This paper attempts to assist fellow leveraged buyout researchers understand nuanced details of corporate finance and leveraged buyouts, in particular. Given Haque, Jang, and Mayer (2022) is produced by esteemed colleagues at prestigious intuitions (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve...

This paper presents integrated financial statements for a sample of large leveraged buyouts of publicly traded U.S. firms by private equity funds for a seven year window beginning three years prior to, and ending four years after, the leveraged buyout. The exposition is such that researchers and...

Do leveraged buyout transactions increase the chance of bankruptcy? While corporate finance theory predicts that such sharp changes in capital structure increase financial distress costs by raising the probability of bankruptcy for each company, previous studies seem to fail to find any...