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Limited reliance on leverage is helping sustain deal activity despite elevated borrowing costs, but longer diligence periods and unprepared sellers are slowing transactions.
The firm is looking for third-party capital to supplement the more than $10 billion of balance sheet cash that it has already set aside for its private credit strategy.
The move will allow Drahi to focus more on his fast-growing U.S. business. He bought Suddenlink in 2015 and Cablevision in 2016 with a plan to create another U.S. cable giant.
Private equity-owned companies are again raising debt to pay their owners dividends, just as warnings sound about saddling businesses with more leverage in the midst of a downturn.
Today’s competitive market conditions make it difficult for private equity firms to buy companies at the right price, says Mark Sullivan, a partner at Lineage Capital.