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Banks ramp up leveraged buyouts as interest rates fall

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Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Akin adds Partner to PE transactions practice

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Alperovich has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority and growth investments, joint ventures, carve-outs and divestitures, restructurings, SPACs and de-SPACs, and investments in general partners.

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Akin adds partner to private capital team in Boston

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Lyman also advises private equity sponsors in complex domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, carve-outs, recapitalisations and general corporate matters.

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Jackson Walker adds Partner to corporate & securities practice 

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Rose specialises in mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, private equity and general corporate matters, according to a press statement.

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McDermott adds PE partner to London transactions practice

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She has pan-European cross sector experience in a variety of corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, structured and minority equity investments, equity and debt restructurings and management equity plans.

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Kramer Levin appoints Co-Managing Partner in Paris

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Pontillo, whose practice focuses on leveraged buyouts and growth capital and venture capital transactions, joined Kramer Levin in 2021. He also advises companies on complex international mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and joint venture agreements.

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Paul Weiss adds PE partner in London

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) has appointed Christopher Sullivan as a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department based in London. A cross-border M&A specialist, Sullivan joins from Clifford Chance where he led the UK private equity practice.