How Private Equity Screens for LBO Candidates
- DTWalker & Associates
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: May 20, 2019
By Kateri Zhu / May 28, 2014
The leveraged buyout (“LBO“) has become well-practiced among private equity professionals, and is now standard industry practice as a means by which to acquire private companies.
Yet it can be used by any capital provider with the experience, credibility and business to secure the confidence from the financing sources required to execute an LBO.
The LBO gained prominence in the 1980’s thanks to Jerome Kohlberg and his associate, Henry Kravis. These two joined forces with the latter’s cousin, George Roberts, J.D., to conceive what would become a private equity triumvirate with the birth of their firm, KKR. Today over 2,800 private equity firms exist in the US alone, buying tens of thousands of companies each year... (the full article is available below)
How Private Equity Screens for LBO Candidates
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