A leveraged buyout (LBO) primarily uses debt. Private equity firms often use LBOs to buy companies, improve them, and then sell them for a profit. Notable LBOs in financial history include Gibson ...

New research, focused on 19 of the 25 largest U.S. private equity-leveraged buyout families, argues private equity is riskier ...

Accordingly, Hill views the deal with an “unusually high degree of uncertainty that makes it much less straightforward than a regular leveraged buyout.” For this reason, Hill downgrades ...

Another ‘go big or go home’ move by Signor Pessina. The Financial Times reports this afternoon from “people familiar with the matter” that Walgreens Boots Alliance chairman Stefano Pessina will nearly ...