The busiest year for leveraged buyouts of public companies by number was 1988, with 80 going private.
A. from Stanford University and spent 25 years in the world of leveraged buyouts.
Mr. Perry points out that 80% of funds for U.S. leveraged buyouts are provided by non-banks.
It also has become harder for some firms to raise debt the linchpin of leveraged buyouts.
Stepping back and reviewing, Dell could very well become the latest cautionary tale of leveraged buyouts.
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Noteworthy alumnus: Henry Kravis, the king of leveraged buyouts and founder of the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Now, as part of a broader plan to diversify beyond its stock-in-trade leveraged buyouts, it is gearing up.
"Leveraged buyouts tend to leave existing customers and innovation at the curb, " H-P said in a press release.
Since the start of 2005 virgin companies have accounted for 59% of the new-issue business, retreads of leveraged buyouts the remainder.
And Citi is on the hook for billions-worth of loans for leveraged buyouts.
And they changed the name of what they did to leveraged buyouts (LBOs).
It didn't self-destruct, in good part because Wall Street firms and banks started using their own capital to do leveraged buyouts.
Less income after tax will result in lower marketplace valuations and leave equity-rich companies more vulnerable to takeovers or leveraged buyouts.
It began to treat the unit as a source of growth, investing in speculative ventures such as property and leveraged buyouts.
Many bonds in the BlackRock fund are the by-product of leveraged buyouts.
The financial crisis humbled the Masters of the Universe who run the private equity firms that put together leveraged buyouts of companies.
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Recently, for example, Princeton University announced plans to drop half of its private equity managers as it shrinks investments in leveraged buyouts.
Leveraged buyouts tend to leave existing customers and innovation at the curb.
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The fact that the purchase of Debenhams was financed as most leveraged buyouts are by loading its balance sheet with debt need not be a bad thing.
That reflects the boom in leveraged buyouts over the last year.
That makes it one of the largest leveraged buyouts since 2007.
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Payless Holdings earned spots due to leveraged buyouts taking them private.
Nine of the ten top leveraged buyouts ever have taken place since the beginning of last year (KKR's 1988 purchase of RJR Nabisco is the exception).
The markets' rebound, fueled by the boom in leveraged buyouts and hedge funds, has given Goldman new opportunities to wear myriad hats in the same deal.
Just to make sure nobody missed his point, Kaplan followed up in 2008 with a paper called "Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity, " co-written with Per Stromberg.
Financial stocks are well off the lofty levels they reached earlier this summer, when a seemingly endless appetite for leveraged buyouts and other deal-making propelled record earnings.
In May 2012, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council released its own cartoon video on YouTube that walked viewers briskly through the inner workings of leveraged buyouts.
He earned a BA in Engineering Sciences and Economics from Dartmouth and a Harvard MBA. He did leveraged buyouts of paper and cardboard companies for Morgan Stanley (MS).
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Private-equity firms and leveraged buyouts, which is one of the ways Bain pursued its business, are, after all, pretty much capitalism parading around in its most naked state.
Well, yes, that is very different from doing leveraged buyouts.
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