Leveraged buyouts, or LBOs, are a type of corporate takeover in which a nonoperating private equity company acquires a public company through debt financing. LBOs transform ailing companies by taking ...

The rust is coming off the gears of private equity's LBO machine. Leveraged buyouts accounted for 40% of US PE deals in 2008, but PE's bread-and-butter transaction type has given way to alternative ...

The multiple of leveraged-buyout debt to earnings has hit 5.8, its highest since the financial crash, according to LCD/S&P. A debt level of six times earnings has historically been regarded as ...

LBO France has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Dutscher group, a pan-European distributor of R&D laboratory consumables and equipment. The sellers are Five Arrows Principal Investments and ...

PPD, an LBO'd contract research organization that provides drug development services, filed on Thursday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. However, the deal size ...