Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Taurus Private Markets invests in value-oriented, lower middle market leveraged buyout and private credit partnerships with target fund sizes less than $1.25bn. The firm invests in leveraged buyout, private credit, and venture capital opportunities based in North America.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., billion.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Stefan Meister, the Chairman of $142m Swiss private investment firm Partners Group, is predicting that private equity dealmaking will return to record levels in the next year or so, according to a report by Bloomberg. That requires new products that look a little bit more like mutual funds,” he said.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., billion.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Over the last 10 years, Hercules stock has a total return of 230%. The company specializes in more complex transactions such as leveraged buyouts , for example. The chart below tracks the total return of Ares stock versus a number of leading S&P 500 -themed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Image source: Getty Images.

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American Investment Council

MAY 6, 2024

“Private credit is playing a crucial role in supporting businesses and delivering impressive returns for investors, especially in uncertain times,” said Drew Maloney, President & CEO of the American Investment Council. In 2022 private credit funds had an internal rate of return of 7.59% compared to a return of -3.24

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

DocuSign boasts a market capitalization of just under $11 billion as of Monday's close, which would potentially make its acquisition one of the largest leveraged buyouts in recent years. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. What's next for DocuSign stock?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With companies that rely on considerable leverage in their operations, the rise in interest rates is still working its way through income statements. On Friday, speculation arose that DocuSign might seek to sell itself , either through a third-party buyer or in a leveraged buyout. Admittedly, P/E ratios aren't perfect.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Business development companies (BDC) can be particularly good sources of dividend income, paying above market returns. Over a longer time frame, investors can see in the chart below, Horizon has a total return of nearly 140%. HRZN total return level; data by YCharts. Hercules Capital: 9.5% Ares Capital: 9.3%

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Apollo’s chief executive, Marc Rowan, has emphasised that the firm’s biggest opportunity in private credit is not in the competitive market for funding leveraged buyouts. These deals offer Apollo higher returns than conventional loans or bonds, with an added premium for the illiquidity of private debt.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

During the last decade, Hercules stock had a total return of 235%. By contrast, Ares has the ability to complete much more sophisticated deals, including leveraged buyouts. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. This approach appears to be working. dividend yield.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They point to several factors driving this trend, including record levels of uninvested capital, more affordable financing due to falling interest rates, and pressure from investors seeking returns through asset sales.

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Financial Times M&A

MAY 29, 2023

Lenders return to funding leveraged buyouts after painful year in which fees were hit hard

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Any deal would be substantial, given DocuSign's market cap at just over $13 billion as of this writing, potentially making it one of the largest leveraged buyouts in recent years. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Adobe and DocuSign.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Having begun life as a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts, Apollo has grown into a major player in debt underwriting, with its growth having been fuelled by its insurance subsidiary, Athene, which provides a steady source of low-cost capital for its deals and is currently holding $33bn in capital reserves.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

During the past 10 years, Hercules has a total return of 218%. Over the past decade, this company's stock has returned 152% to investors (with dividends reinvested). The generous stock returns could suggest that Horizon has done a stellar job consistently working with strong, reliable growth companies in emerging markets.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2024

Even after selling a big chunk of shares to finance his leveraged buyout of Twitter in 2022, Musk owns roughly 13% of Tesla. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of January 8, 2024 Keith Speights has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Why does Musk want more control of Tesla?

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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. Treasury 4.x,

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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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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

The returns that we are able to generate in this kind of market are about as good as we have seen in 15 years.” 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.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Our strategy leverages this digital shift to enhance trade transparency and reduce human bias, positioning us to exploit market inefficiencies more effectively. A: The digital transformation has indeed been a catalyst in the systematic credit domain. markets.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moreover, the company is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to summarize agreements, analyze business and legal contracts to assess risks and opportunities, and extract common key terms and clauses to simplify the document review process. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

Leveraged buyout volumes remained down from historical highs in Q2 2024, as did EBITDA purchase price multiples, which decreased from 11.5x leverage cushion for companies generating over $100 million of EBITDA, indicating covenants at close were set tighter for these smaller businesses. in the second half of 2023 to 11.1x

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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

The secondaries market for private investments allows fund investors – the limited partners that pledge money to a fund managed by a general partner, and share in its returns – to buy and sell stakes in illiquid funds before those investments are realized, usually at a discount. Aren't leveraged buyouts in the doldrums?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

Kiplinger ) • Bosses are obsessed with returning to the office. Here’s why it’s already out of their hands : Your boss is capital-O obsessed with returning to the office. In many countries, that meant returning to the office for the first time in two years. LEI for the U.S.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Fewer Large Leveraged Buyouts Tighter monetary policy and a more uncertain macroeconomic outlook make large lenders more hesitant to finance large leveraged buyouts. This could lead to a decrease in this type of buyout, as buyers may not be able to finance their acquisitions with debt.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles? Commercial properties, such as office spaces or retail buildings, can offer higher potential returns. If so, it’s time to delve into alternative investments.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles? Commercial properties, such as office spaces or retail buildings, can offer higher potential returns. If so, it’s time to delve into alternative investments.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Investors simply want firms to return to their founding mission: Improving the companies they own. 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. Oleg Melentyev, Bank of America Corp.’s

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Equity returns enter a different era Although the S&P has returned an impressive 19% year-to-date through November 15, seven mega-cap tech stocks (+72%) are largely responsible; the other 493 stocks in the index are up only 7%. During the QE era, market multiples worked in tandem with earnings growth to produce historic returns.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Credit crusaders fill the wall street void Submitted 27/06/2023 - 1:54pm This article first appeared in the March 2023 T ech Buyouts Insights Report Private credit funds could become a more permanent fixture in tech’s leveraged buyout market thanks to their speed of execution and reliability, especially in challenging macroeconomic conditions.

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Udu

MAY 24, 2023

Private equity (PE) firms continue to attract investors looking to maximize returns and minimize risks. Leveraged Buyout (LBO) An LBO transaction is an acquisition funded using a significant amount of debt where assets from both parties are used as collateral. In fact, private equity fundraising has seen a substantial rise.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It presents opportunities for outsized returns if you can transform an underperforming business into a high-efficiency machinebut only if you can source the deal before someone else does. Leveraging Technology and Data Gone are the days when deal sourcing was solely about handshakes and business cards.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Because the, today where we talk about return on equity, your margins, what’s your stock price back then if, if you were in business in, you know, the real world, they said how many people worked for you? But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. Really, really intriguing.

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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. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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