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  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    LexLeveraged loans
    Ebitda: creative accounting did not end when debt was initially sold Premium content

    Many loan term sheets lack definitions for ebitda allowing corporates to avoid breaching covenants

  • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
    Scoreboard
    The unlikely alliance between Real Madrid and Barcelona Premium content

    Why golf has a problem with Saudi money, the cost of Raducanu’s Wimbledon exit, and more

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Markets InsightAnneka Treon
    The looming risks in private equity returns

    More insulated than stock markets, the industry is still exuberant — but the reckoning may be coming

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Apollo Global Management LLC
    Leon Black loses lawsuit accusing former Apollo rival of conspiracy

    Billionaire alleged Josh Harris plotted to unseat him as chief of private equity firm

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Megadeals buoy global M&A despite pullback from record 2021

    Deals such as Elon Musk’s proposed acquisition of Twitter carried volumes to $2tn in first half

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone dealt legal setback after $5bn low-income housing deal

    Private equity group says it is working to resolve litigation inherited with AIG property portfolio

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Toshiba Corp
    KKR takes back seat in Toshiba bidding process

    Move leaves rival Bain in lead position to take Japanese conglomerate private

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Atlas Merchant Capital LLC
    Bob Diamond’s private equity firm raises funding from Qatar

    Atlas Merchant Capital secures commitment of $100mn from Qatar Financial Centre and seeks $1.5bn from other investors

  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    InterviewHoward Marks
    Time is ripe to snap up bargains, says debt investor Howard Marks

    Oaktree Capital’s co-founder is turning aggressive after sharp market sell-off

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    LexVenture capital investment
    SumUp/FalconX: escalating uprounds will feel the downdraft of recession Premium content

    The appetite of investors for risky tech bets has diminished

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    LexToshiba Corp
    Toshiba: weak yen strengthens hand of foreign bidders Premium content

    The currency’s plunge against the dollar makes Japanese companies and assets very cheap for overseas buyers

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    Private equity’s sell-to-yourself bandwagon is a wild ride

    One issue is asymmetry of information and experience, another the recutting of terms

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    British Business Bank Plc
    UK state-backed development bank prepares for tech valuation falls

    British Business Bank to use uncommitted funds to support start-ups seeking to raise capital as economy weakens

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    The Big Read
    Selling to yourself: the private equity groups that buy companies they own

    Private equity groups are increasingly buying companies that they already own. But critics point to conflicts of interest within these deals that allow managers to reap great financial rewards

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    LexEuromoney Institutional Investor PLC
    Euromoney: data is the lure for acquirers, not derring-do Premium content

    It is an attractive deal for the private equity firms making the approach, with the company well placed for recovery

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
    Private equity groups make £1.6bn takeover approach for Euromoney

    Demand for data services has helped UK-listed company recover from pandemic

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Special ReportFTfm: ETFs and Asset Management
    Traditional firms race to expand private investment alternatives

    Mainstream asset managers are competing with private equity groups for a bigger slice of the growing private asset market

  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    Financial services
    Private equity chiefs fear waking up with ‘a terrible hangover’

    Financiers at SuperReturn conference face up to rising rates and a looming recession

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Due Diligence
    SuperPumped at private equity’s SuperReturn

    Plus, how EY can make its planned split a reality

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Cat Rutter Pooley
    Boots is cautionary tale of how buyout boom went bad

    Chemist chain is not a business that can be fixed by some fancy financing

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Due Diligence
    Bankers, text at your own risk Premium content

    Plus KKR has learnt to share its spoils and Thoma Bravo gets a deal recut

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    Sanjeev Gupta
    American Industrial Partners seizes control of Sanjeev Gupta’s Belgian plant

    Move by US buyout group dismantles industrialist’s continental operations

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    Inside BusinessSujeet Indap
    Workers’ windfall at KKR-owned company shows private equity shift

    Hundreds of workers stand to collect $175,000 in average profits after sale of CHI Overhead Doors

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Thoma Bravo seizes on pay issue to lower Anaplan buyout price

    Private equity firm negotiates reduction after alleging software company violated merger terms

  • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
    Ares hands back control of company it seized from Novalpina buyout fund

    Private markets group reaches ‘mutually agreeable resolution’ over French drugmaker Laboratoire XO

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