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companies for $ 375 billion, representing 18 times the level of transactions closed in 2003. Additionally, U.S.-based private-equity firms raised $ 215.4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22% and 33% higher than the 2005 fundraising total. The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds. Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were:
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offering a deal fee to the management team if a certain price threshold is reached. Financial sponsors usually react to this again by offering to compensate the management team for a lost deal fee if the purchase price is low. Another mechanisms to handle this problem are earn-outs (purchase price being contingent on reaching certain future profitabilities).
706:, submitted a bid of $ 112, a figure they felt certain would enable them to outflank any response by Kravis's team. KKR's final bid of $ 109, while a lower dollar figure, was ultimately accepted by the board of directors of RJR Nabisco. At $ 31.1 billion of transaction value, RJR Nabisco was the largest leveraged buyout in history until the 2007 buyout of
523:, began a series of what they described as "bootstrap" investments. Many of the target companies lacked a viable or attractive exit for their founders, as they were too small to be taken public and the founders were reluctant to sell out to competitors: thus, a sale to an outside buyer might prove attractive. In the following years, the three
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must own after the acquisition in order to qualify as an MBO, as opposed to a normal leveraged buyout in which the management invests together with the financial sponsor. However, in the usual use of the term, an MBO is a situation in which the management team initiates and actively pushes the acquisition.
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announced major writedowns due to credit losses. The leveraged finance markets came to a near standstill. As 2007 ended and 2008 began, it was clear that lending standards had tightened and the era of "mega-buyouts" had come to an end. Nevertheless, private equity continues to be a large and active
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with its lenders. The financial restructuring might entail that the equity owners inject some more money in the company and the lenders waive parts of their claims. In other situations, the lenders inject new money and assume the equity of the company, with the present equity owners losing their
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events led to the failure. The analysis historically depended on "dueling" expert witnesses and was notoriously subjective, expensive, and unpredictable. However, courts are increasingly turning toward more objective, market-based measures.
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LBOs, the only collateral is the company's assets and cash flows. The financial sponsor can treat their investment as common equity, preferred equity, or other securities. Preferred equity pays dividends and has priority over common equity.
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1679:". The Washington Post, March 15, 2007.
1626:Ford Completes Sale of Hertz to 3 Firms
767:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
760:United States Secretary of the Treasury
571:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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1690:U.S. private-equity funds break record
1569:New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
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1790:Sorting Through the Buyout Freezeout
169:adding citations to reliable sources
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1692:Associated Press, January 11, 2007.
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721:of several large buyouts including
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1756:Lonkevich, Dan and Klump, Edward.
795:Private equity in the 21st century
132:
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1919:Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
1910:"Takeovers and Leveraged Buyouts"
1901:
1808:id=9566005 Turmoil in the markets
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1273:The History Of Leveraged Buyouts
1162:Madoff, Ray D. (June 16, 2019).
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2245:Publicly traded private equity
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959:Sales to strategic buyers and
946:Secondary and tertiary buyouts
451:Waterman Steamship Corporation
447:Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company
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2513:List of venture capital firms
1760:Bloomberg, February 26, 2007.
546:In January 1982, former U.S.
2886:Staggered board of directors
2493:List of private equity firms
2250:Business Development Company
1666:." Bloomberg, March 29, 2005
1081:List of private-equity firms
7:
3003:Accretion/dilution analysis
1368:10 Questions for Carl Icahn
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1002:Federated Department Stores
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727:Federated Department Stores
542:Private equity in the 1980s
462:Orkin Exterminating Company
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2337:High-net-worth individuals
2127:Leveraged recapitalization
1908:Jarrell, Gregg A. (2002).
1486:Nabisco Refinance Plan Set
983:secondary market purchases
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548:Secretary of the Treasury
496:(Reliance Insurance) and
281:History of private equity
50:This article needs to be
3201:Mergers and acquisitions
3155:List of investment banks
3070:Free cash flow to equity
2896:Super-majority amendment
2821:Management due diligence
2761:Seasoned equity offering
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2856:Post-merger integration
2826:Managerial entrenchment
2796:Contingent value rights
2736:Initial public offering
2292:Institutional investors
1677:The Private Equity Boom
1384:TWA – Death Of A Legend
785:bankruptcy protection.
771:New York Stock Exchange
530:Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
443:McLean Industries, Inc.
123:ratio of debt to equity
3196:Management cybernetics
3008:Adjusted present value
2871:Special-purpose entity
2709:Direct public offering
2679:At-the-market offering
2430:Liquidation preference
2395:Distribution waterfall
2347:Sovereign wealth funds
1868:Cite journal requires
1788:SORKIN, ANDREW ROSS. "
1718:SORKIN, ANDREW ROSS. "
1675:Samuelson, Robert J. "
1643:SORKIN, ANDREW ROSS. "
1529:Stone, Dan G. (1990).
1301:Taylor, Alexander L. "
1288:Barbarians at the Gate
1258:yalealumnimagazine.com
851:spilled over into the
789:Age of the mega-buyout
779:Drexel Burnham Lambert
738:Drexel Burnham Lambert
672:Shearson Lehman Hutton
668:Shearson Lehman Hutton
642:Drexel Burnham Lambert
511:and later his protégé
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3023:Conglomerate discount
2503:Venture capital firms
2255:Venture capital trust
1104:MacKinlay, A. Craig.
814:The Hertz Corporation
781:officially filed for
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3040:Discounted cash flow
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2211:Private equity firms
2160:Post-money valuation
2037:Equity co-investment
1653:, September 14, 2004
1634:, September 13, 2005
1393:by Elaine X. Grant,
1049:debt-to-equity ratio
610:Harold Clark Simmons
509:Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.
449:in January 1955 and
165:improve this section
127:debt-to-equity swaps
32:LBO (disambiguation)
2630:Senior secured debt
2533:Portfolio companies
2450:Undercapitalization
2302:Insurance companies
2220:Limited partnership
2165:Pre-money valuation
1737:WERDIGIER, JULIA. "
1624:PETERS, JEREMY W. "
1615:, September 8, 2005
1484:Wallace, Anise C. "
1370:by Barbara Kiviat,
1270:Trehan, R. (2006).
1168:Wall Street Journal
1026:fraudulent transfer
818:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
712:Texas Pacific Group
618:Sir James Goldsmith
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283:and venture capital
3165:Outline of finance
3077:Market value added
3060:Financial modeling
3018:Business valuation
2941:Debt restructuring
2719:Follow-on offering
2704:Corporate spin-off
2662:(terms/conditions)
2579:investment banking
2385:Capital commitment
2155:Business incubator
2122:Buy–sell agreement
1914:David R. Henderson
1798:, August 12, 2007.
1709:, January 8, 2008.
1510:The New York Times
1491:The New York Times
1389:2008-11-21 at the
1337:Journal of Finance
1086:Vulture capitalist
1022:financial distress
1014:debt restructuring
1000:'s 1988 buyout of
897:Management buyouts
861:PIK and PIK Toggle
801:Sarbanes–Oxley Act
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725:'s 1988 buyout of
569:, chairman of the
474:Berkshire Hathaway
387:COVID-19 recession
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2575:Corporate finance
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1596:, March 17, 2005.
1395:St Louis Magazine
1285:Burrough, Bryan.
1066:Divisional buyout
1061:Bootstrap funding
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