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 as it was delisted by private equity firm TPG Inc.;

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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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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 firm was founded in 1992 and manages assets and investments totaling $139bn.

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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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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today we are featuring the 25 Most Active Private Equity Firms on the Axial platform. ” Industries: Technology, Manufacturing, Business Services, Distribution, Healthcare Visit Baymark’s Profile “Pfingsten is an operationally-driven private equity firm focused on long-term value creation.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

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. What can make debt an optimal solution in fundraising is that, unlike equity, it doesn't dilute existing shareholders.

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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

It specializes in an investment vehicle called venture debt. Typically, a start-up will raise funds during its early days from venture capitalists (VC) or private-equity firms. In exchange for capital, founders will give up equity in their company. Hercules Capital: 10.3% This is where Hercules can add value.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

His practice focuses on advising private equity firms and other financial institutions on transactions including leveraged buyouts, 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.

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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. Yet even there, private credit plays an outsize role. Even the language spoken by Ares executives suggests this is a firm where private credit is the prime mover. percent.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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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. billion in cash and only $835 million in debt. DocuSign also saw a staggering 565% year-over-year jump in free cash flows to $240.3

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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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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

The Fed’s moves to combat inflation put private equity firms in a tricky situation. As the global economy continues to evolve and face new challenges, private equity firms will need to remain adaptable, focusing on sectors and strategies that demonstrate resilience and long-term growth potential.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

For decades the private equity model seemed unassailable, transforming the industry’s image from Barbarians at the Gate to crucial pillar of capitalism. 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.

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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. And now we call it the private equity industry.

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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. He also spent time at Sebus and More Capital before launching his own firm in 2001. Really just a fascinating person who has seen the distressed debt business from day one.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

He is the person who essentially stood up the LBO department at Goldman Sachs when essentially there were half a dozen or so private equity firms in the country. They grew a business where they issued junk debt. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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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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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Invested £93 million in a debt facility to Vårgrønn, owner of a 20% stake in Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which is an offshore wind farm currently under construction, located off the coast of the U.K. based private equity firm focused on buyout and growth opportunities. Based in the U.S.,

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The turnaround attempt isn't working out, and management has reportedly talked to private equity firm Sycamore about a leveraged buyout. billion of long-term debt. billion of long-term debt. This juicy dividend is not connected to a slam-dunk turnaround effort.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Private equity giant Carlyle Group is pursuing at least AUD500m ($324m) in debt financing to support its acquisition of Waste Services Group, an Australian waste management firm, from Livingbridge EP, according to a report by Bloomberg. A Carlyle spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Turn/River Capital agreed to acquire IT management software provider SolarWinds in a $4.4bn transaction, marking a significant move amid improving conditions for debt-funded acquisitions. The acquisition reflects a growing trend of private equity firms re-entering the leveraged buyout market as borrowing costs stabilize.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. When we spoke, the focus and conversation really emphasizes the largest of the large private equity firms. Did that change the game going forward?

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up It’s also responsible for two of the three biggest takeovers announced by investment firms globally this year. the world’s largest owner of intermodal shipping containers, for $13 billion including debt.

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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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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

Passing that milestone puts the firm in the same league as mutual fund behemoths and banking giants. Private equity firms have sought to join a special club: managing $1 trillion in assets, a milestone that would put them in the same league as mutual fund behemoths like BlackRock and Fidelity and banking giants like JPMorgan Chase.

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