Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up TPG, formerly Texas Pacific Group, is co-headquartered in Fort Worth and San Francisco and specializes in leveraged buyouts and growth capital. The firm was founded in 1992 and manages assets and investments totaling $139bn.

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 12, 2023

Qualtrics eventually sold for $12.5bn to Silver Lake and CPP in largest leveraged buyout of year

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 13, 2023

Jersey and Luxembourg filings reveal financial engineering behind the UK’s biggest leveraged buyout in a decade

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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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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 11, 2022

Leveraged buyout market is roaring back to life after a pause amid rising volatility and war in Ukraine

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 22, 2023

PE firm Roark closing in on $9.6bn Subway deal Submitted 22/08/2023 - 11:28am Roark Capital, a US private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout investments in the franchise/multi-location, restaurant and food, health and wellness, and business services sectors, is closing in on a $9.6bn deal to acquire sandwich chain Subway, according to a report (..)

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 19, 2022

US private equity firm consortium makes leveraged buyout offer for Ramsay Health Care

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 25, 2023

The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that the transaction also includes a $150m revolving credit facility, putting the total package at $3.4bn – making it one of the largest private credit deals on record – and comes as direct lenders are pivoting to refinancing existing debt from tradionally funding leveraged buyouts.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Bain Capital Credit’s Private Credit Group invested in 30 businesses across 15 industries in H1 2023, supporting the refinancing, leveraged buyout, and add-on acquisition activity of both new and existing portfolio companies.

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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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Private Equity Wire

JULY 13, 2023

The fund will target investments, primarily through secondary market purchases or other secondary transactions (through both LP and GP-led transactions), in private equity funds that generally focus on leveraged buyout, growth, or restructuring transactions. Like this article?

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

The firm has ambitions to expand beyond it traditional leveraged buyout background and has already made moves into private credit, and the secondaries market. CVC, which has 25 offices around the world, was valued at about €15bn when it agreed to sell a minority stake to Blue Owl’s Dyal Capital unit in 2021. Like this article?

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC recently made headlines by raising €26bn for the largest buyout find ever and the firm has also expanded into the secondaries market through the acquisition of Glendower Capital and groin its credit business, which provides financing for leveraged buyouts, among other things.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC recently made headlines by raising €26bn for the largest buyout find ever and the firm has also expanded into the secondaries market through the acquisition of Glendower Capital and groin its credit business, which provides financing for leveraged buyouts, among other things.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, Klinsky was co-founder of the leveraged buyout group at Goldman Sachs, where he helped execute over $3 billion of pioneering transactions for Goldman and its clients.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 14, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital. Jennifer Grancio favorite books.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 23, 2023

The Guernsey-based tax exile and karaoke enthusiast has been one of the most visible faces in European private equity, whose career in the buyout industry has spanned some three decades. 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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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 12, 2022

Banks no longer retain a monopoly on financing blockbuster leveraged buyouts

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 23, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 25, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 20, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital. Then Daboll turned around his career—the same way he had done with the Bills’ Josh Allen.

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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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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital. LEI for the U.S.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

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. Perhaps so, but resentment among banks is bound to increase as Ares pushes into another lucrative domain of theirs — funding of leveraged buyouts.

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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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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.

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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

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. Precedent Transactions Precedent transactions analysis compares an acquisition opportunity to other companies that have recently been sold or acquired in the same industry.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I was on the team that did a leveraged buyout of AMF, the bowling alley company--so I''ve looked at lots of plans to upgrade in venue customer marketing. Given the time I spent a decade ago doing not only venture capital, but investing in private equity funds that buy retail companies, I find this data collection fascinating.

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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. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

It rose to prominence with leveraged buyouts, the kinds of transactions made famous by “Barbarians at the Gate” and other chronicles of 1980s finance. Blackstone, which began as a two-person shop in 1985 overseeing $400,000, has become a dominant force in the so-called alternative investments industry.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

This is making the deal easier to complete at a time when high interest rates and market volatility have made debt for leveraged buyouts scarcer and more expensive. The terms of Compass' debt allow for it to be taken over by a new owner without it being refinanced, one of the sources said.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

Chief Executive Officer Bruce Flatt is building on a busy 2022, when Brookfield was involved in leveraged buyouts of television-ratings firm Nielsen Holdings Plc and software provider CDK Global Inc. He’s looking for more, saying in May that Brookfield is exploring a number of take-privates across every aspect of its business.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 22, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 19, 2023

Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, he was co-founder of the Leverage Buyout Group of Goldman Sachs, where he did $3+ billion of transactions before joining Forstmann Little as a partner, where he oversaw $10+ billion in capital. David Byrne, Boy George and more pay tribute to one of the most unusual pop bands. (

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