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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 investmentbank. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leveragebuyouts. There’s leverage.
And what was interesting was the first leveragedbuyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveragedbuyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveragedbuyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.
Had a group based in Los Angeles that had a long and, and, and experienced team that was investing in distressed debt and really kept separate and apart from what the rest of the hedgefund at PWA was doing. There were so much for selling from the, something called SIVs, the special investment vehicles, right.
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