Sun Capital Completes Horizon Acquisition
Sun Capital Partners, Inc., a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, today announced that an affiliate has completed the acquisition of Horizon Services, Inc. Wilmington, Delaware-based Horizon Services is the premier residential provider of plumbing, heating and air conditioning services for Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
KKR Raises $688M For Growth Deals As Small Is New Big
After making its name doing several of the largest leveraged buyouts ever, KKR & Co. now wants to take smaller bites of growth-stage businesses.
Explaining The Yale Investment Model’s Success
David Swensen has been the chief investment officer of Yale University’s endowment fund since 1985. During this period, the Yale endowment has made significant changes in its asset-allocation pattern...
How To Overcome Structuring Challenges In Israeli Leveraged Buyouts
How foreign private equity sponsors and their lenders are finding solutions to local law structuring issues - Leveraged finance acquisitions have existed in the Israeli market for many years.
India Leveraged Buyouts On The Rise
More than eight out of every 10 leveraged buyouts (LBO) that happened in post-liberalization India took place after 2007.
Waud Capital’s Bigger, Bolder Buyout Fund
All but one institutional investor that backed the firm’s prior fund returned to commit capital to Waud Capital Partners IV LP, according to the firm. Waud, which contributed $156 million to the final tally for Fund IV, said it plans to continue to focus on investments of $50 million to $100 million, despite the larger fund.
TPG Nears $10B Private Equity Fundraising Close
The move is representative of a comeback in leveraged buyouts for one of the world’s largest private equity firms. Founded in 1992, TPG enjoyed early successes followed by some high-profile missteps in the runup to the 2008 financial crisis.
TPG Nears $10B Private Equity Fundraising Close
(Reuters) - TPG Capital LP is close to finishing a two-year effort to raise its latest global private equity fund, amassing $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, a key step in the firm's plans for an eventual initial public offering.
TPG Nears $10B Private Equity Fundraising Close
<p style="line-height: 18.9091px;"><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Tpg" target="_blank">TPG </a><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Capital" target="_blank">Capital </a>LP is close to finishing a two-year effort to raise its latest global private equity fund, amassing $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, a key step in the firm's plans for an eventual initial public offering. The move is representative of a comeback in leveraged buyouts for one of the world's largest private equity firms. Founded in 1992, TPG enjoyed early successes followed by some high-profile missteps in the runup to the 2008 financial crisis.</p>
Apollo Takes New Tack On ADT Deal Financing
<span style="line-height: 18.9091px;">The private-equity firm said on February 16 that it has agreed to buy ADT Corp in a deal that values the burglar-alarm vendor at about $7 billion. It comes at a time when falling oil prices and concerns about a global economic slowdown have soured banks and many investors on the junk-rated debt used to back leveraged buyouts.</span>