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BC Partners eyes up to €6bn for new flagship fund, leveraging strong exit activity

Private Equity Insights

The London-based private equity firm expects to launch fundraising in the second quarter of 2025 and targets a first close by year-end.

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Sportradar Group Ag (SRAD) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Importantly, this strong performance flows through to our bottom line as we reach an inflection point in our operating leverage earlier than anticipated. We made a strong start into leveraging our existing partnerships with global operators entering the market while expanding ties with local operators seeking additional capabilities.

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Hargreaves Lansdown, Thoma Bravo, and Brookfield leverage EU’s low valuations

Private Equity Wire

Private equity firms increased their activity in Europe last year, capitalising on the continent’s economic difficulties to acquire large companies at lower valuations, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fintech Could Be One of The Largest IPOs in 2025

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This has spurred visions about how businesses could leverage this technology to transform industries. One company that has leveraged AI to enhance shopping and customer experience is Klarna, the Swedish buy now, pay later ( BNPL ) company.

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Carnival Corp. (CCL) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

In under two years, we have paid down over $8 billion of debt off our peak and significantly reduced interest expense, which, coupled with our improving EBITDA, has improved our leverage metrics tremendously. times net debt to EBITDA, closing in on our expectation to reach investment-grade leverage metrics in 2026. We achieved a 4.3

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The Smartest High-Yield Energy Stocks to Buy With $1,000 Right Now

The Motley Fool

By and large, this structure has been eliminated, and MLPs are generally in better financial shape as a result, carrying less leverage and being able to grow their business through free cash flow. The company has also always taken a more conservative approach with leverage and maintained a strong balance sheet.

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Could BigBear.ai Become the Next Palantir Technologies?

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The company's Pangiam digital identity brand leverages biometrics with real-time images and videos to automatically detect anomalies and secure against threats. computer vision leadership Where BigBear.ai stands out is through early leadership in the field of AI-powered computer vision. Several major airports globally are current BigBear.ai