Leveraged Management Buyouts

Papers presented at a conference held at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, on May 20, 1988, and sponsored by the Salomon Brothers Center for the Study of Financial Institutions. The 1989 edition of this proceedings volume was published by Dow-Jones-Irwin. Academics, legis

An executive vice president at Wheat, First Securities, author Crawford shows how companies are selling out to management and investors in a transaction financed largely with debt. Here is a brief history and explanation of LBOs, discussing their risks and rewards, and providing the anatomy of a deal for an audience interested in the financial details. Describes and analyzes a number of actual leveraged buyouts.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Management Buyouts (MBOs) first came to prominence in the US during the early 1980s, and have subsequently become a global phenomenon and a highly significant transaction within the corporate restructuring landscape Although much recent attention has focused on private equity (PE) backed buyouts, these are only a subset of the total MBO market. The Routledge Companion to Management Buyouts takes a much broader definition, reviewing the current state of research and theory and where further developments are likely to occur and incorporating PE and non-PE backed buyouts, as well as variations such as management buy-ins and management-employee buyouts. It goes beyond the purely financial perspective, exploring the many different aspects of management buyouts and incorporating related disciplines including strategy, organizational change, and HRM providing the first truly comprehensive authoritative resource on the topic. Expertly edited, and drawing on international scholarship, this unique volume will be an invaluable sourcebook on MBOs for researchers and advanced students as well as those interested in the broader areas of corporate restructuring and ownership change.

What happens to companies that had been taken over through an LBO; how have they performed since the takeover; how have the communities been affected; what happened to companies that amassed tremendous debt to avoid being taken over? In order to address these questions in this report, case studies were done of the companies that experienced an LBO or a takeover attempt during the mid- to late 1980s. The assessment was based primarily on public documents and financial reports filed by the companies with the SEC.