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. He has a versatile skillset and deep experience with platform acquisitions and sales.

Mergers and Acquisitions 75

Mergers and Acquisitions Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 75

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.

Leveraged Buyouts 59

Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Pension Funds Mergers and Acquisitions 59

Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

Leveraged buyout volumes remained down from historical highs in Q2 2024, as did EBITDA purchase price multiples, which decreased from 11.5x Lincoln International provides mergers and acquisitions advisory, private funds and capital markets advisory, and valuations and fairness opinions.

Buyout 100

Buyout Enterprise Values Leveraged Buyouts Mergers and Acquisitions 100

Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

JLL Partners is dedicated to partnering with companies that it can fundamentally help build into market leaders through a combination of strategic mergers and acquisitions, market repositioning, and product and service line expansion. We know how to operate in situations that are not “packaged” for sale.

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Buyout Mergers and Acquisitions 59

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 the entire merger department of Goldman Sachs in 1983 was 32 people. But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business.

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

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.

Leveraged Buyouts 105

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105

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? Tell us about the merger in the early days that gave us General Electric, and who ran that company.

Banks 103

Banks Mergers and Acquisitions Capital Companies 103