Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Global law firm White & Case is expanding its global debt finance 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.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Private credit lenders and banks are vying to offer debt financing for a potential acquisition of US education software provider PowerSchool Holdings, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a BDC that invests in technology, life sciences, and sustainable energy businesses. 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. Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

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.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Dee Kuchukulla (New York) guides leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on an array of complex transactions, from leveraged buyouts and sales to carve-outs, cross-border deals, joint ventures, and take-privates across industries. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

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. Some top industry figures don’t dispute the perils of gulping down more and more varieties of debt. “On Surging borrowing costs have stalled that engine.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They grew a business where they issued junk debt. 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. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

UK sponsor-backed financing activity experienced a modest slowdown in Q3 2024, as ongoing M&A sluggishness and seasonal dynamics impacted deal flow, according to the latest data from global investment bank, Houlihan Lokey.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Private credit lenders are in discussions to provide $4.5bn in debt financing for Sycamore Partners potential buyout of Walgreens Boots Alliance, as part of a plan to break up the pharmacy chain into separate business units, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

billion) funds approach to investing. After nearly 20 years in investment banking, at Deutsche Bank and then Credit Suisse, in 2013 he moved to Borealis, OMERS infrastructure arm, to run infrastructure globally and then head the capital markets team. We are starting to see LBO [leveraged buyout] activity pick up again.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. RITHOLTZ: From the equity side or the debt side?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

Over the past decade, there has been, for lack of a better word, a democratization of private equity and and private debt. Private debt, private equity stepped into that and really filled that gap for, especially for institutional investors. Leverage buyouts requires leverage. Some markup.

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