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Sources of Capital - Buyout Funds
by Kenneth H. Marks, Larry E. Robbins, Gonzalo Fernandez, John P. Funkhouser and D. L. Sonny Williams, 5/26/2010
BUYOUT FUNDS
A leveraged buyout (LBO) is an acquisition of a company or division of another company financed with a substantial portion of borrowed funds. In the 1980s, LBO firms and their professionals were the focus of considerable attention, not all of it favorable. LBO activity accelerated throughout the 1980s, starting from a basis of four deals with an aggregate value of $1.7 billion in 1980 and reaching its peak in 1988, when 410 buyouts were completed with an aggregate value of $188 billion.
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