The Overhang of LBO Debt. Feb. 04, 2008 5:53 PM ET DIA, SPY, QQQ 1 Comment. Michael Shedlock. 967 Followers. ... sold about $1bn of its share of the debt ahead of the agreed schedule, ...

J.Crew, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and Chuck E. Cheese’s have two things in common: They all piled on crushing amounts of debt during leveraged buyouts. And they’ve all filed for bankruptcy during ...

Moving the LBO debt mountain Commentary: Buyout firms help slay Wall Street's albatross. Published: April 9, 2008 at 10:19 a.m. ET. Share. Resize.

Legal squabbles threaten LBO debt restructurings. By Reuters. October 20, 2010 1:09 PM UTC Updated October 20, 2010. Summary; Out-of-pocket lenders find new way to block debt deals ...

More evidence that the U.S. leveraged loan market continues to run hot: Private equity shops of late are completing high-profile LBO credits at leverage levels not seen since 2008. Specifically ...

The buyout boom removed hundreds of stocks from the coverage lists of Wall Street equity research shops. But while private-equity firms have lessened the burden of stock jockeys, their debt-laden ...

Private-equity firms helped create billions of dollars in debt during the leveraged-buyout boom. Now some of those funds are eyeing and buying that very same debt at discounts as its value plunges ...

LBO-related debt, however, made extensive use of very equity-friendly financing such as payment-in-kind notes. In the present environment, demand for such exotica has dried up.

The fallout from a two-year binge of using borrowed money to finance corporate acquisitions is set to intensify due to a $120 billion pile of high-risk debt still needing a home.

Yet the amount of hung bridge debt is a fraction of what it was in 2007, tens rather than hundreds of billions, even though LBOs topped $200bn in 2022 — the highest volume in a decade other than ...