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...Since GIC ditched its holdings in Vista, the sovereign wealth fund has co-invested with other private equity firms in deals in which Vista also participated, a person familiar with the matter said....
...Vista, which retained an 81 per cent stake in Cvent after floating it in 2021, agreed to roll $1.25bn into the buyout through a preferred equity investment to boost the sale price....
...Since GIC ditched its holdings in Vista, the sovereign wealth fund has co-invested with other private equity firms in deals in which Vista also participated, said a person familiar with the matter....
...The new conditions will test industry giants such as Blackstone and Carlyle, and dozens of fast-growing firms including Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity Partners and Platinum Equity, which have seen their assets...
...Last month, Vista Equity Partners used the proceeds of a NAV loan to pump $1bn into financial technology company Finastra, one of the big refinancings in leveraged finance markets....
...Vista, for its part, structured its $1bn investment as preferred equity, making the new money senior to Finastra common stock....
...Vista declined to comment....
...(FT) India tightens foreign investor rules after Hindenburg report on Adani (FT) Blackstone and Vista Equity to buy software firm Energy Exemplar (Reuters) Six Flags, Cedar Fair near merger deal (Wall...
...Mindbody, Stollmeyer’s software business that powered the systems of gyms and fitness studios, announced just before Christmas 2018 that it had a deal to sell itself to Vista Equity Partners....
...At the PE conference in Berlin, Robert Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners, called on business leaders to help resolve the tensions....
...Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Credit Suisse and 30 other lenders on Tuesday sold $3.84bn of junior bonds backing Elliott Management and Vista Equity Partners’ $16.5bn buyout of Citrix....
...Ospreys and wedge-tailed eagles rise on high thermals above; southern right whales sometimes pass offshore....
...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...
...Morgan Stanley led a $1bn credit facility for Blackstone’s $4.6bn acquisition of Cvent, which is majority owned by Vista Equity Partners....
...More than a dozen banks were forced to put up their own cash to fund Vista Equity Partners and Elliott Management’s takeover of Citrix after investors balked at financing the debt package....
...Coupa had been in late-stage talks with software buyout firm Vista Equity Partners until Thoma Bravo came in with a higher price, according to sources familiar with the matter....
...Elliott’s power has grown in recent years as Cohn has built an internal private equity unit and cultivated relationships with buyout giants such as Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity and Veritas Capital....
...“I think it’s a very convenient loss of memory,” Eagle said....
...Banks in September were only able to sell a fraction of the debt tied to Elliott Management and Vista Equity Partners’s $16.5bn leveraged buyout of software maker Citrix, and ended up holding $6.45bn of...
...Interest was so scant that one of the investors to buy $1bn worth of the bonds was Elliott Management — which along with Vista Equity Partners is also one of the two private investment groups buying out...
...For private equity groups like Vista, which rely on banks’ fundraising machinery to buy up bits of corporate America, rockier credit markets will cap the size of buyouts....
...Private equity buyers such as Thoma Bravo and its competitor Vista Equity have also begun targeting UK-based technology companies, which trade at lower multiples than their US counterparts....
...There was one big difference on Monday between software sector rivals Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity....
...Eagle, Idaho-based Lamb Weston is one of the world’s biggest producers of frozen potato products, like the french fries you can find in your local supermarket....
...They include Warburg Pincus, Bain Capital, General Atlantic and Vista Equity Partners....
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