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. A McKinsey report highlighted that while 60% of GPs claim to focus on operational improvements, only 40% of LPs believe these efforts materially impact portfolio performance. Treasury 4.x,

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Chris Holt (Boston) represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide range of financing transactions, including syndicated, and private credit facilities, ABL facilities, and mezzanine financings. Gwen’s practice ranges from in-court restructurings to bespoke, out-of-court liability management solutions.

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JMI Equity

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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

Leveraged Buyouts 40

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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.

Capital 40

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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.

Buyout 59

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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.

Debt 59

Debt Leveraging Banks Leveraged Buyouts 59

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. What sort of risks does this create for your portfolio companies?

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

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 26, 2023

So, so let’s talk about some of those legacy portfolio issues. 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. But the biggest part of that capital structure, about 60% of it are the AAA securities. That’s an example.

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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.

Consulting 52

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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. And hes used that vast and varied experience to revamp the C$138.2

Buyout 52

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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. It was like 13 out of 13 in the GE portfolio.

Banks 103

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

And we get asked by pension plans, endowments, foundations, family offices saying, Hey, we’ve held this portfolio now for eight years, nine years, it’s getting long in the tooth. Or actually my predecessor made these investments. Leverage buyouts requires leverage. So IE the investor in the fund itself.

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