The rust is coming off the gears of private equity's LBO machine. Leveraged buyouts accounted for 40% of US PE deals in 2008, but PE's bread-and-butter transaction type has given way to alternative ...

Leveraged buyouts, or LBOs, are a type of corporate takeover in which a nonoperating private equity company acquires a public company through debt financing. LBOs transform ailing companies by taking ...

While readily working with standard private equity firms focused on growth capital, we made the decision over a year ago to not work with those private investment firms that rely on high levels of ...

The multiple of leveraged-buyout debt to earnings has hit 5.8, its highest since the financial crash, according to LCD/S&P. A debt level of six times earnings has historically been regarded as ...

Learn everything you need to know about WHITEWOLF Publicly Listed Priv Eq ETF (LBO) and how it ranks compared to other funds. Research performance, expense ratio, holdings, and volatility to see if it ...

More evidence that the U.S. leveraged loan market continues to run hot: Private equity shops of late are completing high-profile LBO credits at leverage levels not seen since 2008. Specifically, the ...

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) in Weisfelner v. Fund 1 (In Re Lyondell Chemical Co.), 2014 WL 118036 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Jan. 14, 2014) recently ...

A massive, debt-fueled buyout of Medline Industries would be bad medicine for a health care sector stressed by COVID. The Wall Street Journal reported the other day that Northfield-based Medline is ...

With liquidity coursing through the leveraged finance market, financing costs are falling while debt multiples are rising. The former topic has been well documented by LCD and others. What follows is ...

PPD, an LBO'd contract research organization that provides drug development services, filed on Thursday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. However, the deal size ...

LBO France has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Dutscher group, a pan-European distributor of R&D laboratory consumables and equipment. The sellers are Five Arrows Principal Investments and ...