A leveraged buyout (LBO) occurs when one company acquires another using debt as the means to complete the acquisition. LBOs allow companies to purchase other companies without tying up significant ...

A leveraged buyout is a generic term for the use of leverage to buy out a company. The buyer can be the current management, the employees, or a private equity firm.

Some investors have been bullish on Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY ) being a prime target for a leveraged buyout. However, the company’s LBO at a meaningful premium to the current levels ...

If management at U.S. pipeline giant Kinder Morgan Inc. can structure a leveraged buyout to take the company private in a deal valued at $22-billion (U.S.), can a similar transaction take place in ...

OTTAWA (Jun 21, 2008) - A chronology of the takeover of BCE Inc. by an investor group led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan: ...

GFL Environmental Inc. is transforming itself into a North American giant by acquiring U.S.-based Waste Industries for $3.65-billion, including debt.

“There was pent-up demand to transact,” Michael Arougheti said in an interview with the Financial Times. “Now that you’ve got ...

Michael Dell's offer to take Dell Inc <DELL.O> private for $24.4 billion should be blocked because the leveraged buyout is unfair to the struggling computer company's stockholders, according ...

Buyout firms Vista Equity Partners and Thoma Bravo LLC have made offers that failed to meet Solera's valuation expectations, the people said. Solera is now trying to sell itself to another company ...