David Toll

Debate continues to rage over whether buyout firms are somehow cheating on their deals. Are they stealing companies from hapless shareholders? Are they colluding on large transactions in a blatant violation of anti-trust laws?  And if not, how else can the enormous profits so many buyout firms generate be explained? All are interesting questions that […]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, advised Polonius in Hamlet, but that hasn’t stopped banks from doing both—even, of late, in the same transaction.  In the latest edition of Buyouts Magazine, Senior Editor Ari Nathanson reports on a little-noted aspect of the giant Clear Channel LBO agreed to last month. Along with providing debt […]