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The private equity firms aim to refinance or reprice Adevintas existing 4.5bn debt and may raise an additional 2bn, potentially for a shareholder dividend, according to sources familiar with the matter. The firms acquired Adevinta in 2023 in one of Europes largest leveragedbuyouts backed by private credit.
are in talks to provide as much as $8 billion in financing for a buyout of DocuSign Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG are also among the lenders considering a role in funding what would be the largest leveragedbuyout of the year so far, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the transaction.
Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveragedbuyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Insight Partners, Blackstone, and Clearlake Capital, the joint owners of Diligent Corporation, are considering strategic options for the corporate governance software provider, including a potential sale that could value the business at around $7bn, including debt, according to a report by Reuters.
The company specializes in an instrument called venture debt -- or loans made at high interest rates. For this reason, once the start-up reaches a maturity point generating consistent cash flow, it may seek out alternative financing options like debt. Horizon Technology Finance: 9.9% Hercules Capital: 11.5%
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.
Private equity giant Apollo is making a push into the high-grade debt market, an area long controlled by traditional banks, steered by former UBS, Swiss Re, and the World Bank executive Jamshid Ehsani, who joined the firm in 2010, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Global law firm White & Case is expanding its global debtfinance practice and has appointed Lauren Winter, who has joined from Shearman & Sterling where she was Counsel, as a Partner in London. White & Case has dedicated bank lending, private credit & direct lending and borrower finance teams.
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.
Leveragedbuyoutfinancings accounted for almost half (42%) of all UK transactions in H1 2024, compared with just 29% in H1 2023, according to the latest MidCapMonitor report by global investment bank Houlihan Lokey.
percentage points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate and at a discounted price of 98 cents on the dollar. percentage points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate and at a discounted price of 98 cents on the dollar.
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 leveragedbuyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 Ares Management Corp. has raised A$2.6 billion ($1.7
The firm invests equity in a range of transaction types involving a change of ownership, such as management buyouts, leveragedbuyouts, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, and management buy-ins. TPG Twin Brook was the administrative agent on the debtfinancing to support IGP’s buy of AMG.
Private credit lenders and banks are vying to offer debtfinancing for a potential acquisition of US education software provider PowerSchool Holdings, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter. The financing could include a $2.4bn funded term loan, a $500m delayed-draw term loan and a $300m revolver.
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.
The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that the new fund will provide senior secured loans to finance European leveragedbuyouts. The firm was founded in 2016 by former Canada Pension Plan Investment Board executive David Allen.
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 debtfinance.
Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners are close to agreeing a $2bn debt package with a group of private credit lenders including Apollo Global Management and Blackstone to help finance their leveragedbuyout of software developer Alteryx, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The company typically supports start-ups that have raised funding from venture capital or private equity firms and are looking to augment the balance sheet with some debt. Horizon Technology Finance: Dividend yield 11.4% By contrast, Ares has the ability to complete much more sophisticated deals, including leveragedbuyouts.
Hercules is different from a typical bank as it tends to offer more flexible financing options. The company specializes in more complex transactions such as leveragedbuyouts , for example. The company also specializes in venture debt for start-ups in the technology, life sciences, and sustainable energy industries.
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”.
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. In every market, banks are being asked to do less, and investors are being asked to do more.
It specializes in an investment vehicle called venture debt. Founders seeking capital may eventually look for a loan since debt doesn't come attached to any ownership share of the company. However, the catch is that this debt typically carries a much higher interest rate than a loan from a bank. Hercules Capital: 10.3%
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.
Steel debt. With companies that rely on considerable leverage in their operations, the rise in interest rates is still working its way through income statements. It could take some time for earnings to fall to reflect higher debtfinancing costs. Shareholders will receive $55 per share for their U.S.
But Ares executives insist their firm remains steadfast in its goal of offering institutional investors more than just private debt. William Benjamin, head of Ares’ real estate group, describes the parent company’s prowess in private debt as an invaluable fundraising tool. Thus far, Ares has diversified farthest into real estate.
His practice focuses on advising private equity firms and other financial institutions on transactions including leveragedbuyouts, venture and growth capital investments, joint-ventures and co-investments, opportunistic and distressed acquisitions, take-privates and carve-outs, across the investment lifespan through to exit.
Bain Capital Credit’s Private Credit Group invested in 30 businesses across 15 industries in H1 2023, supporting the refinancing, leveragedbuyout, and add-on acquisition activity of both new and existing portfolio companies. Like this article?
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Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveragedbuyout 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 leveragedbuyouts to generate some of that growth.
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Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, Klinsky was co-founder of the leveragedbuyout group at Goldman Sachs, where he helped execute over $3 billion of pioneering transactions for Goldman and its clients. He also explains how Forstmann Little was the white shoe alternative to the firms doing junk bond financing.
Before establishing Drakai Capital, Sam dedicated 15 years (2004-2019) at Société Générale’s proprietary trading desks, initially as a credit derivatives trader, then advancing as a quantitative portfolio manager spearheading capital structure arbitrage and cross-asset absolute return strategies across European and U.S. markets.
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Leveragedbuyout volumes remained down from historical highs in Q2 2024, as did EBITDA purchase price multiples, which decreased from 11.5x The spread tightening and overall positive performance trends from strong credits caused the average senior credit mark in the Lincoln Senior Debt Index (LSDI) to increase from 98.4%
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Fewer Large LeveragedBuyouts Tighter monetary policy and a more uncertain macroeconomic outlook make large lenders more hesitant to finance large leveragedbuyouts. This could lead to a decrease in this type of buyout, as buyers may not be able to finance their acquisitions with debt.
Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale. 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.
Victor has had a fascinating career, stood up the distressed debt department at Citibank before doing the same thing at Merrill Lynch a few years later. They do everything from hard assets like real estate, infrastructure, aircraft, power plants, to private debt, event driven opportunities. 15 businesses with over 90,000 employees.
With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. Private credit provided 65% of loans for the leveragedbuyout (LBO) market in 2021 and 86% for the market as of year to date 2023. or not at all, substantially lower than average leverage found in regional banks, currently levered at 9.7x.
.” Industries: Manufacturing, Industrials, Business Services, Distribution, Healthcare, Materials Visit Shoreview’s Profile “Source Capital, LLC is a private equity firm founded in 2002 which makes both control equity investments and mezzanine debt investments in mature, lower middle-market U.S.
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? But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveragedfinance business. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.
They grew a business where they issued junk debt. And what was interesting was the first leveragedbuyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveragedbuyout of a public company. There was no junk debt available in the market.
So, when I was in graduate school, I thought about all the different types of investing or advisory work I could do, and I, you know, really triangulated on distressed debt being the most interesting part of the, of the markets where I could participate in PWA Capital. Ritholtz ] 00:03:30 Yeah, Sandberg is a fascinating guy.
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