Sentence examples for value of buyouts from inspiring English sources

According to Initiative Europe, a private-equity research company, the value of buyouts that were backed by private equity in Europe shot up 27.2% between 1997 and 1998.

Deal making in general has been hampered by economic uncertainty, which also limited growth in the value of buyout firms' holdings.

Improving global markets and the continued availability of cheap debt have lifted the value of buyout firms' holdings and opened the door to continued deal-making.

As the stock and credit markets have risen, the value of buyout shops' holdings has risen, and their ability to strike deals for a variety of assets has improved as cheap financing remains readily available.

The value of British buyouts hit a record in the second quarter of this year, driven by large deals from overseas private equity investors, according to a report by KPMG.

The exact value of the buyout was not disclosed.

All told, the value of all the buyouts done and publicly disclosed last year was $61.9 billion, up from $40.9 billion in 1998.

Indeed, the global value of private equity buyouts bigger than $1 billion grew from $28 billion in 2000 to $502 billion in 2006, according to Dealogic, a firm that tracks acquisitions.

Mr. Weston's offer is also said to top the value of a management buyout arranged by the chief executive of Selfridges, Peter Williams, that is backed by the Blackstone Group.

And while the value of its core buyout funds grew 6 percent in the third quarter, far from the 18.5 percent growth at the same time last year, the firm said all but one of its funds are now above cost.

With an enterprise value of $10.5 billion, a buyout is quite digestible by pharma's bigger players.