The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Horizon Technology Finance: Dividend yield 11.4% In the world of technology-focused BDCs, Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ: HRZN) is one of the closest peers to Hercules. This is an interesting strategy, and has helped Ares earn a positive reputation among businesses that often go overlooked by large investment banks.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

dividend yield Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ: HRZN) is comparable to Hercules in that it also specializes in high-yield term loans to technology and life-sciences businesses. There are many companies in need of capital or advisory services, but they are not big enough or deemed suitable by investment banks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With Hercules's dividend yield of 10.3%, the first one-third of the proposed $100,000 investment could yield $3,433 of dividend income for your portfolio. Image source: Getty Images Horizon Technology Finance: 10% dividend yield One of Hercules's biggest rivals is Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ: HRZN).

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ultimately though, whether a record $10bn+ deal is agreed or not, depends on how well investment banks, the traditional source of finance for leveraged buyouts, manage to regain the ground they have lost to private lenders over the past 18 months or so, said Hirschmann.

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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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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Chris Holt (Boston) represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide range of financing transactions, including syndicated, and private credit facilities, ABL facilities, and mezzanine financings. Gwen’s practice ranges from in-court restructurings to bespoke, out-of-court liability management solutions.

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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. Perhaps so, but resentment among banks is bound to increase as Ares pushes into another lucrative domain of theirs — funding of leveraged buyouts.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

“On things like NAV loans and margin loans, it’s just additional leverage and if things go against you, you can have a problem,” Stavros, KKR’s cohead of global private equity, said at the Berlin event. Many were acquired at the buyout boom’s zenith in 2021 and 2022, and often paid for by piling them up with floating-rate debt.

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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. That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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 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.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

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. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And it’s a, a reasonable way to do financing depending on what risk level the, the bar the lender wants to assume. The investment banks were stuck with syndications that they had committed to, to place in the markets with price caps on the, on the coupons. And, and there just is less competition from the banks.

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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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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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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim.

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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. When you were there, was it a financial engineering firm, or was it a more traditional credit finance firm? You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? And I imagine the same is true vice versa, when a US company goes to the uk, at least outside of finance, finance seems to have found, found a foothold in Europe from the us. Leverage buyouts requires leverage.

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