Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 24, 2024

David Hirschman, Co-Head of Permira Credit, a specialist credit investor operating across direct lending, CLO management, structured credit and strategic opportunities, is expecting to see a record $10bn private credit loan agreed either this year or the next, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Leveraging Investment Banking 74

Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

But Ares executives insist their firm remains steadfast in its goal of offering institutional investors more than just private debt. Because we are so successful on the private debt side, when we go to institutional investors across the globe and pitch real estate, chances are they are already in an Ares product,” he says.

Pension Funds 130

Pension Funds Buyout Leveraged Buyouts Asset Management 130

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. By overhauling its forecasting processes and using scenario analysis, the company was able to secure bridge financing and successfully launch a new product, bolstering investor confidence.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Leveraged Buyouts 95

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Jamie Darch (Chicago) is a health care lawyer who guides life sciences and health care companies and investors on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters. She brings years of experience counseling clients on a wide array of deal strategies. Her advice spans private equity transactions, privacy breaches, and pharmaceutical compliance.

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JMI Equity

OCTOBER 1, 2024

JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software companies, is excited to announce that JMI Partners, Larry Contrella and Suken Vakil have been named to GrowthCap’s Top Software Investors of 2024. Suken Vakil , Partner, joined JMI in 2012.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Oak Hill’s investment will enable Lit to bring state-of-the-art, high-speed fiber-to-the-home networks to more than 200,000 locations over the next few years. Oak Hill is an experienced investor in broadband expansion through fast-growing, independently owned networks in multiple states. “We Stephens Inc.

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Capital Leveraged Buyouts New York Stock Exchange Private Equity Firms 40

Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Noisy or not, his comment strikes at the heart of an issue that’s starting to disturb everyone from investors to regulators: PE’s current mania for financial engineering. Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale.

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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. ’cause Chuck was a very cautious investor.

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

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. I get hired by Citibank in planning.

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Debt Leveraging Banks Leveraged Buyouts 59

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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Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt 105

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

So it’s kind of an interesting dichotomy to be a distressed investor in the context of an equity manager that that was always looking for, you know, looking for the glass half full rather than the glass half empty. Well, [ Ritholtz ] 00:04:57 Well, you know, dead investors, they just want their money back.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

AGL Credit Management, Barclays private credit partner, has struggled to attract fresh investor capital nearly a year after announcing its strategic partnership with the bank, dampening expectations that the tie-up would bolster Barclays ability to compete in the $1.6tn private credit market, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Funds Buyout 73

Private Equity Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

The private credit sector, a $1.5tn industry that includes specialised lenders like Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, and KKR, has long been a popular asset class for institutional investors, including pension funds.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Previous to Bay Pine, David was one of the co-founders of Silver Lake Investors, a legendary firm from the nineties and two thousands. I couldn’t understand why investors were pouring money into venture firms, pouring money into growth equity, and not doing anything to invest in technology using a private equity format.

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Consulting Consultants Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 52

The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

I worked for two small and medium sized businesses owned by the same investor group and cut my teeth on those. In either of those cases, you weren’t working as an investor, right? How did those experiences at Bridgewater and and Bren Howard affect how you look at the world of investing? Sunaina Sinha : Absolutely.

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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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