The Return of Leveraged Buyouts
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Get up to speed on this resurgent financial trend.
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Telstra Corp has announced a $750 million off-market share buy-back as part of its capital management program. Telstra expects to return $1.
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The leveraged buyouts that have fuelled record merger activity face a new test as interest rates rise and stock markets wobble, early signs that the debt behind the deals could become more costly and difficult to raise.
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Citigroup  and Goldman Sachs  are the most exposed to further writedowns from leveraged loans in the first quarter, as the value of loans and bonds created to finance leveraged buyouts plunges, Bank of America said.
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If so, did private equity kill it? The large number of terminated and troubled private equity acquisitions has led to talk of a fundamental shift in the way M&#038;A deals are structured. Sellers will demand tighter terms and more favorable contracts, which limit buyer optionality. In other words, MAC clauses will become narrower and reverse termination [...].
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In buyouts, the winners can include rival companies that go head to head in the marketplace with businesses that are laden with debt as a result of leveraged buyouts.
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Investor's Business Daily - The barbarians aren't sitting on the fence anymore. They're making leveraged buyouts.
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Let's face it. Private equity firms hogged the deal-making spotlight in 2007, first with their high-flying buyouts and then with their frantic efforts to salvage them. But corporate acquirers, otherwise known as strategics, weren't exactly on vacation. Just ask Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation pulled off an audacious takeover of Dow Jones that many said was [...].
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The spinoff, that old ploy for companies keen to unlock value, is back in vogue. The trend is due partly to increased pressure on chief executives to boost shareholder returns as activist investors prowl for undervalued companies and leveraged buyout firms itch to put their billions to work.
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Judging from the recent headlines, it would be easy to think that Wall Street&#8217;s private-equity machine shut down for the entire month of August. That would be an exaggeration &#8212; though not by much. Data from Thomson Financial show that the combined value of private-equity-related mergers and acquisitions of United States companies came to just $4.2 [...].
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These companies are buying back their shares. Should you join them?
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Investors are running back into mutual funds.
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Investors observing the seemingly uninterrupted parade of corporate buyout announcements might wonder how much the deals and the attendant rise in stock prices might boost returns in their mutual funds. The answer lies in the type of funds they own.
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NEW YORK, July 23 -- Stocks rebounded Monday after a fresh round of buyout news offered evidence that Wall Street's penchant for dealmaking has not disappeared.
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Big valuation, leaky moat, and a large shareholder fleeing. Any takers?
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The buy high-sell low strategy may be a recipe for disaster for your average investor. But for companies, it has been a way to improve reported profits.
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Why canât the executives who are running companies involved in the leveraged buyout boom deliver the same success for their shareholders?