Private Equity Professional

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 2021, a record-setting year for M&A deal volume, buyers were often faced with expedited timelines and may not have been able to perform full due diligence. A few years later, deal parties are experiencing the effects of lax diligence (e.g.,

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2023

Currently, we have two Fortune 15 companies, one major consulting firm, a global F&B brand, and a leading law firm using Zoom Team Chat as a core means of text-based communications. Wondering how much leverage you have with that. How to leverage AI to improve the productivity and efficiency, right?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is still a sweeping series of rules for private fund managers that will have significant effects," said Kelly Koscuiszka, partner with Schulte Roth & Zabel law firm in New York. One thing I didn't cover is leverage. That's why they produce semi-annual and/ or quarterly results (in case of CPP Investments, it's by law).

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

We stay close to our corporate clients, of course, and spend a lot of time with law firms as well. I think we're more likely to continue our string of pearls strategy that's served us so well, and we're likely to bring our leverage back down. So it's an important capability set that we bring to our clients. But we'll see.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Virtually, all commercial, military, and government organizations are focused today on leveraging AI to improve their operations, optimize their processes, and transform their businesses. DLA Piper is using generative AI to significantly reduce the labor associated with limited partner agreement due diligence.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

But you finish in four years instead of five, and you write a special thesis, a JD/MBA thesis that has law and business. 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. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

We will have to reassess everything, including value, once we have the chance to reengage in M&A due diligence, as everything we saw last year is now stale. This new leverage target just gives us the ability to continue to execute open market share buybacks. This new leverage target also applies in the context of M&A.

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