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Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Debt Financing in Private Equity

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In recent years, the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) financing in private equity (PE) has experienced significant changes. Rising costs of debt and fluctuating availability have compelled PE firms to reassess...more

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International Comparative Legal Guide – Private Equity 2024

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For the sixth consecutive year, Dechert is the contributing editor of the International Comparative Legal Guide - Private Equity. The guide, now in its tenth edition, is one of the most comprehensive comparative guides to...more

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AB 3129 Passes California Legislature, Targeting Private Equity Health Care Transactions and Granting AG Consent Right

On August 31, 2024, the California State Assembly and State Senate passed Assembly Bill 3129 (“AB 3129”). If signed by Governor Newsom, AB 3129 would establish a comprehensive transaction review law that (i) targets private...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Highlights on the Reality in the Middle Market Today

On May 7, 2024, Morrison Foerster’s New York City office co-hosted a Private Markets Pop-Up with Kayo Conference Series, an event that brought together professional women across the private credit and private equity markets...more

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Charting a path for European carve-outs

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As central banks continue their campaign to cool inflation, interest rates remain at elevated levels not seen in well over a decade. For companies, this makes funding growth initiatives and refinancing existing debt much more...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Approaching Secondaries Financing from All Angles: Key Considerations for Debt in LP-Led and GP-Led Secondary Transactions

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Debt finance plays a key role in all parts of the capital structure for private investment funds and their investors.  In particular, the use of debt finance is an increasingly important component of secondary transactions,...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Venture Debt: Down Round Protection Without Triggering Downside Provisions

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There is increasing chatter in the startup and investor space surrounding venture debt. It is not at all surprising that as the availability of ready capital has contracted considerably over the past two years, debt and...more

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Private Capital – Outlook for 2024

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A subdued 2023 is in the rear-view mirror but the outlook for 2024 is positive – how do Private Capital players in Australia optimise their chances of deal success in 2024? On both sides of the M&A equation – Private...more

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Strategic financial options for clinical stage life sciences companies in a troubled equity market

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Early 2023 has seen new and unprecedented financial challenges for clinical stage life sciences companies. The financing rounds of 2021 and 2022 are starting to run off, while at the same time the equity markets are either...more

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UK Take-Privates funded by Private Credit

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The provision of leveraged financing to help fund the acquisition of listed companies into sponsor-backed private ownership (“P2Ps”) is a well-trodden path....more

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Alternative Financing in the Shipping Industry

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In the decade since the global financial crisis, ship financing has undergone considerable change. Traditionally, debt financing with banks and equity financing were the most common methods used by shipping companies to raise...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Key Dynamics of Private Debt

Executive summary • Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 still saw robust private equity (PE) activity relative to historical activity, with well over 5,000 completed transactions even amid a drop in aggregate deal value...more

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Creative Uses of Collateral Present New Financing Opportunities for PE

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Innovative asset-based lending is on the rise as a means of attracting new lenders while maintaining the strategic support of existing creditors. Raising fresh capital for portfolio companies in times of financial stress is...more

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Precautions-The "Private" Issue In Privatization Transactions

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A previous article by our firm has sorted out and summarized privatization transactions. As a companion article, this article will discuss a very important but easily overlooked issue in privatization transactions. The...more

Opportune LLP

7 Takeaways From Hart Energy’s Energy Capital Conference

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I attended Hart Energy’s Energy Capital Conference in Dallas, TX on March 2, 2020 and came away with optimism despite negative headwinds facing the oil and gas industry. The good news is that capital is still available to the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Leveraged Acquisitions Roundtable

Drinker Biddle’s Corporate and Securities Group recently hosted its 13th annual roundtable discussion, which took place at Gulph Mills Golf Club in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This year’s event sported a new name—“The...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

[Webinar] Money, Money, Money: Raising Capital and Exit Transactions for Life Sciences Companies - October 3rd, 12:00 pm ET

Access to capital is critical for life sciences companies. Securing funding can be a lengthy and complex process compounded by the need to plan for various exit transaction scenarios. Register now for this one-hour,...more

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Western European private equity dealmaking rebounds in Q2 - Ample firepower and increasingly attractive public market valuations...

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After the extension of the March 29 Brexit deadline to October, Western Europe's private equity market staged a frenzied comeback in Q2. Deal volume fell from 510 to 399 deals at the same time that value surged by 88%...more

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Equity Kickers and the Criminal Rate of Interest: Part II

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Private equity and alternate lenders often take a basket of rights when investing in an entity. The basket may include equity, options, warrants and/or debt. In the case of debt financing, lenders often negotiate equity...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

European Private Equity Thrives With Record Fundraising

Private equity (PE) fundraising in Europe hit €91.9 billion in 2017, the highest it has been since 2006.1 Of that amount, €71.7 billion was invested in European companies, an increase of 29 percent year over year. This record...more

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Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2017 Edition: Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance

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A delicate balance has evolved over time in leveraged acquisitions with respect to the nature of the contractual relationship between a target and its owners, on the one hand, and the debt financing sources of the buyer, on...more

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For closely held companies: Is there, or will there soon be, a significant lender in your life?

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Ten considerations for closely held companies incurring debt in connection with minority investments by private equity sponsors, growth financing, or dividend recapitalizations....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Private equity in Italy: market and regulatory overview

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How do private equity funds typically obtain their funding? Private equity funds continued to have a diverse investor base in 2015. Although with a significant decrease from the 2014 figure of 68%, about 48% of the...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Comvest Partners Closes PE Fund at $893 Million

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Comvest Investment Partners V closed with $893 million in total capital commitments, above the $700 million target established at the outset of fundraising....more

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Current Marketplace Trends in Real Estate Crowdfunding

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Today, there appears to be an ever-expanding number of sponsors and markets for crowdfunding. Commercial real estate is no exception. At the recent IMN US Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing Forum, Elizabeth...more

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