Asia leveraged finance: Institutional aspirations
PE firms can obtain financing for leveraged buyouts in Asia on increasingly favorable terms, but this doesn’t necessarily point to institutionalization – or at least, not yet. For now, banks still lead the way
Australia’s leveraged buyout market changed comprehensively – and perhaps permanently – last summer when Pacific Equity Partners and The Carlyle Group acquired iNova Pharmaceuticals for $930 million....
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