Elliott is also currently trying to engineer another leveraged buyout.
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All struggled under the debt load of a leveraged buyout.
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These include hedge funds, mutual funds, leveraged buyout firms, etc.
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Nielsen could be the next big leveraged buyout, sources tell CNBC.
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But many questioned whether such a large leveraged buyout was possible.
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They took it private in 1985 in a $1.6 billion leveraged buyout.
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Decades ago, it was among the most popular of leveraged-buyout plays.
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The StandardAero deal would be Carlyle's second major leveraged buyout this year.
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If completed, the deal would be the biggest leveraged buyout in history.
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Caesars became a symbol of the excesses of the leveraged buyout boom.
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The deal for Taylor Swift's masters, though, is not a leveraged buyout.
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The transaction would be the largest European leveraged buyout in four years.
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Middle market leveraged buyout deals rose to 128 in 2019 from 112.
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Still, a leveraged buyout of a department store is challenging in 2017.
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Leveraged buyout funds acquire companies using large amounts of borrowed money, or leverage.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Leveraged buyout lenders are in the firing line in 25.
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Crushed by debt, Beatrice was later sold off in a huge leveraged buyout.
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For those reasons, the company was an ideal target for a leveraged buyout.
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This intensely operational approach stands in contrast to the traditional retail leveraged-buyout model.
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Samson was acquired in a 2011 leveraged buyout by KKR & Co for $7.2 billion.
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The ¥2295trn acquisition of Toshiba Memory Corp in 2400 was Asia's largest leveraged buyout.
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In 1968, Kraft acquired a controlling stake in the company through a leveraged buyout.
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Arconic could announce a deal on a leveraged buyout by mid-December, sources tell CNBC.
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So if Tesla were private today, probably it wouldn't have happened through a leveraged buyout.
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Elizabeth Warren is proposing a bill that would kill much of the leveraged buyout industry.
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Hellman & Friedman had taken Getty Images private in 2008 in a $2.4 billion leveraged buyout.
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More problematic was the $6bn it put towards the $26bn leveraged buyout of Hilton Hotels.
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Descendants of Levi Strauss took the company private in a $22014 billion leveraged buyout in 1984.
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The most likely option for a sale, said the bankers, is a consortium leveraged buyout deal.
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Apollo and TPG created Caesars from the $31 billion leveraged buyout of Harrah's Entertainment in 2008.
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The private equity firm had taken Hilton private in a $26 billion leveraged buyout in 2007.
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The deal, worth around $3 billion, was the largest leveraged buyout in Turkey at the time.
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I didn't know what a leveraged buyout was, but it sounded more attractive than practicing law.
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This novel is about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco for $25 billion in the 1980s.
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At the time of Dell's leveraged buyout, Mr. Dell owned about 16 percent of the company.
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The current leveraged-buyout boom has been spurred by some of the cheapest financing in history.
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He considered taking SoftBank private in what would have been the largest leveraged buyout of all time.
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Musk's proposed leveraged buyout could be the largest in history, even discounting the CEO's 20 percent stake.
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Merlin had already taken out a £2.193 billion ($2.81 billion) loan as part of the leveraged buyout.
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Merlin had already taken out a £2.193 billion ($2.81 billion) loan as part of the leveraged buyout.
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It had a busted deal with a leveraged buyout that was not completed due to financing issues.
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Some of Refinitiv's existing leveraged buyout debt could be refinanced with investment-grade acquisition debt, sources said.
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When a company owner sells to an ESOP, the transaction is usually a kind of leveraged buyout.
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"I think [Jacobs] snapped," a source close to the board said of the highly improbably leveraged buyout.
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Funding could become scarcer, as general partners leading top leveraged buyout firms are weighing whether to do deals.
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The chain is one of many retailers struggling with a high debt load tied to a leveraged buyout.
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The biggest acquisition, Apollo Global Management's roughly $3.1 billion leveraged buyout of Claire's Stores Inc, restructured in 2016.
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During his time there, Mr. Bollenbach prevented Mr. Trump from taking over the chain through a leveraged buyout.
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In corporate news, Bloomberg News reported private equity company KKR formally approached Walgreens about a potential leveraged buyout.
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Over the years, the group, run by Stephen A. Schwarzman, has expanded far beyond its leveraged-buyout roots.
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Tyler Wallace, portfolio manager at Fair Oaks Capital admitted the restricted industries aren't traditionally European leveraged buyout targets.
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J. Crew has around $1.7 billion in debt, much of it brought on by a 2011 leveraged buyout.
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IHeart was taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout in 2008.
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Notably, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, one of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout industry, does not engage in the practice.
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This is an Oaktree Capital-backed leveraged buyout, created when Oaktree merged Pierre Foods and Advance Brands in 2010.
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Refinitiv took on $13.5 billion in debt as part of its leveraged buyout, according to Moody's Investors Service Inc.
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Proceeds from the bridge refinance debt of the same size that backed the leveraged buyout of Refinitiv last year.
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In the broader market, the average ratio of all leveraged buyout debt to earnings now stands at 5.9 times.
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In 2017, Greenhill and Bok helped engineer a partial leveraged buyout when they injected $20 million into the firm.
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A leveraged buyout of Gigamon would mark the first takeover of a public company to be led by Elliott.
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In August, Brookfield agreed a A$21bn multi-tranche loan supporting its leveraged buyout of Australian hospital operator Healthscope.
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Leverage higher than 6.0 times was seen on 59.8% of leveraged buyout deals in 2014, just short of a pre-crisis high of 61.5% but tighter implementation of the guidelines has cut this to a four-year low of 47.4% of leveraged buyout deals this year, according to Thomson Reuters LPC data.
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Still, the company's outstanding $271 billion debt due to a leveraged buyout a decade ago might be hard to rectify.
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Much of that debt stems from a $1.1 billion leveraged buyout by private equity firm Apax Partners LLP in 2013.
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The deal, announced ten months after a Blackstone-led consortium completed a leveraged buyout of Refinitiv from Thomson Reuters TRI.
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Much of that debt stems from a $213 billion leveraged buyout by private equity firm Apax Partners LLP in 2013.
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N) in the biggest leveraged buyout (LBO) of the year thus far, defying a challenging financing market for such deals.
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Then in 1981, a Trump-like character named John P. Brogan used a leveraged buyout plot to buy the plant.
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Another big confidence booster was the sale of a previously postponed leveraged buyout financing for Dutch vehicle-leasing company LeasePlan.
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The owners formed Caesars through a $30 billion leveraged buyout of Harrah's in 2008, just before a U.S. economic downturn.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance, a Dow component, is exploring going private in what could be the largest leveraged buyout in history.
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But Dell owned about three-quarters of his company at the time of the leveraged buyout, making its funding easier.
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One was in October 1989, when the failure of a leveraged buyout of United Airlines devastated the junk bond market.
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The toy retailer filed for bankruptcy in September, weighed down by $4.9 billion in debt leftover from its leveraged buyout.
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She works in New York for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the leveraged-buyout firm, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions.
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Breakingviews It's going to take a lot of tape and scissors to piece together a leveraged buyout of Staples Inc.
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The leveraged corporate deal, like CentruyLink and Broadcom, may appeal to a wider group of investors than a traditional leveraged buyout.
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Goldman Sachs is doing something the bank hasn't done since before the global financial crisis: it's raising a leveraged buyout fund.
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A large portion of Gymboree's current debt was taken on during a $1.8 billion leveraged buyout by Bain Capital in 2010.
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Wilder is known for shaping up Texas utility TXU and selling the company in the largest-ever leveraged buyout in 2007.
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In 2000, the San Diego-based company went private in a leveraged buyout by Leonard Green Partners and Texas Pacific Group.
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A deal of that size would dwarf the previous largest leveraged buyout, TXU, which was valued at $32.11 billion, excluding debt.
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American companies are borrowing money to buy their own shares in what is tantamount to a huge, slow-motion leveraged buyout.
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Silver Lake helped bankroll Dell CEO Michael Dell in taking the company private in 2013 in a $24.9 billion leveraged buyout.
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Avaya's debt pile of $3.2 billion and its challenging business outlook have made a leveraged buyout difficult for many private equity firms.
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But most of the layoffs at Macquarie, which were announced internally earlier this month, targeted industry coverage rather than leveraged buyout bankers.
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Institutional loans dropped to a three-year low of $58.8 billion, and investment grade and leveraged buyout funding slid 7.53 percent apiece.
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J Crew's sales have been on the decline and it carries close to $2 billion in debt from a 2011 leveraged buyout.
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The $45 billion leveraged buyout of the TXU Corporation, now called Energy Future Holdings, ran into trouble soon after its 2007 completion.
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Vice Chancellor Laster also asserted that because the pricing was based on a leveraged buyout model, it was not a market price.
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In July 2007, with the merger market still a bit bubbly, the more than $20 billion leveraged buyout of Lyondell was announced.
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Symantec also held talks last year with private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC about a leveraged buyout, Reuters reported at the time.
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Within the past year, sources confirmed to CNBC that it was nearing a deal on a leveraged buyout for $2112 billion Arconic.
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It opened with historically low price-earnings ratios, which allowed canny leveraged buyout investors to snap up solid companies at bargain prices.
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Private equity firm Energy Capital Partners, which led a $875 million leveraged buyout of NESCO in 2014, would retain a minority stake.
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That would make it twice as large as the previous largest leveraged buyout, TXU, which was valued at $44.37 billion, including debt.
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In the 20183s, the first generation of leveraged buyout kings — an industry now known as private equity — identified problems with American corporations.
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It began as the most ambitious leveraged buyout ever attempted and resulted in a $1093 billion victory by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company.
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Station Casinos filed for bankruptcy in 2009, under the burden of debt from the leveraged buyout and a struggling Las Vegas economy.
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Bloomberg reports that if Musk managed to scrape together the cash to go private, it would be the largest leveraged buyout in history.
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Five years after its leveraged buyout, Dell is reemerging as a simplified player in computer equipment and software, including the internet of things.
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Leveraged buyout firms did a paltry 116 deals globally in January, according to data from Dealogic, which tracks and analyzes mergers and acquisitions.
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Over the next two weeks, four private equity firms indicated they were inclined to discuss a leveraged buyout or investment in Whole Foods.
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After 14 years, it was taken private by the Haas family, the descendants of founder Levi Strauss, in a $1.6 billion leveraged buyout.
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After 503 years, it was taken private by the Haas family, the descendants of founder Levi Strauss, in a $1.6 billion leveraged buyout.
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In a typical leveraged buyout, private equity firms juice up returns by loading up acquisitions with debt, which is often provided by banks.
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In September 1985, stockholders approved a leveraged buyout by a group of the company's managers and the New York investment firm Clayton & Dubilier.
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But Dun & Bradstreet's $5.4 billion leveraged buyout, announced on Thursday, is a reminder of what it usually takes: a mature, mediocre, profitable firm.
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Employees' ability to provide for their families was eroded following the 2008 leveraged buyout of Caesars and protracted bankruptcy proceedings, the union said.
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Guitar Center has itself struggled since a 6003 leveraged buyout by Bain Capital left it saddled with debt heading into the financial crisis.
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The company is already loaded with debt, meaning that to generate a solid return on any leveraged buyout will require some serious housekeeping.
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Expect a rare 11-digit leveraged buyout to be unveiled in Asia in 2020 – even as fears grow elsewhere about private-equity financing.
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Raymond James believes there is a leveraged buyout scenario for Dave & Buster's, saying a takeout valuation in the mid-$13s could be supported.
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Still, Dell dealt with a variety of obstacles, including counterbidders and deducing a fair price for shareholders, when he attempted the leveraged buyout.
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His 1985 leveraged buyout of the well-known cosmetics company continues to be a thorn in his side and a major investing mistake.
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If a deal does come to fruition, it could be the largest leveraged buyout since the big buyout boom that preceded the financial crisis.
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However, leveraged buyout related issuance has increased to US$227.38bn in the first six months from US$242bn in the same period of 226.27.
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Taken private in a highly leveraged buyout by Bain 2007, Edcon has struggled to grow at a fast enough rate to pay down debt.
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The New York-based retailer has been private since 2011 when TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners completed a leveraged buyout for $3 billion.
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Merlin was on the road last week with £635m of fixed-rate dollar and euro 8NC3 senior notes that also back its leveraged buyout.
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The deal is Blackstone's first from a new fund designed to hold companies for at least a decade, longer than a typical leveraged buyout.
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Walgreens shares jumped 5.08% on a report saying private equity firm KKR has formally approached the drug store operator about a potential leveraged buyout.
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Warren and other industry skeptics in particular have seized on the bankruptcy of Toys R Us after a leveraged buyout by private equity firms.
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Apollo and TPG formed Caesars through the $30 billion leveraged buyout of Harrah's Entertainment in 2008, just before the U.S economy tipped into recession.
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Apollo and TPG gained control of the casino empire in 2008 in a $30 billion leveraged buyout for Harrah's Entertainment, which they then renamed.
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The deal would be the biggest leveraged buyout of all time, beating the $45 billion record set by Texas power utility Energy Future Holdings.
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Energy Future is what remains of TXU, which was the subject of a $44 billion leveraged buyout at the height of the debt boom.
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In the 1990s, the iconic Western headgear was acquired by a conglomerate held by an all-American leveraged-buyout firm based in New York.
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The company's leveraged buyout saddled it with a heavy debt load — roughly $8.3 billion as of March 31 — making determining a valuation somewhat tricky.
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If Tesla were to go private at $221.5 per share, it would be worth $221.2 billion, making it the largest leveraged buyout in history.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - It's going to take a lot of tape and scissors to piece together a leveraged buyout of Staples that works.
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Back when it was known as TXU, the company became the apex of leveraged-buyout excess and Mr. Buffett got swept up in it.
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Neiman Marcus, which was saddled with debt from a $6 billion leveraged buyout in 2013, canceled in January its plans for an initial public offering.
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The company was created from the record $45 billion leveraged buyout of TXU Corp in 2007, a deal led by KKR & Co and TPG Capital.
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Caesars is controlled by Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital, which created the company from the $31 billion leveraged buyout of Harrah's Entertainment in 2008.
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A recent middle market leveraged buyout (LBO) included a provision enabling a borrower to add-back losses related to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Though it started 32 years ago as a merger advisory shop, Blackstone raised its first leveraged buyout fund soon after the October 1987 market crash.
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Recent performance for distressed debt funds has lagged another favoured debt play - lending money to help finance mergers and acquisitions via leveraged buyout funds (LBFs).
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Energy Future was created from the record $45 billion leveraged buyout of TXU Corp in 2007, a deal led by KKR & Co and TPG Capital.
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A leveraged buyout, as CNBC's Leslie Picker points out, seems infeasible since Tesla does not generate the cash flow necessary to pay out the debt.
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Buyout loans have hit US$1.023bn, the third-largest amount on record, and the biggest year since 21.02 when leveraged buyout lending tallied US$2100bn.
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Banks, which faced hundreds of millions of dollars of potential losses on unsold debt, saw the syndication of other leveraged buyout financings struggle as well.
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Energy Future, once known as TXU, was taken private in 2007 for $45 billion in what was the biggest leveraged buyout ever at the time.
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Evans bought his first energy company in a $1.2 million leveraged buyout in 1985 and sold it to Cimarex Energy 20 years later for $2.2 billion.
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The leveraged buyout market reduced from $537 billion in 2016 to $495 billion in 2017, according to Pitchbook, a private equity and venture capital research firm.
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Claire's, which was taken private in 2007 by Apollo in a leveraged buyout valued at about $3.1 billion, missed a $77 million interest payment last week.
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To help fund it, Apollo and its co-investors agreed to provide $4.5 billion for the deal, a big equity check by leveraged buyout industry standards.
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In 1992, Macy's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after being weighed down by debt from the leveraged buyout that took it private and acquisition costs.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc gained 6.4% after Bloomberg reported KKR & Co had formally approached the drugstore giant for what could be the biggest-ever leveraged buyout.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc jumped 6.3% after Bloomberg reported KKR & Co had formally approached the drugstore giant for what could be the biggest-ever leveraged buyout.
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The average U.S. leveraged buyout piled debt equivalent to almost seven times EBITDA in 2018, only marginally below the record in 2007, according to Refinitiv data.
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Earlier this month enterprise software company Mediware sealed a US$320m covenant-lite term loan that backs its leveraged buyout by private equity firm TPG Capital.
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With a bankruptcy filing on Wednesday, the sporting goods retailer Sports Authority can add itself to the pile of losers from the precrisis leveraged buyout boom.
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Burdened with debt from a leveraged buyout in 2005, the toy giant struggled to adjust quickly enough to fast-changing consumer tastes and e-commerce encroachment.
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We aren't really meant to care who prevails and who is outwitted in their leveraged buyout schemes; the play's purpose is simply to expose the system.
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Lazard represented RJR Nabisco when it was acquired in 1989 by the private equity firm KKR for $25 billion — the largest leveraged buyout to that point.
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A number of Wall Street banks contacted by CNBC were not aware of any deal and had not committed to funding a leveraged buyout of Tesla.
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Much of the retailer's debt stems from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's leveraged buyout of David's Bridal in 2012, a deal that was valued at about $1.05 billion.
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LONDON, June 2300 (LPC) - Underwriting banks have taken a hit on two European leveraged buyout loans as investors take an unforgiving approach to more challenging credits.
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And there have been just three $40-billion-plus deals involving private buyers: Dell-EMC, Heinz-Kraft and the disastrous leveraged buyout of the American utility TXU.
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A leveraged buyout of Bloomberg would likely be the largest in history, topping the $32 billion acquisition of TXU led by KKR & Co. and TPG in 2007.
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Several private equity firms have recently considered an acquisition of Citrix but decided that a leveraged buyout would not be easily achieved or profitable, the people said.
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Walmart's cash reserves are less than $10 billion, making it a relatively expensive pursuit likely needing a leveraged buyout, and the market isn't new to such deals.
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After 14 years as a public company, it was taken private by the Haas family, the descendants of founder Levi Strauss, in a $1.6 billion leveraged buyout.
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A year after the leveraged buyout, Uniroyal merged with Goodrich to form the Uniroyal-Goodrich Tire Company, which was eventually subsumed by the French tire manufacturer Michelin.
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But leveraged buyout (LBO) techniques are now "commoditized," and the industry is extremely saturated: PE backs 23% of America's midsized companies, and 11% of its large companies.
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International drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance is exploring going private in what could mark the largest leveraged buyout in history, people familiar with the situation told CNBC.
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Bain, along with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Vornado Realty Trust, invested $1.3 billion in the $6.6 billion leveraged buyout in 2005 that took Toys R Us private.
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In 21.3, Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the Carlyle Group, a leveraged-buyout shop that has grown into one of the largest private equity firms in the world.
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The Israeli company sold a stake to Novalpina, a British private equity firm, in a leveraged buyout deal last year that valued it at nearly $1 billion.
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And executives are both pushed (by "activist" hedge funds and leveraged buyout shops) and pulled (by compensation packages pegged to stock returns) to cater to shareholders' needs.
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He saw opportunity there and when the management of Viacom was trying to do their own leveraged buyout to take it over, he decided to fight them.
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Nordstrom The retail chain's founding family said that it wouldn't pursue a leveraged buyout company of the department store operator until at least after the holiday season.
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The emergence of Sempra could spell the end of Mr. Buffett's $9 billion offer for what was once TXU, the subject of a $45 billion leveraged buyout.
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CNBC contacted a number of Wall Street banks and none of them was aware of any deal or had committed to funding a leveraged buyout of Tesla.
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It has a number of big-name board members including billionaire investor Wilbur Ross and executive chairman John Wilder, who engineered the giant leveraged buyout of TXU.
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In "Brightness Falls," Russell became caught up in the leveraged buyout frenzy of the nineteen-eighties and recklessly attempted to buy the publishing company where he worked.
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The so-called leveraged buyout firms borrow money to take over companies and then saddle them with the debt, sometimes resulting in the takeover targets going bust.
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KKR and Bain Capital, which took over Toys 'R' Us along with Vornado Realty Trust in a 22017 leveraged buyout, have each committed $25 million to the fund.
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Dell's leveraged buyout largely marked the final page in the company's storied history as a PC provider, going back to the old "dude, you're getting a Dell" commercials.
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"With any leveraged buyout you don't want to waste investors' time if the deal isn't sure to happen but Thomson Reuters is very well advanced," the banker added.
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The company's owners — the private equity firms Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the real estate investor Vornado — bought the company in 2005 in a leveraged buyout.
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CNBC also contacted a number of Wall Street banks and none of them was aware of any transaction or had committed to funding a leveraged buyout of Tesla.
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Spiegel, whose fund is short Tesla by holding puts that expire in January 2020, said it was "unfathomable to me" that anyone would finance a Tesla leveraged buyout.
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Besides providing funding for early cable and wireless deals, Mr. Flannery's team was involved in G.E.'s funding the 1987 leveraged buyout of the magazine publisher Edgell Communications.
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Those with high leverage and significant leveraged buyout activity, such as technology, healthcare and aerospace and defense, have the highest percentage of companies worse off, according to Moody's.
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The company first listed its shares in the 22010s, but was taken private in 20183 through a leveraged buyout led by descendants of Levi Strauss, the Haas family.
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IHeartMedia has struggled with debt that was taken on to finance a $2200 billion leveraged buyout, or LBO, in 21 of what was then Clear Channel Communications Inc.
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The San Francisco-based company last filed for bankruptcy in June 2017, struggling to bear the burden of more than $1 billion of debt from its 2010 leveraged buyout.
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The US$4.2bn term loan B, which was arranged in 2015 to back PetSmart's leveraged buyout, fell to 78.25-78.75 from 79.5-80 after earnings were released last week.
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Also still to come is a roughly US$500m secured bond for Veritas - the final piece of a hung leveraged buyout financing for Carlyle's acquisition of the software company.
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Refinitiv had $12.2 billion in debt as of the end of December, as a result of its leveraged buyout by Blackstone, which LSE would assume under the proposed deal.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A leveraged buyout of electric carmaker Tesla could be an ominous sign of market exuberance, but investors may need more justification to run for the exits.
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Refinitiv had $12.2 billion in debt as of the end of December as a result of its leveraged buyout by Blackstone, which LSE would assume under the proposed deal.
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Unlike its previous offers to companies, where Elliott threatened to buy a business it was agitating against, this time the attempted leveraged buyout was not a target of Elliott.
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The 22023-year-old company had its first initial public offering in 23.3 and traded until 22013, when the founder's descendants took the company private in a leveraged buyout.
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The French private equity fund holds an 88.6 percent stake in Kaufman & Broad, with an investment dating back to a 2007 leveraged buyout, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
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Refinitiv had $22 billion in debt as of the end of December, as a result of its leveraged buyout by Blackstone, which LSE would assume under the proposed deal.
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Leveraged buyout activity and leveraged corporate acquisition activity has fallen dramatically as well as refinancing volume, potentially leaving a big hole in banks first quarter earnings and budget targets.
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Walgreens has been weighing whether to take the company private in what would be the largest leveraged buyout in history, people familiar with the situation told CNBC last week.
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The deal, the largest-ever leveraged buyout, essentially involved the backers Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs taking a huge chance on the price of natural gas.
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J.Crew became burdened by heavy debt load of about $2 billion, which escalated in the wake of a leveraged buyout in 2011 by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners.
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While banks have maintained pricing for revolvers on a number of repricings, there has been an increase in pricing on revolvers that form part of new leveraged buyout loans.
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I read that Bill Simon had done a leveraged buyout in the early 1980s where he bought Gibson Greeting Cards and made $80 million on a $1 million investment.
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Following a leveraged buyout in 2012 by private-equity firms Blum Capital and Golden Gate, Payless still struggled with a heavy debt load of $847 million amid poor sales.
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However, its hope for a turnaround — in the form of a joint $6.6 billion leveraged buyout by Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and Vornado Realty Trust —quickly went south.
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The acquisition would help to open a new chapter for Energy Future, which in its previous life as TXU was the subject of the biggest leveraged buyout on record.
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Buyer: KKRTarget: WalgreensThe upshot: Bloomberg reported that KKR was seriously considering a take-private that could have been the largest leveraged buyout in history, at $70 billion, for Walgreens.
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It showed that private equity has little reason to fear the kind of dramatic overhaul that Warren and her allies have proposed to crack down on leveraged buyout firms.
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The company first listed its shares in the 1970s, but was taken private in 1985 through a leveraged buyout led by descendants of Strauss, known as the Haas family.
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Some of his past deals include the $11.3 billion leveraged buyout of U.S. software company SunGard Data Systems, and the purchase of Celanese, a German chemical company, for $3.8 billion.
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Another way to take Tesla off the public stock exchange would be to execute a "leveraged buyout," according to Ann Lipton, an associate professor of corporate law at Tulane University.
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One was the IPO of security company ADT, which had been taken private in early 22.3 in a $213 billion leveraged buyout by the private equity group Apollo Global Management.
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Undoing the leveraged buyout of Texas utility TXU, a botched $45 billion deal that's now nearly a decade old, keeps paying out the advisors that assembled the massive, failed transaction.
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Much of Neiman Marcus's debt load stems from its $6 billion leveraged buyout in 2013, when Ares and Canadian public pension fund CPPIB acquired it from other private equity firms.
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The holding brings together a San Francisco-based activist investor with the legendary leveraged buyout shop founded and still run by Henry Kravis and his cousin George Roberts in 1976.
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Creditors claim that Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital Management LP, which led a 2008 leveraged buyout of Caesars, created affiliates to put choice properties out of reach of creditors.
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O) and children choosing electronic gadgets over toys, Toys 'R' Us has struggled to service debt from a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout by private equity firms KKR & Co LP (KKR.
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A leveraged buyout of the chain by a private equity firm led to an aggressive store-opening plan that vacuumed up cash and sent the stock company's stock price plummeting.
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Some US$250bn of cash would be the largest leveraged buyout financing to date and will require every pool of capital, from bonds to loans in US dollars and euros.
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Under Mr. Smith's management, Vista established a remarkable track record by never losing money on a leveraged buyout, and regularly returning investors 30 percent or more on an annualized basis.
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Later in his career, Mr. Harper was chief executive of RJR Nabisco, the food and tobacco company in which Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a leveraged buyout firm, had a large stake.
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The volume of US leveraged buyout loans completed in 26.21 so far stood at US$25.03bn on September 4, with US$18bn of loans in the pipeline, the data shows.
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Caesars was created from the $31 billion leveraged buyout of Harrah's Entertainment in 2006, a deal led by TPG Capital Management and Apollo Global Management, which continue to control Caesars.
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Breakingviews Chip makers like Freescale Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductors took a high-profile role in the leveraged-buyout binge that preceded the financial crisis — and the distress that followed it.
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By the early 2000s, Toys "R" Us's business model was under pressure, and the company was purchased by a group of private equity investors in a leveraged buyout in 2005.
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But the company filed for bankruptcy last year, burdened by $2148 billion in debt left over from a leveraged buyout a decade ago, on the eve of the 255 recession.
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IHeartMedia recently emerged from bankruptcyIn 2018, iHeartMedia filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a leveraged buyout in 2008 left it with over $20 billion in debt for the next decade.
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Other recent leveraged buyout loans have paid under 200bp, including Calsonic Kansei's ¥2897trn seven-year loan backing its LBO of Italian high-tech car parts maker Magneti Marelli last year.
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" ■ 30D: An L.B.O. stands for leveraged buyout, and, according to Investopedia, is "the acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money to meet the cost of acquisition.
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Here are the current top 22006 largest leveraged buyouts of all time: The largest leveraged buyout in history was valued at $22007 billion, when TXU Energy turned private in 19.63.
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"The theory of a leveraged buyout is you take a company with a lot of cash and you use that to pay down the debt, but that's not Tesla," she says.
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The acquisition of Genesee & Wyoming would be the latest big leveraged buyout by Brookfield, which agreed last year to buy Johnson Controls International Plc's power solutions business for about $13 billion.
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It has been a difficult few months for the U.S. leveraged buyout sector, and Carlyle is the latest private equity firm to show its earnings have suffered in a tough environment.
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Much of Neiman Marcus' debt load stems from its $6 billion leveraged buyout in 2013, when its current owners, Ares Management LP and CPPIB, acquired it from other private equity firms.
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Meanwhile, the company became burdened by heavy debt load of about $2 billion, which ballooned in the wake of a leveraged buyout in 2011 by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners.
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The ruling stems from the tangled litigation following real estate mogul Sam Zell's leveraged buyout of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times publisher, which creditors blame for its 2008 bankruptcy.
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New leveraged buyout financings can be wrapped up in a couple of weeks, dividend recapitalisations can be placed in a week, and repricings and refinancings sold in a matter of days.
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Though T. Rowe publicly declared that it was opposed to the leveraged buyout, it actually — and mistakenly, because of the complexities of modern shareholder systems — voted in favor of the transaction.
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Cramer argued that Sports Authority's demise, which began with a leveraged buyout and ended with a botched restructuring program and crushing debt, cast a visible shadow on the sports retail industry.
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An erroneous share count in the leveraged buyout of Tibco Software in 2014 by its financial advisor, Goldman Sachs, led to a Tibco shareholder lawsuit that was settled earlier this year.
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In recent months, Walgreens has held preliminary discussions with some of the world's largest private equity firms about putting together what would be the biggest ever leveraged buyout, the sources said.
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The deal would combine two of the largest U.S. providers of information technology management software and would be the biggest leveraged buyout since Dell's $24.4 billion take-private transaction in 2013.
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Drug store chain operator Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc , for example, got a skeptical response from private equity firms for its potential $70 billion-plus leveraged buyout, Reuters reported earlier this month.
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The Times About 20.7806 staff and 20 partners are leaving KPMG in a 200 million pounds leveraged buyout of its pension consulting business that the company will announce on Monday. bit.
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Nielsen has received some interest from private equity firms for a new leveraged buyout of the entire company, according to people familiar with the approaches who requested anonymity to discuss them.
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In 443, Energy Future — then known as TXU — sold itself to a group of private equity firms for a record-setting $45 billion, at the height of the leveraged buyout boom.
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A modestly leveraged buyout of the department store chain – recently famous for dropping first daughter Ivanka Trump's clothing line – looks doable with members of the eponymous family rolling over their stakes.
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Total sponsored volume was up 17% from the first quarter, sponsored new money issuance also improved by 17% for the same period and leveraged buyout volume jumped 41% quarter over quarter.
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Toys R Us demonstrated the risks last week when it announced it is shutting down its U.S. business — a little over a decade after being taken private in a leveraged buyout.
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They included: private equity funds that sponsor the leveraged buyout of companies, mezzanine funds that lend to companies, with some specializing in companies in financial distress, and specialized real estate funds.
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Nielsen has received some interest from private equity firms for a new leveraged buyout of the entire company, according to people familiar with the approaches who requested anonymity to discuss them.
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At the time, it was dealing with more than $1 billion in debt left over from a leveraged buyout by Bain Capital Partners in 2010, and it operated more than 1,280 stores.
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An erroneous share count in the leveraged buyout of Tibco Software in 2014 by its financial advisor, Goldman Sachs Group, led to a Tibco shareholder lawsuit that was settled earlier this year.
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Jefferies analyst Martin Deboo said the most likely exit options were a leveraged buyout or a sale to L'Oreal, if the French cosmetics firm followed Nestle in making a strategic U-turn.
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TO, a Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, is discussing alternatives to a leveraged buyout that include divesting a minority stake to a private equity firm, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Digital Colony and EQT in May agreed to pay US$275 for each Zayo share and assume the company's US$2245bn of net debt, valuing the leveraged buyout (LBO) at US$218bn.
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Among the credits waiting in the wings is the financing to back the biggest leveraged buyout of 2015, Carlyle Group's purchase of data storage unit Veritas from antivirus software maker Symantec Corp.
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Private equity firm Carlyle Group bought HCR ManorCare in a 2007 leveraged buyout for $6.3 billion and sold the properties to HCP Inc, a large healthcare REIT for $6.1 billion in 2010.
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"This may curtail issuance of corporate debt to buy back stock, and it may limit some LBO [Leveraged Buyout] activity, which creates high levels of debt," said Peter Tchir of Academy Securities.
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This year suspension systems provider Rough Country and medical apparel maker Strategic Partners repriced term loans to 375bp over Libor and Zest Dental priced its leveraged buyout loan at 350bp over Libor.
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But the other is the $6.6 billion in debt that Vornado, Bain Capital and KKR laid on Toys R Us after a leveraged buyout in 2005, some $5.2 billion of which remains.
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I'll be explaining how the changes began in 2005, when two private-equity firms, KKR and Bain, and a real-estate investment trust, Vornado, acquired Toys R Us in a leveraged buyout.
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Now the head of energy investment firm Bluescape Energy Partners, Wilder made his name by turning around Texas power company TXU before selling it in the largest ever leveraged buyout in 2007.
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UBS reportedly fired James Boland, who had led its leveraged-finance group in the Americas, for not telling his bosses that his team had altered the terms of a leveraged buyout bond.
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It was Mr. Cohen — then the head of Shearson Lehman Hutton — who, along with his colleague Tom Hill, provided the financial backing for F. Ross Johnson's attempted leveraged buyout of the company.
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But the fact that a leveraged buyout of the company was even considered illustrates the extent to which SoftBank's struggles on the global market have rattled both the company's leaders and investors.
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Neiman Marcus has been struggling with a nearly $5 billion debt load, due mainly to its 2013 leveraged buyout by Ares and Canadian public pension fund CPPIB from other private equity firms.
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Nielsen is heavily indebted, the legacy of a leveraged buyout in 2006 by six private equity firms; Carlyle Group, Blackstone Group, KKR & Co, Thomas H. Lee Partners, AlpInvest Partners and Hellman & Friedman.
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NEW YORK (LPC) - US climate control products manufacturer Airxcel's leveraged buyout by private equity firm L Catterton will be backed by US$4.53m in loans, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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Davis found that the operating unit was insolvent as far back as 2008, soon after the close of the $31 billion leveraged buyout of the Harrah's Entertainment casino company by TPG and Apollo.
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The last time we saw such a huge exploration to acquire a company was circa 2013, when Dell initiated a leveraged buyout to take the company private in a deal worth $24.4 billion.
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Real estate billionaire Sam Zell and other former officers and directors of Tribune have reached a $200 million settlement resolving allegations of fraudulent transactions related to the media company's disastrous 2007 leveraged buyout.
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KKR gained widespread recognition early on through its $25 billion leveraged buyout of tobacco and food conglomerate RJR Nabisco in 1988, a battle that was immortalized in the bestseller 'Barbarians at the Gate.
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"We are happy to see the increase in M&A and leveraged buyout transactions that create fresh net loan supply as we face excessive liquidity," said a third Taiwan-based senior loan banker.
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Sectors with high leverage and with significant leveraged buyout (LBO) activity such as technology, healthcare and aerospace and defense are expected to be hardest hit, along with gaming and business and consumer services.
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Check out the companies making headlines midday: Walgreens Boots Alliance — Walgreens shares jumped more than 5% after a report from Bloomberg said KKR approached the pharmacy and food chain for a leveraged buyout.
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Jacobs is attempting to put together the largest leveraged buyout of all time, three times as large as the $45 billion buyout of Texas power utility Energy Future Holdings, which ended in bankruptcy.
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The private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital, as well as the real estate firm Vornado Realty Trust, purchased the company in a leveraged buyout for about $6 billion in 2005.
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Mr. Musk has made clear that he is not envisioning a traditional leveraged buyout, in which buyers borrow money to take a company private and then saddle the company with the new debt.
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Mr. Holmes, who recently played the victim of a leveraged buyout in Mr. Hughes's production of Ayad Akhtar's "Junk," now gets revenge as the alpha moneybags gleefully fiddling with someone else's balance sheet.
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At that time, the first "leveraged-buyout firms," as private equity was then called, were springing up in New York and Boston, led by groups such as Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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Apollo and TPG, which formed Caesars in 2008 through a $30 billion leveraged buyout of Harrah's just before a U.S. economic downturn, will relinquish their stake in Caesars as part of the agreement.
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In 2013, the group sold it to Ares Management L.P., another private equity firm, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in a $6 billion leveraged buyout that saddled the company with debt.
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The acquisition offer comes 15 months after Avaya emerged from bankruptcy protection, the legacy of a previous leveraged buyout, its $8.3 billion sale to private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake in 2007.
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Known for aggressively pursuing job cuts and office closures with debt-fueled deals, leveraged buyout firms are now banking on businesses that are still expanding but have fallen out of favor with Wall Street.
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The company dipped into the private equity market last summer and took a substantial investment from Accel-KKR, which several reports pegged as a nine-figure deal, and PitchBook characterized as a leveraged buyout.
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Musk's $420 per share deal would also top the 1988 $30 billion leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, now seen by many as the high-water mark of excess on Wall Street during that decade.
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A string of leveraged buyout deals have stalled in recent weeks as the financing from banks dried up, in one of the biggest challenges for the private equity industry since the 240 financial crisis.
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The preference for buybacks over dividends goes along with venture-capital investors capturing most of the growth of new companies and leveraged-buyout firms extracting much of the cash flow of previously stable companies.
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Investors in a privatization could include sovereign wealth funds, wealthy individuals and private equity funds, though the latter may be unlikely given Tesla's business model isn't a good fit for standard leveraged buyout investment.
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A string of leveraged buyout deals have stalled in recent weeks as the financing from banks dried up, in one of the biggest challenges for the private equity industry since the 2008 financial crisis.
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The deliberations come less than two yeas after Avaya emerged from bankruptcy protection, the legacy of a previous leveraged buyout, its $8.3 billion sale to private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake in 2007.
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The family-controlled business seeks a total valuation in excess of $3 billion; the public offering would return Levi to the public markets more than three decades after it went private in a leveraged buyout.
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Overdue deals include a US$264m loan supporting the leveraged buyout (LBO) by Ares for winery Cooper's Hawk and a US$23m transaction for font software firm Monotype Imaging, which is being acquired by HGGC.
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Telecommunications equipment and software vendor Avaya is considering a leveraged buyout offer from a private-equity firm that values it at more than $503 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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NEW YORK (LPC) - Private equity firm KKR & Co's US$9.9bn leveraged buyout (LBO) of physician service provider Envision Healthcare has helped boost private equity deal volumes to levels not seen since before the credit crisis.
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Refinitiv, the parent company of LPC, was created last year when a Blackstone-led consortium bought a 2100.15% stake in Thomson Reuters' Financial and Risk business in the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis.
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Taken private in a highly leveraged buyout by Bain Capital in 2007, the country's biggest clothing retailer said about 73 percent of holders of a 2018 bond denominated in dollars and euros supported the plan.
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During those meetings, executives pointed to Dell's record of paying down debt from its leveraged buyout, as well as explaining the logic of the deal and the combined company's ability to cover the debt payments.
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Large leveraged buyout financing in the second half included the biggest one since the financial crisis, supporting Blackstone's 55percent purchase of the Financial & Risk unit of Thomson Reuters that includes LPC and was renamed Refinitiv.
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The ruling will have an immediate effect on the long-running litigation stemming from the leveraged buyout of the Tribune media company in 2007, a deal that was led by real estate mogul Sam Zell.
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The latest leveraged buyout boom was different than the one that preceded the financial crisis, in that high valuations are fuelled by optimism over global growth and U.S. tax reform, rather than debt, Melwani added.
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It was purchased in 0003 by a private equity company, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in a $1.05 billion leveraged buyout, making it one of many retailers that have struggled with their debt loads after being acquired.
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Toys "R" Us filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September hoping to restructure some $5 billion in debt, much of which stemmed from a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout by private equity firms in 2005.
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Toys "R" Us problems date to 2005, when the private equity firms Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the real estate firm Vornado Realty Trust acquired the company in a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout.
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The son of a former director for bank supervision for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Mr. Flannery worked with a group that assessed risks in providing financing for the booming arena of leveraged buyout deals.
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Some of them even had to fork out hundreds of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits accusing them of conspiring to drive down acquisition prices during the leveraged buyout boom leading up to the crisis.
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ILL-TIMED ACQUISITION Debt troubles for Peabody date to its $5.1 billion leveraged buyout of Macarthur Coal in 2011, just when prices peaked for the metallurgical coal that the Australian company supplies to Asian steel mills.
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Three private-equity firms bought Toys "R" Us in 2005 in a leveraged buyout, adding substantially to its borrowings; it pays around $400m a year in interest costs, even as it tries to compete with Amazon.
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Taken private in a highly leveraged buyout by Bain Capital in 2007, the country's biggest clothing retailer said close to 80 percent of holders of a 2018 bond denominated in dollars and euros supported the plan.
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All of this has been exacerbated by a big problem outside of Toys "R" Us' core business: Billions of dollars in debt resulting from its 2005 leveraged buyout by Bain Capital, KKR and Vornado Realty Trust.
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It is Apollo's latest bet on the brick-and-mortar grocery sector, even after its last acquisition in the space, its $1.4 billion leveraged buyout of Fresh Market Inc in 2003, has soured amid increasing competition.
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It was in 255 that Matteo Canonaco, a cofounder of Canson Capital Partners who socialized with Craig, learned of this and thought Refinitiv would be a good candidate for a leveraged buyout, according to this person.
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The company — previously known as TXU — was acquired in 2007 for $45 billion in the largest leveraged buyout on record, at the heady peak of the private equity boom in the years before the financial crisis.
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Plus Levi's isn't only a fashion trailblazer, it has also completed one of the largest-ever IPOs at the time of issuance ($50m in 1971) and a then-massive take-private leveraged buyout ($1.7 billion in 1984).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Securus Technologies is in the midst of finalizing revisions to its $231 billion leveraged buyout debt package after investors pushed back on a first-out revolver included in the capital structure, according to sources.
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Look at Toys-R-Us, whose bankruptcy and mass layoffs announced in May resulted from a leveraged buyout begun with the best intentions and the full expectation that management would make a pile of money, Challenger said.
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The ADT Corporation, which provides home and business security systems for 21.5 million customers, is being acquired by the private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $21.1 billion in the largest leveraged buyout so far this year.
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Toys "R" Us filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September last year, hoping to restructure some $5 billion in debt, much of which stemmed from a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout by private equity firms in 2005.
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Refinitiv, the parent company of LPC, was created last year when a Blackstone Group LP-led consortium bought a 55% stake in Thomson Reuters' Financial and Risk business in the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis.
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NEW YORK (IFR) - Banks have cleared nearly all of the riskiest debt backing Carlyle's leveraged buyout of Veritas, after selling US$450m of an unsecured junk bond on Monday, a source close to the situation told IFR.
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A leveraged buyout of Walgreens would likely require participation of several private equity firms, each writing large checks, at a time when many of them have lost their appetite for teaming together on so-called club deals.
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Apollo has taken several companies private this year, including security services company ADT Corp, which it merged with its existing portfolio company Protection 1 in a deal worth $15 billion, making it this year's largest leveraged buyout.
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For Apollo, the deal represents a way to own a big chunk of OneMain without engaging in a full leveraged buyout, given that the company is already saddled with more than $14 billion in long-term debt.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US health club software and payment processor ABC Financial Services' leveraged buyout by private equity firm Thoma Bravo will be backed by US$375m of loans, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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Nielsen is heavily indebted, the legacy of a leveraged buyout in 2006 by six private equity firms; Carlyle Group LP, Blackstone Group LP, KKR & Co Inc, Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, AlpInvest Partners and Hellman & Friedman LLC.
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The deal, which is expected to close by year end or early 2020, would be the latest big leveraged buyout by Brookfield, which agreed last year to buy Johnson Controls International's power solutions business for about $13 billion.
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Leveraged buyout experts Apollo Global Management made the latest move into the red-hot global watch market, taking its Watches of Switzerland brand — an official Rolex retailer that also sells luxury imprints Patek Philippe, Cartier and Longines — public.
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IHeart, formerly known as Clear Channel Communications Inc, was taken over by private equity firms BainCapital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners through a leveraged buyout in 2008 for $26.7 billion, piling up the company with huge debts.
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Earlier this month, a Blackstone-led consortium completed the largest leveraged buyout since the crisis, taking over the financial data arm of Thomson Reuters, the parent of Reuters News, in a deal valued at $20 billion, including debt.
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The deal would further diversify Deutsche Boerse's business beyond stock trading, while enabling Refinitiv to trim its debt pile following its acquisition last year by a consortium led by Blackstone Group LP in a $20-billion leveraged buyout.
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There is also no guarantee that deals like the Bain Capital-led $18 billion acquisition of Toshiba's memory-chip business or the $11.5 billion leveraged buyout of Singapore's Global Logistics Properties by Hillhouse and Hopu can be replicated.
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Adding in around $10 billion in debt, such a deal would represent the largest leveraged buyout in history, surpassing the $45 billion acquisition of the Texas energy giant TXU (Energy Future Holdings) in 2007, which eventually went bankrupt.
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The trial has revived discussion of Musk's erratic behavior during 2018, when he used Twitter to float a leveraged buyout proposal for Tesla that was scuttled, ultimately paying $20 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint.
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The move comes as the private equity firms that control BMC - Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital - consider ways to start cashing out on their investment after taking the company private in 2013 in a $6.9 billion leveraged buyout.
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The slowdown in the debt markets may put a dent in the ability of private equity firms' ability to buy Yahoo, though bankers said that the company's relatively steady revenues would support the financing required in a leveraged buyout.
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The loan, which was arranged in 2015 to back Petsmart's leveraged buyout by a consortium of private equity firms led by BC Partners, is due to mature in 2022 and pays 300bp over Libor with a 1% Libor floor.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Some of the world's biggest private equity investors raised concerns this week that the $3.4 trillion leveraged buyout industry is overheating, as more fund managers pay top dollar for acquisitions that could prove costly down the line.
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"We don't see a clear leader in U.S. footwear retail today, like Nine West used to be," Birman said, referring to the shoe company whose bonds have tumbled since a 2014 leveraged buyout by private equity firm Sycamore Partners.
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N, also purchased in a leveraged buyout, has lost four-fifths of its stock value in the oil market rout since the exploration and production company went public in January 2014 at a valuation of more than $5 billion.
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Huge highly leveraged buyout loans are contributing to the spike, including US$2407.7bn of loans for travel commerce platform Travelport and a US$218bn dual-currency loan for Power Solutions, which backs the buyout of Johnson Controls' battery unit.
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With market volatility taking a heavy toll on the private equity financing market, Elliott's thesis for its Qlik investment shows how the hedge fund will lean more on strategic buyers for an exit opportunity rather than a leveraged buyout.
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The deal, which is expected to close by year end or early 2020, would be the latest big leveraged buyout by Brookfield, which agreed last year to buy Johnson Controls International Plc's power solutions business for about $13 billion.
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The company, which emerged from a bankruptcy filing in 2017 after a previous $1003 billion leveraged buyout by TPG Capital and Silver Lake in 2007, faces growing competition from large rivals such as Microsoft Corp and Amazon Web Services.
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Vornado, which was an equal partner with KKR and Bain in the leveraged buyout that loaded the retailer with more than $5bn of debt, has shunned discussions with representatives of former employees, according to people familiar with the talks.
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A major media union wants even more forceful action, calling for Postmedia's breakup and tougher rules against concentration and the type of leveraged buyout that helped Postmedia gain control of roughly one-third of Canada's English-language daily newspapers.
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In an incident that became central to Mr. Magowan's tenure at Safeway, he fended off a hostile takeover bid in 1986 from the Dart Group Corporation by agreeing to a $4.25 billion leveraged buyout from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company.
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"But, and this is a big but, US Foods is a private-equity backed IPO, a classic leveraged buyout story that has been flipped to the public markets, and these tend to carry their own particular set of risks," Cramer said.
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Newspaper publisher Tribune, which piled on nearly US$7.4bn in term debt during its leveraged buyout in 2007, filed for bankruptcy in 2008 but remains in the loan space via its legacy companies, broadcaster Tribune Media and newspaper publisher Tronc.
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Apollo's EP Energy, also purchased in a leveraged buyout, has lost four-fifths of its stock value in the oil market rout since the exploration and production company went public in January 2014 at a valuation of more than $5 billion.
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Meanwhile junk bond sales fell to $62.8 billion from $81.7 billion in the second quarter and versus $105.4 billion in Q3 2017, the IIF data showed, despite a $20173 billion deal to help finance KKR's leveraged buyout of Envision Healthcare.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - China-based private equity firm Primavera Capital has secured US$5.93m of loan commitments from Macquarie Group to back its leveraged buyout of US private schools system Stratford School, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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The proposed changes could also further stymie leveraged buyout activity, which has remained in the doldrums ever since the financial crisis, as a higher effective cost of debt reduces returns on equity for highly leveraged companies, and for LBOs in particular.
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For the grocer, this increases the certainty of close ― as compared to a leveraged buyout, where the purchasers would still need to secure debt commitments (Amazon also is raising debt, but has plenty of cash on hand, were it necessary).
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Carlyle acquired a stake of just over 50 percent in Getty Images in 2012 from Hellman & Friedman LLC, another private equity firm, in a so-called leveraged buyout, whereby a buyout firm saddles a company with debt to juice returns.
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Much of the debt had been taken on in 2007 when the Dallas-based company was formed through the $45 billion leveraged buyout of TXU Corp, led by KKR & Co, TPG Capital Management and the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs.
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Topping deals by highly indebted companies in the third quarter was the largest leveraged buyout funding since the financial crisis, backing Blackstone's 523% purchase of the Financial & Risk unit of Thomson Reuters that includes LPC and is being renamed Refinitiv.
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It is also worth clarifying that most of the capital required for going private would be funded by equity rather than debt, meaning that this would not be like a standard leveraged buyout structure commonly used when companies are taken private.
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But on Thursday, iHeartRadio's parent company, iHeartMedia, filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to restructure part of the $20 billion debt load that has burdened it since a leveraged buyout a decade ago, on the eve of the 2008 recession.
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But in the age of internet retailing, Toys "R" Us has struggled with an antiquated sales model that could not keep up with Amazon and Walmart, and was burdened by $5 billion in debt from a leveraged buyout in 2005.
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The traditional way for a publicly traded company to go private is through a leveraged buyout, in which private equity firms or other investors purchase all of the outstanding public shares with money they have borrowed from banks or other sources.
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Jevic Transportation Company, a New Jersey trucking company, filed for bankruptcy in 2008, two years after a $77.4 million leveraged buyout by the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, which former employees say heaped too much debt on its books.
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While Staples has sufficient cash flow to support a leveraged buyout, many firms struggle to see how they can take the company public or divest it at a significantly higher valuation than what they will pay for it, the sources added.
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The A$90bn superannuation fund joined a A$2.15bn loan supporting Brookfield Asset Management's leveraged buyout of Australian hospital operator Healthscope in September and a A$405m five-year loan in July for AATS Holdings' acquisition of Transport Australia Group.
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NEW YORK, April 19 (LPC) - US food contract manufacturer Hearthside Food Solutions' leveraged buyout by private equity firms Charlesbank Capital Partners and Partners Group will be backed by US$1.645bn of loans, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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But then the junk debt markets went into a tailspin, and banks shied away from lending for such deals after losing money on the syndication of some leveraged buyout loans, and junk bond investors started to head for the exits.
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Carlyle Group LP had agreed to buy Veritas for $8 billion in August in the biggest deal by a private equity firm in 2015, and banks' failure to drum up interest in Veritas' debt sent shockwaves through the leveraged buyout world.
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Many major Wall Street bankers contacted by Reuters said on condition of anonymity they were not aware of Musk's plans ahead of his tweets, and several expressed skepticism that a leveraged buyout of Tesla could be financed given the company's negative cash flow.
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Moreover, the standard method of doing so, saddling the company with debt in a so-called leveraged buyout, is not an option for Tesla given that is already servicing a debt mountain of some $11 billion and is not making any money.
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Then-CEO Robert DiNicola blamed the fall of the housing, mortgage and credit markets, as well as the decline in consumer spending, for his company's downfall — though Linens 'n Things was also crumbling under a mountain of debt after its leveraged buyout.
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Financing a leveraged buyout - EP Global plans to pay for the 5.8 billion euro ($6.5 billion) deal with 800 million in equity and the rest in debt - could be difficult if a domination agreement isn't in prospect, people close to the matter said.
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Apollo's EP Energy Corp, also purchased in a leveraged buyout, has lost four-fifths of its stock value in the oil market rout since the exploration and production company went public in January 2014 at a valuation of more than $5 billion.
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The average price for a leveraged buyout in 2017 globally was just under 11 times a company's 12-month earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the highest since the financial crisis, amid frothy equity and debt markets and fierce competition for deals.
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The deals show how private equity firms are expanding beyond the traditional leveraged buyout (LBO) model, which has driven most of their deals for the past 27.5 years, as they look to deploy the record $22018 trillion they have raised from their investors.
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"This transaction is a defining moment for LSE in terms of its strategic importance," LSE Chairman Don Robert said of the purchase, which comes ten months after a consortium led by U.S. private equity group Blackstone completed a leveraged buyout of Refinitiv from Thomson Reuters.
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The figures underscore the extent to which large institutional investors, as well as family offices, are placing a growing portion of their money with leveraged buyout firms, venture capital groups and growth equity funds, which are promising returns that beat the wider stock market.
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The re-writing of the terms marks a new chapter for the roiled U.S. leveraged buyout market, where dealmaking has slowed dramatically in the past two months as banks, faced with hundreds of millions of dollars of unsold acquisition debt, balked at providing new financing.
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In an opinion published on Tuesday, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery found that Dell shares were worth about $17.62 at the time of the 2013 leveraged buyout, rather than the $13.75 that Mr. Dell and Silver Lake paid.
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Musk, who owns about a fifth of Tesla, said previously that he envisioned taking the company private without the standard method of a leveraged buyout, in which all the other shareholders would cash out and the deal would be funded primarily with new debt.
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But investment bankers said on Wednesday that a leveraged buyout of Tesla — which in theory could cost as much as $70 billion if all of Tesla's shares were bought at the price of $420 a share that Mr. Musk floated — is likely a nonstarter.
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NEW YORK, Sept 21.5(Reuters) - Credit Suisse and Jefferies will provide US$1.028bn of loans to back the leveraged buyout of U.S. medical tubing and packaging company Tekni-Plex by private equity firm Genstar Capital from American Securities, two sources close to the matter said.
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Even as the field of investors in tech firms has grown more crowded — from traditional venture capital firms and leveraged-buyout specialists to more unusual entrants, like the Japanese tech giant SoftBank — Mr. Chen said his company had not experienced difficulty finding new investments.
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Leverage to Remain Elevated: Pro forma for cost savings and the leveraged buyout by Thoma Bravo, gross leverage will be elevated at 7.2x for FY2019, in line with peers in the 'B' rating category; Fitch expects this to trend down to below 0003x by FY2021.
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The deal, announced ten months after a Blackstone-led consortium completed a leveraged buyout of Refinitiv from Thomson Reuters, marks a rapid turnaround for the U.S. private equity group which is set to double the value of its investment, according to a person familiar with the deal.
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The deal comes ten months after a Blackstone-led consortium completed a leveraged buyout of Refinitiv from Thomson Reuters and marks a rapid turnaround for the U.S. private equity group which is set to double the value of its investment, a person familiar with the deal said.
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Pointing to the rate at which Tesla is burning through cash, growing competition from other electric carmakers, and its difficulty hitting production targets, analysts and investors were skeptical that lenders would be willing to finance what would likely be the largest leveraged buyout in U.S. history.
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The San Francisco-based company returned to the public markets Thursday for the first time since it went private through a leveraged buyout in 33 with a stock debut that sold $587 million worth of shares and gave it a market value of more than $8.7 billion.
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The deal for the for-profit Nashville-based operation, which competes with larger non-profits ASCAP and BMI, is the first from Blackstone's new $2450 billion fund that plans to hang on to acquisitions for at least a decade, far longer than a typical leveraged buyout.
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Refinitiv, the parent company of LPC and IFR, is majority owned by a consortium lead by US private equity firm Blackstone, which bought a 55% stake in Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk business in October 2018 for US$20bn in the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis.
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The deal for Sesac, a for-profit Nashville-based operation that competes with the larger nonprofits Ascap and BMI, is the first from Blackstone's new $5 billion fund that plans to hang on to acquisitions for at least a decade, far longer than a typical leveraged buyout.
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The San Francisco-based company returned to the public markets Thursday for the first time since it went private through a leveraged buyout in 33 with a stock debut that sold $587 million worth of shares and gave it a market value of more than $8.7 billion .
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Unsworth&aposs reputationThe Unsworth trial has revived discussion of Musk&aposs erratic behavior during 2018, when he also used Twitter to float a leveraged buyout proposal for Tesla that was scuttled and ultimately led to Musk paying $20 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint.
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Energy Future was forced into bankruptcy by weak electricity prices that left it unable to service its debt, much of it taken on to finance a leveraged buyout of what was then known as TXU Corp by KKR & Co, TPG Capital and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs.
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But the plant closed in early 2016 after a series of crippling blows: global aluminum prices plunged; a New York private equity fund heaped on $1 billion in debt in a leveraged buyout; an explosion disabled the plant's cast house; a power-outage shut two production lines.
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Communications company CenturyLink announced the acquisition of telecommunications provider Level 29.75 Communications last week; private equity firm Blackstone Group agreed to buy physician services organization TeamHealth in a leveraged buyout worth US$22015bn; and chipmaker Broadcom reported a deal to purchase network gear maker Brocade for US$3.373bn.
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Last year, private equity firms Bain Capital and KKR & Co Inc — which bought Toys 'R' Us in a 2005 leveraged buyout and loaded it with billions of dollars in debt before liquidating the chain in June 2018 — set aside $20 million for retail workers, who had demanded $75 million.
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LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A potential €12bn of leveraged buyout loans could hit Europe's loan market in the coming months as the pipeline of buyout deals starts to build, presenting a welcome break from a flood of refinancings and repricings that have dominated the market so far this year.
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Investors may also be spurred on by increased credit for leveraged buyouts - in China, a relatively new way to finance deals that came to the forefront in 2013, when a Carlyle-led consortium bought display advertising firm Focus Media for $3.7 billion in the country's biggest-ever leveraged buyout.
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Neiman Marcus, which is owned by buyout firm Ares Management LP and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, has been working with a financial restructuring adviser this year to cope with its $4.7 billion debt pile, with much being the legacy of its $6 billion leveraged buyout in 2013.
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It was acquired in a leveraged buyout in 2007 for $8.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners LP and TPG Capital LP. When Avaya was under the strain of its former debt pile, "it was like driving a car with the parking break on," Chief Executive Jim Chirico said.
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US Foods, which followed real estate investment trust MGM Growth Properties LLC's $1.2 billion IPO last month, has been followed closely by buyout firms because it is the first major leveraged buyout going public since stock market jitters put such debt-laden offerings on ice at the end of last year.
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Mr. Dell and Egon Durban, the Silver Lake managing partner who helped lead the leveraged buyout in 29 that made Dell a private company again, said they strongly believed that the computer maker should seek to get bigger — even as rivals like Hewlett-Packard were shedding businesses to become more focused.
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The ten-page policy paper that is Trump's only official statement on the matter—co-written by a UC-Irvine economist and a leveraged buyout king—is silent on pretty much all details, including, crucially, which private projects would qualify for tax kickbacks, and who would decide on the winners.
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This year the superannuation fund also joined two syndicated acquisition financings – the A$2.15bn five-year loan backing Brookfield Capital Partners' leveraged buyout of hospital operator Healthscope, which was completed recently, and a A$405.68m five-year loan completed in July for AAT for its purchase of Transport Australia Group.
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If he was dogged by disappointment, she was a classic overachiever: After putting herself through Harvard, she wrote for publications like The Miami Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for her exposé in The Wall Street Journal on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores.
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New Fox's most likely competitor (barring a competitive bid from a company like John Malone's Liberty Media) is a private equity firm -- and there's little chance a leveraged buyout firm could win a bidding war for the RSNs and satisfy its limited partners that it would make a future return on the assets.
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Warren is now attracting allies to her cause through a wide-ranging investigation by her office into several industries where private equity controls major players — a probe that's partly intended to help advocates on other issues like health care and consumer protection see the bigger role being played by the leveraged buyout firms.
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LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - Four highly anticipated leveraged buyout deals hit Europe's leveraged loan market this week, much to the relief of investors who have grown weary of a raft of refinancing and repricing transactions, but questions have been raised about whether the market can process all of the new deals at the same time.
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Big buyouts like Kraft Heinz (a $26 billion deal that combined the previously private Heinz with Kraft as a public company), Dell's own $25 billion leveraged buyout in 2013 and a raft of pre-financial crisis deals for Equity Office Properties Trust, Hilton Worldwide and Caesar's Entertainment, trail far behind Facebook's $20213 billion market cap.
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"We have previously suggested that SAM could make a good target for the likes of Molson Coors or even be a good candidate for a leveraged buyout (currently zero debt) that would take the company private and afford the new management the opportunity to turn the brands around away from the scrutiny of public markets investors," he wrote.
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His father was the founder and chief executive of Quincy Partners, a leveraged buyout firm that was in Glen Head, N.Y. The couple dated at Princeton, but had met a few years earlier, in 2007, in North Haven, Me., when Ms. du Pont offered a ride to Mr. Sutherland and a friend, whom Ms. du Pont knew.
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Typically, a publicly traded company goes back to being private through a transaction like a leveraged buyout, where either the company's management or an outside party, like a private equity firm or some other private company, borrows a large amount of money in order to buy all of the company's publicly traded shares from its shareholders.
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Competitor Neiman Marcus Group, which is owned by buyout firm Ares Management LP and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), offers a cautionary tale; it has been working with a financial restructuring adviser this year to cope with its $4.7 billion debt pile, much of which is down to its $6 billion leveraged buyout in 2013.
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Toys "R" Us, headquartered in my home state of New Jersey, was saddled with enormous debt after a leveraged buyout in 2005 (a precarious financial situation our own parent company, Univision, would trip ass-first into two years later.) After struggling against poor odds for well over a decade, the chain of 700+ stores announced a total liquidation in March.
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That is in no small part due to the size of the transaction: Walgreens Boots has a market value of about $55 billion and $16.8 billion of debt, so a take-private deal would be bigger than the current largest leveraged buyout — the sale of the utility TXU to KKR and TPG — which was worth about $603 billion including debt.
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These included a A$2.15bn (US$1.52bn) senior loan supporting the buyout of Australian hospital operator Healthscope, a A$660m six-year unitranche loan backing US private equity firm TPG Capital's leveraged buyout of Australian pet-store owner Greencross and UK forecourt operator EG Group's A$400m term loan B that partially funded its acquisition of the petrol business of Australian supermarket chain Woolworths, among others.
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Morgan cited three: United Airlines' failed leveraged buyout in October 1989, which effectively ended the LBO craze of the 1980s; the AOL-Time Warner merger in 2000, which indicated the dot com bubble was coming to a close; and JPMorgan Chase's takeunder of the failed Bear Stearns investment bank in 2008, which signaled the end of the financial excesses of the previous few years.
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I mean, it sort of undid him at the end, but the reason he was so obsessed is because he was rewarded insanely for it from the late 70s through the early 80s and he had enough of a war chest, he had about $400 million and that was enough actual equity that at the height of the LBO crisis, he could look at Viacom, this sort of ... Leveraged buyout crisis.
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Potential acquirers include grocers like Kroger, which could seek to diversify or further consolidate the grocery industry; Walmart, which has been building its coterie of digitally native brands; Target, which has been struggling to find its place; Nordstrom, which may need another route if its leveraged buyout falls through; and sit-down restaurant companies like Dinequity or Bloomin Brands, who may look to buy more on-trend, faster-serve concepts.
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The average leveraged buyout worldwide cost around 11 times a company's 12-month earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in 2018, up from 8.6 times in 103, according to consultancy Bain & Co. Soaring acquisition prices are setting off alarm bells among major institutional investors, such as public pension funds and insurance firms, that invest in private equity with the expectation that funds will achieve an internal rate of return (IRR) of 20 percent or more.
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Other deals whose spreads soared this month include U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc's $63 billion acquisition of Botox-maker Allergan Plc, private equity firm Apollo Global Management Inc's $6 billion leveraged buyout of U.S. information technology equipment Tch Data Corp, and buyout firm Blackstone Group Inc's $6.3 billion takeover of U.S. energy pipeline operator Tallgrass Energy LP. The companies and private equity firms did not immediately respond to requests for comments on the prospects of their deals.
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One structure being studied by banks and Tesla, according to people familiar with the matter, is a transaction that would reduce the number of shareholders to such a degree that Tesla's shares could be delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange and the company no longer would be required to make quarterly filings with the S.E.C. That would be expensive — it could cost $10 billion to $20 billion — but much less so than a full leveraged buyout, these people said.
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Per Pro Wrestling Sheet, a competitor garbed in the famous mascot costume "entered the rumble to hit a clothesline and chokeslam on two wrestlers," but while bragging to the crowd was slammed from behind by well-known wrestler Gangrel:While Amazon was not the primary cause of Toys "R" Us' downfall—that would be the private equity firms that bought the brand in a leveraged buyout and saddled it with huge amounts of debt—competition from huge e-commerce firms like Amazon or big box stores like Target and Walmart didn't help.
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If the deal was structured like a leveraged buyout, advisers to Tesla could earn $90 million to $120 million in fees, while advisers to Musk's investor group would earn $30 million to $50 million, and debt financing fees could reach $500 million, according to estimates from financial advisory firm Freeman & Co. However, if the Tesla deal is done with equity partners and little debt, as Musk envisions, the fees would be substantially lower, according to Freeman, making it more of a trophy rather than a lucrative assignment for bankers.
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