More than 100 jobs were saved at Floform in 2007 following a management buy-out.
By convention, most buy-out bosses maintain that they anticipated a recession and acted cautiously.
In reality, the buy-out industry had its biggest-ever binge just before the bust began.
The greed and destruction that characterised America's buy-out boom have given the era a bad name.
This success in cashing out of earlier deals is further feeding the buy-out boom.
TDC, a Danish telecoms company acquired last year in Europe's largest leveraged buy-out so far.
Weekend newspaper reports suggested an American-backed consortium had been working on a buy-out proposal.
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The management buy-out bought MFI from its previous owner, private equity group Merchant Equity Partners (MEP).
Other suggestions include extending rural community land buy-out rights to large towns and cities.
And the Premiership outfit has also been linked with a buy-out from American investors.
Buy-out shops are now dashing to find worthwhile companies to spend their cash on.
Mr Swensen looked at 542 buy-out deals that were started and concluded during 1987-98.
Buy-out bosses are under pressure to revise the fee structures that made them rich.
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"I tried to help with the management buy-out, " he was quoted as saying.
Buy-out firms also protected themselves by aggressively buying back bank debt at distressed prices when they could.
Mr Messer invited Carlyle, a private-equity firm, to join him in a successful buy-out of this part of the business.
That has enabled buy-out firms to start dialling back the amount of equity they put into portfolio companies.
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But, with some advanced planning, the ultimate outcome can be far more beneficial than a hastily designed buy-out.
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Its acquisition of AlpInvest makes it the first major buy-out firm to have a private-equity fund of funds.
Blackstone sold most of Equity Office Properties immediately after its 2007 buy-out, which helped it pay down debt.
Some of those involved back then are understood to be involved in the proposed buy-out 24 years later.
Strictly speaking then, these legendary companies are no longer really technology firms anymore, but rather giant leveraged buy-out companies.
Blackstone has pioneered the model of buy-out firms diversifying into other business lines.
Rumors of a buy-out at Eastman Kodak abated on Friday, after the company saw its stock skyrocket on Thursday.
In response, the consortium led by Mr Dell said its buy-out offer was "in the best interests of stockholders".
But to many the firm still embodies the excesses of the buy-out boom.
Instead, Yale's largest equity investments are in private venture-capital and leveraged buy-out partnerships.
Many criticised it for being slow to do deals in the buy-out boom and for sitting on too much cash.
On other calculations, buy-out houses in Europe alone paid their shareholders enormous dividends in the first half of this year.
Shortly afterwards he led a management buy-out, after which First emerged as one of Britain's two leading private bus firms.
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