The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Generally speaking, during the early days of a start-up , founders will raise money from venture capital or private equity firms in exchange for equity. For this reason, once the start-up reaches a maturity point generating consistent cash flow, it may seek out alternative financing options like debt.

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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. The financing could include a $2.4bn funded term loan, a $500m delayed-draw term loan and a $300m revolver.

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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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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

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.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The report cites CEO Marc Rowan as unveiling the ambitious growth plan during the firm’s investor day presentation, signalling a strategic shift as companies increasingly turn to private capital for financing, rather than traditional bank loans. We are just at the beginning of this trend.”

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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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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. Horizon Technology Finance: Dividend yield 11.4% Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5% dividend yield.

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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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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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% It specializes in an investment vehicle called venture debt.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

PE firms adding hedge funds to approved lender lists Submitted 16/08/2023 - 11:22am Private equity firms, including buyout major KKR & Co, are beginning to add hedge funds to their 'white lists' of approved lenders used to arrange funding for leveraged buyout deals, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC agrees €1bn deal for Dutch infrastructure firm DIF Capital Partners Submitted 05/09/2023 - 11:29am European private equity firm CVC has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dutch infrastructure investor DIF Capital Partners in a deal worth around €1bn in cash and shares, with a commitment to acquire the remaining shares "over time".

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC to pay €1bn for Dutch infrastructure firm DIF Capital Partners Submitted 05/09/2023 - 11:29am European private equity firm CVC has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dutch infrastructure investor DIF Capital Partners in a deal worth around €1bn in cash and shares, with a commitment to acquire the remaining shares "over time".

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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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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. It’s easy enough to understand why Ares Cap would prefer to lend to a big firm than to a small- or middle-market one.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

Hedge Funds 52

Hedge Funds Due Diligence Portfolios Leveraged Buyouts 52

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 Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. 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? And now we call it the private equity industry.

Private Equity Firms 69

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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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Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Pension Funds Mergers and Acquisitions 59

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I mean, if you’re buying debt in, in, you name it company at 20 cents to 60 cents, and they’re owned by, you know, marquee private equity firms, what’s gonna happen with that? And it’s a, a reasonable way to do financing depending on what risk level the, the bar the lender wants to assume.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

So, is it, is it safe to say finance was always in the career plans? 00:02:24 [Speaker Changed] Finance and business was always in the career plans. Running a $19 billion private equity, opportunistic credit firm was not. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale.

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Debt Leveraging Banks Leveraged Buyouts 57

Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

That’s weighing heavily on the current round of fundraising by private equity firms, who are known in the industry as “sponsors” or general partners. “PE The proliferation of NAV, PIK and similar has also deepened connections between PE firms and their credit cousins, a possible contagion risk if things go wrong.

Buyout 59

Buyout Debt Leveraging Pension Funds 59

Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

Brookfield’s ascendance comes as some private equity firms struggle to complete buyouts amid shaky financing markets and rich price demands from sellers. He’s looking for more, saying in May that Brookfield is exploring a number of take-privates across every aspect of its business.

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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. RITHOLTZ: At Vogue, though. MORGENSON: At Vogue.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this role, Mr. Jhooty is responsible for the Total Fund Management department where he leads the balancing and financing portfolio, which is invested in global public securities, as well as balance sheet management, tactical positioning, trading and portfolio design. through an equity financing round and a secondary transaction.

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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. When you were there, was it a financial engineering firm, or was it a more traditional credit finance firm? But I think — RITHOLTZ: You were a kid banker and a finance banker.

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Banks Mergers and Acquisitions Capital Companies 102

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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