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Christopher Flowers, a specialist in bank buy-outs, did just that, splashing out on a small Missouri lender and rebranding it Flowers Bank.

Overconsumption by US citizens, US buy-outs of foreign companies and dollars the Pentagon spends abroad all end up in foreign central banks.

As Cerberus has learned to its cost, it is hard to stay out of the spotlight with buy-outs of iconic companies.

In Asia at least, private-equity bets resemble early-stage growth investment rather than the leveraged buy-outs of the boom.

This week, banks gave up trying to sell to investors $20bn of debt related to the buy-outs of Chrysler and Alliance Boots.

Leveraged buy-outs usually take place in stable industries.

The bank became a leader in financing private equity buy-outs and lent heavily for commercial property deals.

Management Buy-outs (MBO), as a new type of leverage financing is widely used in foreign countries and has been widely recognized.

Nor, with the exception of commercial property and leveraged buy-outs, did the rich world's firms go on a debt binge.

But it will be tough for megafunds to deploy their capital unless debt markets are again prepared to finance $5bn-plus buy-outs.

Brazilian managers reel off the names of highly leveraged buy-outs that have tanked in the West.

About 30 per cent of its holdings were in loans used to finance KKR buy-outs.

That made possible the consumer spending to prop up earnings, and the capitalisation of those earnings through private equity buy-outs.

Since 2005 there have been at least 46 buy-outs of nursing-home operators worldwide, according to Dealogic, a research firm.

Even private equity firms and their reckless, highly leveraged buy-outs will not be spared.

Traditionally, leveraged buy-outs supported mature, cash-generative companies using debt.

But the investment banks, led by Goldman Sachs, have dramatically scaled up their commitments to leveraged buy-outs this year.

KKR has remained a prominent player in the industry, investing in some of the biggest leveraged buy-outs on record.

The third involves leveraged buy-outs, closely linking the interests of managers and shareholders and taking advantage of easy credit.

Investors are shying away from some loans being offered to finance leveraged buy-outs.

In addition, the tight conditions in credit markets had made it difficult for DIC's private equity arm to raise debt for company buy-outs.

The boom of recent years in mergers, acquisitions and leveraged buy-outs has been driving this growth in high-yield debt markets.

After that, state buy outs of property on flood plains left fewer residences in danger of future floods.

But the party ended as banks virtually stopped lending to leveraged buy-outs.

The rash of leveraged buy-outs may account for as much as half of the rise in American corporate net debt since 2002.

Facing a wave of allegations about corruption in privatisations, the government banned management buy-outs of large state- owned companies.

Regulators are averse to allowing western-style leveraged buy-outs.

Special Situations: Invests in event-driven situations such as mergers, hostile takeovers, reorganizations, or leveraged buy outs.

Private equity groups often use borrowed money to finance buy outs of publicly traded companies.

In the heady days of the 1980s, leveraged buy-outs relied on junk bonds.

It is one of the biggest recent buy-outs to face collapse because of credit woes.

In response, the government banned management buy-outs of large state enterprises.

True, the copious debt that made many leveraged buy-outs so lucrative is gone for now and many equity holdings will go to zero.

Buy-outs jumped from $77. 9bn in value to $144bn in the first nine months of the year.

But then very little private equity activity in China actually involves true buy-outs.

These are organisations that invest and manage investments and they tend to focus on management buy-outs and buy-ins.

Even with the buy-outs of bank and national debt since May last year, its own is scarcely 1 per cent of EU gross domestic product.

Does this signal the demise of big buy-outs in China?

They found it almost as hard to take part in buy-outs.

It is a big holder of "hung" leveraged loans and bonds, mostly related to buy-outs agreed on in the credit bubble.

Because management buy outs only starts in our country, and lacks relevant laws and regulations, and causes a lot of problems.

Buy-outs (combined with new investments or significant improvements through new shareholder structure)

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An Analysis of the Insiders Control Problem in Management Buy-outs

Management Buy-outs: a Mode of Withdrawing Venture Capital

On Buy-outs of Management Level

Buy outs of existing firms

On the Manager Buy-outs Under Present Market Enviroment in China

About the Implementation of Management Buy-Outs in China in the Enterprises of China