The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

This is an interesting strategy, and has helped Ares earn a positive reputation among businesses that often go overlooked by large investment banks. By contrast, Ares has the ability to complete much more sophisticated deals, including leveraged buyouts.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

There are many companies in need of capital or advisory services, but they are not big enough or deemed suitable by investment banks. This is where Ares comes into the equation. Like Hercules, Ares also has a low nonaccrual rate of just 1.7%.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Dee Kuchukulla (New York) guides leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on an array of complex transactions, from leveraged buyouts and sales to carve-outs, cross-border deals, joint ventures, and take-privates across industries. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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JMI Equity

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Prior to joining JMI, Larry was an analyst in the multi-industries group in the investment banking division at Merrill Lynch & Co. Suken is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities as well as providing strategic and operational support to portfolio companies. Suken Vakil , Partner, joined JMI in 2012.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Historically, the focus was on leveraged buyouts and cost-cutting to boost profitability, but this approach is no longer sufficient. With over 15 years of experience in investment banking, asset management, and private equity, Lou helps align Zanders’ value proposition with investor value creation strategies.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This is an interesting approach because Ares tends to work with businesses that may be perceived as too risky for other BDCs or may not fit the ideal client profile for an investment bank. At a P/B of 1.05, Ares is trading right in line with its 10-year average.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

SCP provides public and private companies with capital for purposes of growth, recapitalization, and leveraged buyouts. SCP identifies opportunities to work with industry-leading management teams with a long-term perspective. For more information, see www.stephenscapitalpartners.com. Stephens Inc.

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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

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 Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

Rather, many of the companies in Ares' portfolio are lower middle market businesses that go overlooked by investment banks or private equity investors. ARCC Price to Book Value data by YCharts At a price-to-book (P/B) ratio of just 1.1, Ares stock is trading essentially in line with its 10-year average.

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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. The amount of business that banks do with us now is more than it has ever been.” In 2022, Ares’ direct lending tied to such buyouts totaled $26.4

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. There’s leverage.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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. Another floating ra, another interest rate sensitive asset class or LBOs, highly levered leveraged buyouts supported by floating rate liabilities. That’s an example.

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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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