But then that's the natural reaction in any old-line industry when aggressive leveraged buyout artists invade.
Thus leveraged buyout operators don't have to turn around a troubled company to get rich.
Now Apple is the most valuable company on Earth, while Dell is just another leveraged buyout.
Willis appears still to be reaping the benefits that can come from a leveraged buyout.
We also performed other traditional corporate valuation techniques (i.e. discounted cash flow, comparable companies, leveraged buyout).
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Although the transaction is considered a leveraged buyout, it's different from the typical private-equity deal.
Its founder regained control in a 1987 leveraged buyout and took the firm public later that year.
All the talk, all the posturing around the Best Buy leveraged buyout just ended with barely a whimper.
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Enter leveraged buyout firms, which are flush with capital and hungry for deals.
If successful, the bid would be the largest leveraged buyout since Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought RJR Nabisco in 1989.
McKeon signed a deal in 2004 to purchase DynCorp in a leveraged buyout.
Until the risk premium contracts substantively, the leveraged buyout sector stays closed down.
Schulze spent the winter mulling a leveraged buyout of Best Buy after his unceremonious departure from the company in June.
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Almost immediately, with the subprime mortgage crisis swirling and lots of leveraged buyout debt overhanging balance sheets, the bonds fell precipitously.
In the sizzling leveraged buyout business, Goldman is both an investor and an adviser--often at the same time, in the same transaction.
For years big shot Wall Street money managers like Blackstone Group have raised money from pension funds to make leveraged buyout investments.
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Castle, 63, is a leveraged buyout guy, one of the best around.
Or instead of an integrated Goldman-Simpson, Goldman could buy Simpson in a leveraged buyout deal and maintain it as a separate entity.
The Leveraged Buyout (LBO) for Dell is meeting skepticism from analysts.
So how do you make a mortgage or a leveraged buyout compliant?
It was the first leveraged buyout since the demise of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, according to private equity researcher Prequin.
The sale is structured as a leveraged buyout, which requires the acquired company to repay the debt taken on to finance the deal.
Michael Dell announced the leveraged buyout after his turnaround plan, started with his return as CEO in 2007, failed to revive sales and profit.
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But is there anyone out there who would, or even could, run the program to take Apple private through a leveraged buyout (LBO)?
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's new leveraged buyout shop specializing in undervalued real estate companies.
In 1968, in a leveraged buyout, Kraft acquired half the company.
The billionaire said in his regulatory filing that he plans to speak to management about increasing shareholder value, including the possibility of a leveraged buyout.
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"It was a VLBO, or 'very leveraged buyout, ' " jokes Valdiserri.
Now, Schulze has been mulling a leveraged buyout of the company.
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