World & Nation
When the senior managers of Fort Howard Corp. decided to take the paper-products company private in a highly leveraged deal last month, they turned to Bankers Trust New York Corp. to arrange most of the financing.
July 6, 1988
Money & Company
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April 28, 2010
Business
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman David S.
Oct. 28, 1988
Acquisitions: A financing strategy that was dominant in the 1980s could be making a comeback.
Sept. 23, 2002
The announcement Thursday that RJR Nabisco’s managers may seek to take the giant consumer products company private in the nation’s largest takeover quickly rekindled a controversy over the merits of the deals called leveraged buyouts, which have steadily increased over the last decade.
Oct. 21, 1988
More than a decade after Tribune Co. went private in a leveraged buyout that saddled the Los Angeles Times’ then-owner with $13 billion in debt and led to its bankruptcy, Sam Zell and dozens of former executives have agreed to pay $200 million to settle a lawsuit brought by unsecured creditors.
June 14, 2019
Private equity’s decade-long debt binge is coming back to haunt it when it comes to obtaining the U.S. government’s coronavirus aid.
April 23, 2020
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said Saturday that he believes the number of leveraged buyouts of companies has started to subside, but a panel of business experts disagreed, contending that many more large companies would be takeover targets.
May 14, 1989
The $11-billion proposal by Philip Morris to take over Kraft Inc. and the $17-billion tentative leveraged-buyout plan by which the managers of RJR Nabisco hope to become the owners of that vast tobacco and food conglomerate are attracting substantial attention.
Oct. 22, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Want a prime example of how the corporate leveraged-buyout craze went overboard in the late 1980s?
May 14, 1992