Alliance Boots Reverses Debt Binge to Expand: Corporate Finance Alliance Boots GmbH (AB/) , the pharmacy company that loaded up on debt in a 11.1 billion pound ($17.4 billion) leveraged buyout before the credit crisis, is now seeking success by cutting borrowing as it expands globally.
June 17, 2013 - Bloomberg
LBO Loans Jump as Fees Double Average Worth Risk: China Credit Chinese banks extended at least $8.3 billion in loans for acquisitions and leveraged buyouts this year, seeking to generate new business as a bond-market boom cut syndicated lending to a four-year low.
June 14, 2013 - Bloomberg
Fitch: Aggressive Leveraged Finance Market Not Reminiscent of Prior Cycle Peak in 2006-07 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: U.S. Leveraged Finance and the Credit Cycle (Do Signs Point to a Return to the "LBO Boom" Days?)http://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=707817 The ongoing increase in leverage finance issuance and other related factors do not indicate that a return to the leveraged buyout (LBO) boom days of 2006-07 is ...
June 10, 2013 - Business Wire