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...Marquee funds that once prized exclusivity, such as Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, have raised funds of as much as $5bn and sometimes as large as $9bn....
...“There have been fewer LBOs and therefore less new loan volume,” said Michael Patterson, a governing partner at asset manager HPS Investment Partners....
...Earlier this year KKR agreed to pump new capital into one of its portfolio companies, Heartland Dental, to help it refinance a portion of its debt....
...Banks have been unable to sell debt from several marquee leveraged buyouts, including Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter and Apollo’s $7.1bn purchase of auto parts maker Tenneco....
...For example, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley’s marquee venture group, has sought to raise about $7bn this year across a series of funds investing in the US and Asia....
...Marquee names such as Ares, Apollo and Blackstone might compete for an acquisition and then end up as partners in the debt financing....
...Any “clawbacks” that Apollo may eventually face as a result of the market turmoil would probably be shared between hundreds of partners and employees....
...Flint Global has hired Stephen Kinsella as a specialist partner....
...But most concede that, while rising demand for TV shows has resulted in bumper paychecks for marquee names, the incomes of rank-and-file writers have not kept pace....
...Perella Weinberg Partners, Simpson Thacher and Munger, Tolles & Olsen advised Oaktree, while Weil Gotshal and Tory’s advised Brookfield....
...JPMorgan and Guggenheim Partners, who are advised Disney in the takeover process, are estimated to make $27.5m in fees each, according to the same filing....
...Verizon in its $130bn acquisition of Vodafone’s stake in Verizon in 2013 $87.4bn Charter in its acquisition on Time Warner Cable in 2016 $89bn Walt Disney in its planned acquisition of 21st Century Fox marquee...
...Centerview Partners, which jumped from 21st to fifth in the ranking, was the only boutique investment bank to make it into the top 10....
...Centerview Partners and Qatalyst Partners, two specialist US-based merger advisers, have cracked the highest tier of US investment banks, according to an analysis of deal fees by the Financial Times....
...However, revenues from live music in the UK fell 2 per cent to £3.7bn due to the closure of smaller "grass roots" venues such as the Marquee Club and the Astoria in London....
...“As a result, we may see a number of new funds launched by marquee managers in Q4 2013 and Q1 2014.”...
...In 2008, private equity firm Providence Equity Partners acquired WTC. The challenge....
...Private equity groups have lost out against industrial buyers in Europe in several large transactions in the past few months, including US dental group’s Dentsply International’s $1.8bn acquisition of rival...
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