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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Has the term “private equity firm” become an anachronism? Buyout deals still exist, of course. Just this week ...

Learning from the market's past to understand its present. On this day in economic and business history... The flow of moving water has been one of humanity's oldest sources of energy. However, water ...