Hints and tips:
...Vista used a similar manoeuvre in its $4.6bn sale of events planning software company Cvent to Blackstone in March....
...The group’s shareholders should gear up for a fight with Silver Lake and Emanuel, Lex argues....
...Specialised buyout groups such as Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners have in recent months turned to private lenders and large equity backers such as sovereign wealth funds to assemble financing packages...
...At the PE conference in Berlin, Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, called on business leaders to help resolve the tensions....
...Morgan Stanley led a $1bn credit facility for Blackstone’s $4.6bn acquisition of Cvent, which is majority owned by Vista Equity Partners....
...Vista is to acquire a 2.3 per cent stake at the same valuation....
...Thoma Bravo’s assets have catapulted above Vista’s....
...Equity Partners and Silver Lake....
...For Silver Lake’s Egon Durban, it was a make-or-break moment, as he bet big on the recovery of some hard-hit companies....
...Earlier this month, fellow US private equity firms Vista Equity Partners and Silver Lake announced their own investments into Jio, at $1.5bn and $750m respectively, with an April deal by Facebook for a bumper...
...Private equity firms that lack the scale or desire to go public — including Silver Lake, Vista and Providence — have each sold stakes in recent years to one firm, Dyal Capital, a unit of money manager Neuberger...
...A bid backed by Silver Lake is the frontrunner in an $18bn-plus auction for Toshiba’s flash memory business....
...Among the largest of these are: Vista Equity Partners’s $6.4bn acquisition of software maker Solera; Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo’s takeover of SolarWinds; and Pamplona Capital Management’s deal to buy MedAssets...
...The filing says the wrong number was passed on to Vista and Bidder B, but because Vista can conduct its own diligence and their lawyers seem to have grasped the correct share count number, so it is possible...
...The massive “Roof Ridge of Frederiksborg Castle with View of Lake, Town and Forest” is audaciously composed of three-quarters sky, with horizontal lines of fields, lake, roofs punctuated by the shooting...
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