Definition of Leveraged buyout

1. Noun. A buyout using borrowed money; the target company's assets are usually security for the loan. "A leveraged buyout by upper management can be used to combat hostile takeover bids"

Specialized synonyms: Bust-up Takeover
Generic synonyms: Buyout

Definition of Leveraged buyout

1. Noun. (business) A transaction in which a business firm, or a controlling share of a firm, is purchased using money which was borrowed by pledging all or some of the firm's assets as collateral. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Leveraged buyout

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hostile Corporate Takeover: How, What, Where, When and Why (1991)
"Uniroyal management agreed to undertake a leveraged buyout in concert with Clayton and Dubilier Inc. for $836 million ($22 per share). ..."

2. Financial Markets for the Rest of Us: An Easy Guide to Money, Bonds, Futures by Robert Vahid Hashemian (2001)
"There is yet another kind of acquisition, more popular in the 1980s, known as leveraged buyout (LBO), in which often a public company may become private. ..."

3. Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing (1993)
"... off a potential takeover, such as taking the company private by means of a leveraged buyout (LBO), or implementing some kind of "poison pill" defense. ..."

4. Case Studies of Selected Leveraged Buyouts (1991)
"... to prepare case studies that provide information about companies that had experienced a leveraged buyout (LBO) or had survived an attempted takeover. ..."

5. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997: The National Data Book by United States Government Printing Office, United States Department Of Commerce (1879)
"leveraged buyout: acquisition or a business in which buyers use mostly borrowed money to finance purchase price and incorporate debt into capital structure ..."

6. Guide to Responsible Restructuring by DIANE Publishing Company, Wayne F. Cascio (1995)
"On October 1,, through a $6.5 million leveraged buyout, 200 former IBM employees formed Advanced Technological Solutions, Inc. (ATS) and assumed ownership ..."

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