No. 12, "speculative areas beyond housing may suffer in 2007, " has commenced with the evaporation of the asset-backed commercial paper market last summer and the drying up of private equity financing.
The authors conclude that policymakers may have been barking up some wrong trees, chafing at the provincialism of syndicated bank loans, for example, while missing out on how integrated private-equity financing has become.
Schulze has indicated that he is in discussions with potential private equity partners and debt financing sources, but has not disclosed such to the Board.
Rising debt multiples and falling financing costs has allowed private equity firms to pay more for properties.
It also bulked up its capital late last year by selling 35% of its U.S. auto-financing business to private-equity firms.
In large part this is due to private equity shops taking advantage of the cheap financing to undertake huge deals.
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Still, he sees vast potential unfolding over the next few years, pointing out that private equity represents only about 5 percent of the financing available for emerging companies.
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The sector became more popular over the past few years after catching the eye of a growing number of private-equity investors and entrepreneurs who, armed with cheap financing and dwindling options for high-yielding investments, started bidding up properties.
In the recent past, the only thing that kept private equity from gobbling up large public companies was a lack of available financing, especially of the riskier sub-investment-grade variety following the 2008 financial crisis.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC): As you know, OPIC provides such assistance as financing and political risk insurance that enables companies and private equity funds to support infrastructure projects and other investments in developing countries.
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Senior private equity players from Blackstone and KKR said the stable economic outlook and availability of financing have the buyout industry back in the swing of things and only the lack of the right opportunity is preventing deal sizes from climbing.
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Up to now, financing of China outbound deals have been dominated by cash-rich players, including private equity and sovereign wealth giants in addition to state-owned Enterprises.
Since General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) announced the sale of a 51% share in General Motors Acceptance to a private equity group, some have speculated that Ford could sell all or part of its Ford Motor Credit financing arm.
According to the Associated Press, one anonymous insider said the private equity firms sought to squash the deal over questions about Harman's financial health, not because of any financing difficulties in a tight credit market.
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