Private Equity Wire

MAY 22, 2024

The proposed amount of funded debt from private lenders would be significantly higher than seven times PowerSchool’s earnings, according to Bloomberg’s sources, which banks may struggle to match due to regulatory constraints.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ultimately though, whether a record $10bn+ deal is agreed or not, depends on how well investment banks, the traditional source of finance for leveraged buyouts, manage to regain the ground they have lost to private lenders over the past 18 months or so, said Hirschmann.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Winter focuses on cross-border and UK acquisition finance and restructurings, advising investment banks, alternative credit providers, corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors on various debt capital structures in the European large-cap and mid-cap markets.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Historically, the focus was on leveraged buyouts and cost-cutting to boost profitability, but this approach is no longer sufficient. This evolution leverages technology and data analytics to streamline processes and unlock value. Treasury 4.x,

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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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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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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Lit was founded in Birmingham, AL, in 2019 and leverages public-private partnerships with local governments and municipalities to build and operate last-mile fiber networks. SCP provides public and private companies with capital for purposes of growth, recapitalization, and leveraged buyouts. Stephens Inc.

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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, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But, but I think if I was to go back through my career, that moment in time, you know, when there is this big wave coming, because it was the start of the high yield market, the leverage loan market grew dramatically, you know, from 200 billion in the mid nineties to $5 trillion today, high yield and leverage loans. And still growing.

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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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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

“It gets back to the ability to grow the operating performance of the companies and making sure that returns” come from that rather than from “financial leverage,” he tells Bloomberg. 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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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And, and as a result, there is a, a condition where there’s risks and opportunities in the current market.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

UK sponsor-backed financing activity experienced a modest slowdown in Q3 2024, as ongoing M&A sluggishness and seasonal dynamics impacted deal flow, according to the latest data from global investment bank, Houlihan Lokey.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that private credit firms, including HPS Investment Partners and Ares Management, are among those vying to finance what would be one of the largest leveraged buyout (LBO) debt deals in over a decade.

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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. He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim.

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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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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

JANUARY 7, 2025

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. But also it helped private equity do deals, right?

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