Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | USA | 1 Dec 2022
The year started off strong in the early weeks, but following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, coupled with inflationary pressures, supply…
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP | USA | 23 Dec 2020
Business headlines have warned of a potential "chilling effect on buyouts" as a result of the decision recently issued by the U.S. District Court for…
Jones Day | USA | 11 Dec 2020
In the latest chapter of more than a decade of contentious litigation surrounding the 2007 leveraged buyout ("LBO") and ensuing bankruptcy of media…
White & Case | European Union | 17 Feb 2020
An almost 25 per cent drop in European M&A deal value to €642 billion in 2019 on the previous year, according to Mergermarket data, saw leveraged loan…
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP | USA | 6 Feb 2020
Introduction In February 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion that, at first blush, appeared to severely curtail the scope of the transferee…
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP | USA | 20 May 2019
Last year, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Merit,1 unanimously ruling that a buyout transaction between private parties did not qualify for…
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | European Union, USA | 17 Apr 2019
In its recent assessment of the European loan syndication sector from an antitrust perspective, the European Commission did not find specific…
Travers Smith LLP | European Union, United Kingdom, USA | 27 Mar 2019
This briefing note is informed by analysis of the transactions on which we advised during 2018, together with other publically reported transactions…
White & Case | European Union, United Kingdom, USA | 12 Feb 2019
The European leveraged finance market paused for breath in 2018 after two feverish years, but a combination of new money issuances for LBOs and the…
Hogan Lovells | Global | 22 Nov 2018
EBITDA first rose to prominence in the US leveraged buy-out craze of the 1980s and has since formed the key metric of leveraged finance transactions…