Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

is looking to raise over $10bn across two private loan funds in Europe and the US, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as the firm seeks to further capitalize on the growth of private credit. Blackstone Credit and other major private debt managers such as Ares Management Corp. Blackstone Inc.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 as it was delisted by private equity firm TPG Inc.;

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

on Monday after Reuters reported talks had stalled with two private equity firms as they weighed whether to acquire the online signature services company. Private equity firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman emerged as potential suitors in the process. Shares of DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) fell 8.5%

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the aftermath of a rejected offer for EY’s consulting business, US private equity firm TPG has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Crowe’s healthcare consulting unit. The firm was founded in 1992 and manages assets and investments totaling $139bn.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today we are featuring the 25 Most Active Private Equity Firms on the Axial platform. ” Industries: Technology, Manufacturing, Business Services, Distribution, Healthcare Visit Baymark’s Profile “Pfingsten is an operationally-driven private equity firm focused on long-term value creation.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pennsylvania-based private equity firm Taurus Private Markets has held the final close of Taurus Private Markets Fund II, which initially targeted $150m, with over $211m in capital commitments. The firm also invests with blue chip venture capital partnerships with target fund sizes less than $750m.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

BDCs are required to pay 90% of their taxable income to investors in the form of dividends each year. The company typically supports start-ups that have raised funding from venture capital or private equity firms and are looking to augment the balance sheet with some debt. Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5%

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Global private investments firm Apollo Global Management has set its sights on doubling its assets under management to $1.5tn by 2029, positioning itself as a major player in global debt underwriting, according to a report by the Financial Times. We are just at the beginning of this trend.”

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recently, however, the stock has been on an upswing, climbing nearly 62% from its low of $38 in this past October amid rumors of a potential buyout by a private equity firm. These factors seem to have made the company an attractive option for potential leveraged buyout by private equity companies.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A&O Shearman has added Dan Graham and Paul Dunbar to the firm’s Private Equity and M&A practice in London.The pair join a team of over 200 partners who work with private capital investors across the US, UK, EMEA and APAC.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

However, this approach requires investors to speculate about which companies are best positioned to win long term. Let's dig into why these particular BDCs represent a good buying opportunity for investors. Typically, a start-up will raise funds during its early days from venture capitalists (VC) or private-equity firms.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Janet Coscino (Chicago) leads complex transactions for private equity firms, as well as public and private companies, across a variety of industries. Jamie Darch (Chicago) is a health care lawyer who guides life sciences and health care companies and investors on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters.

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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. Yet even there, private credit plays an outsize role. Even the language spoken by Ares executives suggests this is a firm where private credit is the prime mover.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

PE firms adding hedge funds to approved lender lists Submitted 16/08/2023 - 11:22am Private equity firms, including buyout major KKR & Co, are beginning to add hedge funds to their 'white lists' of approved lenders used to arrange funding for leveraged buyout deals, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

While managing current portfolios and engaging with investors can eat up the majority of a firm’s time, it’s equally important to stay up-to-date on private equity industry trends. In recent years, there has been a dramatic shift in the state of private equity.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC agrees €1bn deal for Dutch infrastructure firm DIF Capital Partners Submitted 05/09/2023 - 11:29am European private equity firm CVC has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dutch infrastructure investor DIF Capital Partners in a deal worth around €1bn in cash and shares, with a commitment to acquire the remaining shares "over time".

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC to pay €1bn for Dutch infrastructure firm DIF Capital Partners Submitted 05/09/2023 - 11:29am European private equity firm CVC has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dutch infrastructure investor DIF Capital Partners in a deal worth around €1bn in cash and shares, with a commitment to acquire the remaining shares "over time".

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 23, 2023

He began his investment career as a trainee trader at Goldman Sachs in 1982, later moving into leveraged buyouts when he joined a unit of Nomura in the early 1990s. In 2002, he spun the unit out of Nomura to form his own firm, Terra Firma Capital Partners, which raised €2.1 billion for its debut fund.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And now we call it the private equity industry.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Oak Hill is an experienced investor in broadband expansion through fast-growing, independently owned networks in multiple states. “We About Oak Hill Capital Oak Hill is a longstanding private equity firm focused on the North America middle-market. For more information, please visit www.litcommunities.net. Stephens Inc.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Understanding Middle Market Private Equity Deal Sourcing At its essence, private equity deal sourcing is the art of identifying, evaluating, and eventually pursuing investment opportunities. Leveraging Technology and Data Gone are the days when deal sourcing was solely about handshakes and business cards.

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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. For decades the private equity model seemed unassailable, transforming the industry’s image from Barbarians at the Gate to crucial pillar of capitalism.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. Not the equity was, there’s a giant Ritz Carlton on the Grand Cayman Island.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school.

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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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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Committed US$150 million to Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners XI, which focuses on leveraged buyouts and growth capital opportunities in North America and Europe, primarily in the technology & software, healthcare, financials and consumer & retail sectors. STAR Capital is a mid-market, U.K.-based

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Investors have caught on to Walgreens' troubles. The turnaround attempt isn't working out, and management has reportedly talked to private equity firm Sycamore about a leveraged buyout. Very few investors expect negative returns, and less than 2% of its shares are sold short.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The firm is in exclusive negotiations with Livingbridge for a deal valued at approximately AUD1bn, as reported by the Australian Financial Review. Australia has seen an uptick in leveraged buyout activity as private equity firms deploy capital in acquisitions and some investors seek to exit their positions.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

Passing that milestone puts the firm in the same league as mutual fund behemoths and banking giants. Private equity firms have sought to join a special club: managing $1 trillion in assets, a milestone that would put them in the same league as mutual fund behemoths like BlackRock and Fidelity and banking giants like JPMorgan Chase.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

Brookfield’s ascendance comes as some private equity firms struggle to complete buyouts amid shaky financing markets and rich price demands from sellers. The same headwinds are leading many of the biggest alternative asset managers to spend more time raising new direct-lending funds as the world of private credit booms.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

Industry leaders hope to revive and expand a deregulatory effort from Donald Trumps first term, which allowed private equity investments to be included in professionally managed retirement accounts like target-date funds.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, David Ru, is Chairman of Bay Pine, a fascinating private equity firm. They are not interested in simply flipping companies or buying firms, and then quickly selling them what they do. Much more involved than a consulting firm. Pleasure to be here.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. When we spoke, the focus and conversation really emphasizes the largest of the large private equity firms. And that’s why we’re focusing on them.

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