When PE firms push each other to the limit, the buyer often lives to regret it. Insignia Financial is a fascinating test.

One of the most common forms of private equity investment is a leveraged buyout (LBO), which involves the private equity fund borrowing money to acquire a business. Similar to distressed funding ...

While performance rankings exist for many other sectors, there has never been an equivalent for private equity, until now. Previous rankings for PE were based on size alone, which offered limited ...

Over the last 15 years, private equity (“PE”) firms have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the healthcare sector, infiltrating every ...

“Leveraged buyout” was a popular term in the 1980s “before some marketing genius fastened on ‘private equity’ as a way to disguise the fact that the business still rests on a mountain of ...

Dividend recapitalization, when a private company pays its investors a cash dividend with borrowed money, surged to a record ...