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 ...

With Homeplus set to come under court protection, MBK Partners faces mounting scrutiny over its LBO-driven investment strategy. Korea’s private equity sector is keeping close watch on the matter to ...

Private equity was a cottage industry in the 1970s, during KKR's initial leveraged buyout years. It remained so for about a decade until Michael Milken's junk bond bonanza catapulted the market to ...

Think of the infamous leveraged buy-out, in which investors borrow money to acquire an underperforming company. The buyer inevitably makes drastic changes, often including mass layoffs and selling ...

It’s the biggest private equity-owned asset in the M&A pipeline across the ditch by a mile. And it finally looks like it’s strolling towards an exit. A vintage Trade Me homepage from 2006.