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Video game maker Electronic Arts is being sold to a group of private investors in a deal that values the company at $55 billion. It's the biggest leverage buyout on record.
AGOURA HILLS, CALIFORNIA, Feb. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MultiCorp International, Inc. (OTC Markets PINK: MCIC) and 40 Brightwater LLC are pleased to announce their current discussions to purchase an initial $25,000,000 (twenty-five million USD) in Bitcoin utilizing a leveraged buy-out structure funded through Edwards Capital N.A. LLC's correspondent bank loan.
The private equity market will likely drive IPO volumes higher than 2024, but the strength of the PE market could cap the size of deals brought to the market. Activity in the US IPO market started off as a trickle, but a flurry of activity in the last week of January brought the YTD total to $3.6 billion. The weighted average equity price performance of U.S. IPOs by sector shows that every sector was higher on average by day 50 post-issuance, with information technology being the highest at 30.7%.
As the global private equity industry took tentative steps toward recovery in 2024, Japan raced ahead. The value of private equity investment in Japan jumped nearly 41% over the prior-year total in 2024, far outpacing the 25% year-over-year gain in global private equity deal value, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data.
Private capital – encompassing private equity and private credit – is in the midst of a bit of a renaissance at the moment. IPO activity hit a peak in 2021, the year after the pandemic and then promptly plunged to levels not seen in years.
The industry closed out November maintaining its pace of growth, rolling out another dozen new ETFs during the week. The launches included products from Goldman Sachs, Innovator, SP Funds, Counterpoint, YieldMax, Aztlan, and ETF newcomer Macquarie.
Leveraged-finance bankers are nursing a headache after one hell of a party. The average price of U.S. high-yield bonds fell as much as 16% between January and early July, according to the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index.
The $30 billion buyout of family-owned medical supplies giant Medline Industries underscores how the world's richest families are striking massive deals with private equity giants to go global.