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Ropes & Gray’s latest Partner promotions include several PE lawyers

Private Equity Wire

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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Lit Communities Announces Majority Investment from Oak Hill Capital to Accelerate Broadband Deployment

Oakhill

Bank Street Group LLC served as exclusive financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP and Maynard Nexsen served as legal counsel to Lit Communities and existing equityholders in connection with this transaction. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP served as legal counsel to Oak Hill. Stephens Inc.

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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

“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. “We

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Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: Sunaina Sinha, Global Head of Private Capital with Raymond James

The Big Picture

It’s also legal and regulatory. Leverage buyouts requires leverage. And when rates were so low, the leverage went, it was cheap and, and and easily accessible. If you look at the m and a volumes at at most of the major investment banks, including at Raymond G’s volumes came down.

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