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MiB: Steven Klinsky, New Mountain Capital

The Big Picture

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, Klinsky was co-founder of the leveraged buyout 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.

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OTPP and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners Acquire Compass Datacenters

Pension Pulse

This is making the deal easier to complete at a time when high interest rates and market volatility have made debt for leveraged buyouts scarcer and more expensive. The terms of Compass' debt allow for it to be taken over by a new owner without it being refinanced, one of the sources said.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And I had no work experience in anything.

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Transcript: David Roux, BayPine, Silver Lake Partners

The Big Picture

One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts. And finally that they were companies run by children, young, young, young folks. These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

COHAN: I was doing something I probably should never have been allowed to do, which was write about public education in Wake County, which was fine. And no one had ever done that, I had to get special permission from the Board of Education in Brooklyn back when they still do that. You start writing for the Raleigh Times.

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