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 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. There’s leverage. But Barry, can I tell you, but go back, go back to one thought though.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 20, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital. Tampa Bay Times ) • Is Michael Platt the Highest Earner in Finance?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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 hedge fund at PWA was doing. Panossian ] 00:08:19 The liabilities, obviously the hedge funds had redemptions. That had mismatched assets.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2023

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.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 19, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital. David Byrne, Boy George and more pay tribute to one of the most unusual pop bands. (

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

How on earth is there still a carried interest tax loophole for private equity, hedge funds, and venture capital? Aren’t the big firms and the LBOs, the leveraged buyouts, very different than the middle market, smaller private equity firms that provide capital and equity to small companies.

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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. If you didn’t understand how the semiconductor worked, if you didn’t understand how the software was built.

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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. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. And I actually started out of business school.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

Made the decision to leave just to try something new at that point, went to Harvard for my MBA and then had made the ch his choice at that point to switch out of biotech and interviewed with a whole bunch of of firms and ended up getting into the hedge fund world, doing capital raising for two large hedge funds.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

It rose to prominence with leveraged buyouts, the kinds of transactions made famous by “Barbarians at the Gate” and other chronicles of 1980s finance. It has also moved into hedge funds, credit trading, infrastructure investing and more. These firms have since branched out into nearly every corner of finance.

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