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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 and GIC declined to comment....
...Vista used a similar manoeuvre in its $4.6bn sale of events planning software company Cvent to Blackstone in March....
...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...
...But Vista held Finastra in an older fund with little dry powder, forcing it to rely on financial engineering....
...As the summer progressed, Vista pushed lenders to keep pitching proposals that would keep it from putting in any extra cash. But it ultimately relented. Vista declined to comment....
...Vista declined to comment....
...Just as Stollmeyer was pledging his allegiance to Vista, Mindbody’s banker was greasing the wheels for Vista’s victory in the auction....
...freezing order against Gupta’s Liberty House (FT) Atom takes valuation hit as it raises £100mn in new equity (FT) India tightens foreign investor rules after Hindenburg report on Adani (FT) Blackstone and Vista...
...Nineteen years later, with hundreds of aircraft, the 63-year-old is an aviation superstar taking on the market leader, Berkshire Hathaway’s NetJets, through audacious dealmaking and bold investment....
...Regional aviation group Surf Air Mobility went public through a direct listing on Thursday at less than half the valuation it received in a private transaction last month, in a deal that highlighted the...
...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, Elliott and Vista declined to comment....
...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...
...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....
...Gates’s biggest UK investments, for example, have been in retailer Carpetright, jet servicing group Signature Aviation and Bunzl, a distributor of disposable cutlery....
...Morgan Stanley led a $1bn credit facility for Blackstone’s $4.6bn acquisition of Cvent, which is majority owned by Vista Equity Partners....
...Vista declined to comment. Shareholders in some publicly listed software companies have put up resistance to the takeover prices being offered for their investments....
...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....
...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...
...BofA, Credit Suisse, Vista and Elliott declined to comment....
...To support the gargantuan debt sale, Elliott contributed more than $2bn in cash while Vista merged its already leveraged Tibco software business at a more than $4bn valuation....
...The failure is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration, with New Shepard grounded until the investigation is over....
...Last year, Vista bid on Blue Prism, a robotics automation software company, before dropping out of the takeover effort....
...Its vista of thin apartment blocks makes it redolent of Hong Kong, a place that Britain returned to its previous owner....
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