(The stock is currently at $67.67.) At $32 billion, it's already the biggest proposed leveraged buyout in history.

Yet interviews in recent days with debt-market specialists suggest that KKR & Co. could find a narrow path to finance what would be the biggest leveraged buyout in history: a potential take ...

Yet interviews in recent days with debt-market specialists suggest that KKR & Co. could find a narrow path to finance what would be the biggest leveraged buyout in history: a potential take ...

When the $32 billion leveraged buyout of TXU was announced a week ago today, the buyers -- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group -- made pulling off the deal look easy, with the apparent ...

Carlyle Group LP’s $8 billion purchase of Symantec Corp.’s data-management business shows big buyouts can still happen. The deal announced Tuesday was the largest private-equity takeover of a ...

Today a $10bn LBO would likely still have to come to the public loan and bond markets. Before long, all but the very largest LBOs might tap the private credit market. What is gained, and lost ...

In recent weeks, Dell made headlines with a proposed transaction that would take the company private and last week finalized details on what would be the largest LBO since 2007. As is typically ...

And so, the pure-LBO drought continues. A number of factors have hampered big deals in the wake of the financial crisis. Loans for big deals were scarce in the wake of the market plummet and big ...

LBO credits across the two other middle-market tiers ended 2013 on a weaker note after seeing more private equity action earlier in 2013. LBO loans in the $201-350 million tier totaled $3.16 ...

Lenders will only tiptoe back, meaning deals need the big checks and extra elbow grease in credit markets that favor the largest private equity firms. The watchword is leverage. Private equity ...

And on a percentage change basis, the ETF with the biggest increase in inflows was the LBO ETF, which added 60,000 units, for a 40.0% increase in outstanding units. BNK Invest Inc. provides ...

Despite the challenges of the past year, the LBO gears are grinding back to life. On Thursday, CVC Capital Partners closed its European and Americas Fund IX at $29 billion, making it the largest ...