leveraged-buyout

The options market perceives the potential for leveraged-buyout activity to be high.

On Sale: Put Protection on Retailers Brendan Conway 2010

So far this year, companies have sold $49.7 billion of investment-grade and high-yield bonds in the U.S. with net proceeds earmarked for current or future acquisitions and leveraged-buyout costs, according to data provider Dealogic.

Merger Financing Drives Busy Day in Corporate Debt Issues Kellie Geressy-Nilsen 2011

Warren Buffett has recorded a big loss on a troubled investment, one he made near the height of the leveraged-buyout boom.

Battered Bonds a Berkshire Blemish Serena Ng 2011

It is a noteworthy success, especially given how some of the deals done during the leveraged-buyout boom of the last decade have struggled.

Providence Cashes In on Kabel Deutschland Dana Cimilluca 2011

As an architect of the leveraged-buyout craze in the 1980s, and as an activist shareholder in more recent decades, Mr. Icahn has shown himself uniquely willing to play the bond markets in aggressive ways.

Icahn-Dynegy Plan Gets Test Matt Wirz 2011

For example, Barclays is still sitting on more than £ 23 billion in assets that were at the heart of the financial crisis: collateralized debt obligations, commercial real-estate loans and property, and leveraged-buyout loans.

Barclays Sees Profit Jump 36% David Enrich 2011

The last flood of such IPOs, from 2004 to 2006, resulted in annual returns of about 35% for the leveraged-buyout firms and their investors, say people involved in those deals.

Private Equity Makes Return to IPO Game Gregory Zuckerman 2011

In addition to his role at Berenson & Co., he will continue to be a partner at Oak Investment Partners, a venture-capital firm, and Diamond Capital Holdings, a leveraged-buyout firm.

Banking Vet Lockhart Joins Street Stampede to Boutiques Liz Moyer 2011

The fund attracted a lot of attention then because Ted Forstmann, a founder of the Forstmann, Little & Co. leveraged-buyout firm, and John Walton, whose father was Sam Walton, between them put $100 million behind the effort and raised another $100 million.

Forstmann's Not So Little Idea Daniel Henninger 2011

It is a noteworthy success, especially given how some of the deals done during the leveraged-buyout boom of the last decade have struggled.

Providence Cashes In on Kabel Deutschland Dana Cimilluca 2011