KKR's Europe co-head Philipp Freise discusses the firm's largest-ever European buyout fund, giving the investment firm ammunition for deals at a time when private equity is navigating volatile markets. KKR raised fresh commitments...

Nate Taylor, KKR's co-head of Americas private equity, says KKR is a big believer in value creation and sees investment opportunities in North America. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets." KKR closed KKR North America Fund XIII, an...

Christina Minnis, Goldman Sachs head of global acquisition finance and co-head of global credit finance, says she expects the M&A boom to carry over into 2022 and says the size and scale of transactions occurring in acquisition finance...

March 2 -- Howard Davidowitz, chairman at Davidowitz & Associates, and Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO, examine the Chapter 11 filing by Sports Authority and the potential for more bankruptcies in the retail industry. He...

Dec.03 -- Equity returns on the riskiest piece of collateralized loan obligations are set to come in at their lowest since at least 2013, a far cry from the heady double-digit payouts seen in recent years. Bloomberg's Sonali Basak, Adam...

Jan.16 -- First Data Corp. bonds soared amid expectations that its acquisition by Fiserv Inc. will lift the payments processing firm’s debt out of junk-rated indexes. Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz reports on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close."

Aug.10 -- Elon Musk tweeted on Tuesday about the prospect of taking Tesla Inc. private at $420 per share. Bloomberg's David Welch and University of Chicago Booth School Professor Steve Kaplan examine the events that followed Musk's tweet...

Nov.11 -- KKR & Co. has formally approached drugstore giant Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. about a deal to take the company private, in what could be the biggest-ever leveraged buyout, people familiar with the matter said. Bloomberg's...

Jun.24 -- Blackstone Global Head of Private Equity Joseph Baratta sees an "enormous amount" of deal activity across all of the company's investment spaces and says he's optimistic about Blackstone's ability to deploy capital at scale. He...

Feb.15 -- A record-sized bond issue to fund the leveraged buyout of Asda Group Ltd. has resuscitated the sterling high-yield market. Bloomberg’s Laura Benitez reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.”

Sept. 29 -- On todays The Roundup, Bloomberg's Olivia Sterns, Mia Saini, Jeffrey McCracken and Eric Chemi wrap up the days top market stories on Bloomberg Televisions Street Smart. (Source: Bloomberg)

Dec. 15: PetSmart has agreed to be purchased by BC Partners for $8.3 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal for a U.S. company this year.

Blackstone Credit Global CIO Michael Zawadzki discusses the state of the private credit market and M&A activity with Ed Hammond at JPMorgan's 2023 Global High Yield and Leveraged Finance Conference in Miami.



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Jun.23 -- Blackstone Group Inc. CEO Stephen Schwarzman says the risk of an increase in U.S. capital gains taxes has led to an "avalanche" of potential targets for his alternative investment firm. "People want to sell things before their...

Apr.27 -- With buyouts at a virtual standstill, private equity firms are finding a new place to put their billions of dollars: investing in public companies that have been pummeled by the coronavirus economic collapse. Bloomberg's...

Nov.05 -- Leon Kalvaria, Citigroup chairman of the institutional clients group, discusses the outlook for the corporate and high-yield debt markets with Bloomberg's Sonali Basak on "Bloomberg Markets."