With stocks trading low, several company founders raised enough private equity finance to take their companies off US exchanges and private again.
And on Thursday two Sydney-based private equity suitors, Allco Finance Group and Pacific Equity Partners , announced their interest in joining the consortium.
The biggest problems may occur not in the bond market but in leveraged loans, the debt issued by private-equity companies to finance their buy-outs of public companies.
Instead they're talking to private-equity investors to help finance their expansion plans.
Mr Altman is especially worried by the large amount of low-quality debt issued in recent years, much of it to finance private-equity deals.
The new fund aims to complement existing public and private sector finance schemes available in Scotland, providing loan guarantees and equity finance alongside co-investment partners.
They offer a lucid explanation of how the debt markets evolved from junk bonds to securitised loans, changing the types of deals that private-equity firms were able to finance.
Last year revelations emerged that McClendon had borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from private equity groups and other investors to finance his share of drilling costs under the drilling program.
Major Yandex institutional shareholders include Tiger Global, Baring Vostok Private Equity Funds, Roth Advisors and International Finance Group.
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The idea that using borrowed money to buy assets is the smart road to riches might lose currency, changing attitudes to home ownership as well as to parts of the finance sector such as private equity.
In his day job, Frey is a principal at a private equity firm, so his tales of high finance and low chicanery come from the perspective of a guy who's been there.
Frederic Malek, a private-equity executive and important Republican donor who serves as the finance chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said he hadn't thought about Mr. Christie's health.
We included only contributions from commercial banks, the securities and investment industry (which includes private equity companies, hedge funds and venture capital firms) and finance and credit card companies.
Tensions within Austria's grand coalition of Socialists and the centre-right People's Party are running high as the political and industrial elite, led by Hannes Androsch, a former finance minister, discusses the establishment of a private-equity fund to protect Austrian companies from foreign takeovers.
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Better still, banks wanting to sell their fund-management arms can lend private-equity firms the money to buy them. (Barclays originally arranged such a deal for a sale of iShares, although that has been abandoned in favour of selling the lion's share of BGI.) That is good news for the private-equity firms, which are finding it hard to get debt finance elsewhere.
In private equity, for example, much of the money that was borrowed to finance the buyouts of big companies from 2005-7 has to be paid back in the coming year.
Chrysler's owner, private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, also owns 51% of GM's finance arm, GMAC.
Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance.
To finance their ambitions the Singhs are going beyond their bankers, talking to private equity investors and considering a future listing.
Emerging economies have been strikingly successful in raising equity finance in the form of foreign direct investment, which accounted for almost half of the private capital they imported in 2005.
These GIIRS Pioneer Investors are a diverse group of global private equity investors and credit providers, including mainstream global financial institutions, foundations, family offices, leaders in social finance, and a multilateral development bank.
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