in recent months. The company began considering a sale in 2024 after receiving acquisition interest. The companys major partners include AWS, Google, Capgemini, Microsoft, and IBM. Can`t stop reading?

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The approach involves supporting portfolio companies as they reduce emissions to build value over the long term. indirect auto finance company, to acquire up to US$200 million per year in residual certificates of auto loan receivables securitizations. This is our third investment in the company for a total of US$150 million.

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