Twitter

PE firms are turning to social media, podcasts and online branding to engage investors and keep up with the competition.

January 27, 2025

Strategic Owners

Bigger Than Musk’s X Takeover, Seven & i’s Proposal to Rank Among Top Buyout Deals

A successful deal would surpass what KKR and TPG Capital paid to take over Energy Future Holdings Corp.

November 13, 2024

Lenders & Private Credit

Leveraged Loans Are Next to Face Higher-for-Longer Rates Stress

The current higher rate environment is putting pressure on corporate balance sheets, and debt interest coverage has been deteriorating.

April 18, 2024

SPACs

Bill Ackman Interested in a Deal to Take Elon Musk’s X Public

Pershing Square received regulatory approval for a new investment vehicle targeting private companies seeking to raise $1.5 billion or more, and could potentially take them public.

October 2, 2023

Lenders & Private Credit

Musk’s xAI Reportedly in Market for $5B Loan

Morgan Stanley is heading up the offering, but not committing its own capital unlike it did with Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.

June 10, 2025

Technology

OpenAI Eyes Chrome If Google Is Forced to Sell

The DOJ argues Google holds monopolistic control over the search market.

April 23, 2025

Financial services

Banks Notch Up LBO Deal Wins from Private Credit Firms

Direct lenders are still able to offer larger amounts of debt to equity in deals, but banks are now better able to compete on pricing.

July 19, 2023

Private Equity

French Billionaire Pinault Reportedly in Talks to Buy CAA Talent Agency in $7B Deal

CAA has long been one of the premier power brokers in Hollywood, though the so-called superagents later left for new ventures.

July 14, 2023

Lenders & Private Credit

Banks Line Up $9.4 Billion of Debt for GTCR’s Worldpay Takeover

It’s the largest buyout financing since Wall Street agreed to lend $13 billion to help fund Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter last year.

July 7, 2023

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