Laura Benitez
@lauralevfinance
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Reporter @Bloomberg. Views are my own
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Joined December 2014
NEW: Private equity dealmakers are being told to put more of their own assets on the line -- including homes and art collections -- as they struggle to wring cash from their increasingly wary backers. Today's @Bloomberg Big Take via @markets
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NEW: A London-based investment firm backed by a trust of Russian tycoon Boris Mints, is carving out a niche in arranging financing for the kinds of deals that traditional lenders tend to avoid. Story here w/@ManySundays @JackSidders via @business
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"A lot of the people who are hosed by these maneuvers instead say “I had better start doing these maneuvers to hose everyone else instead,” and an ecosystem of mutual one-upmanship develops". A great take from @matt_levine on our piece about capital (sometimes violent) solutions.
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RT @nishantkumar07: THE BIG TAKE: Hedge funds smell blood as lenders are pitted against each other in so-called “creditor on-creditor viole…
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Creditor on creditor violence has reached such a pitch that funds are wagering tens of billions to capitalize on the mayhem. It's also been a decade in the making. The Big Take, with @ElizaHannon, @nishantkumar07, Reshmi Basu, edited by @jiboxell
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RT @nishantkumar07: Hamza Lemssouguer’s hedge fund shrugged off a mediocre first half with gains of about 7% in July. At $5.2 billion, he n…
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RT @dscigliuzzo: The golden age doesn't look so golden at Prospect Capital, an $8 billion private credit fund that's facing a surge in borr…
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RT @ArashMassoudi: “They’ve really been trying to be this respected investor” in Europe, said one person who has worked with Mubadala. “It’…
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RT @gmorpurgo: More details of Thames Water debt trading, who sold at and which cost, with @lauralevfinance & @ManySundays
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RT @bpolitics: Russia is releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan in a major multi-country…
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RT @loukia_g: New: UK fund manager Terry Smith is moving his huge car collection, which includes a rare McLaren F1, to Mauritius after a la…
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RT @samjoiner: NEW: How private equity tangled banks in debt. Our visual story tackles GPs, LPs, subscription lines and more, using a netw…
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RT @nishantkumar07: Sam Bankman-Fried goes to jail and hedge fund Diameter does well. Buying up FTX claims after its collapse is set to be…
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RT @allisonmcneely: Our deep dive on Clearlake Capital Group, the California-based private equity firm known outside financial circles for…
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RT @cynthiao: Follow me and @FTAlphaville down a pink-slime coated rabbit hole into the Wild West of the internet - complete with AI genera…
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RT @BondHack: Stumbled across this last night. The (recent) past may be another country, but this is like a despatch from another universe.…
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NEW: Billionaire Bernard Arnault is bidding on a storied Venice hotel, one of the trophy assets put on the market in the messy fallout from the implosion of Rene Benko’s Signa Group. W/@arascouet, @LibbyCherry98 and team via @markets
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NEW: John Aylward's Sona Asset Management has raised $800 million for capital solutions, in a bid to provide custom financing to businesses struggling to access cash. It's the latest firm to capitalize on the retreat by conventional banks. via @business
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RT @dawnmlim: When Blackstone put some student dorms up for sale, it worked behind the scenes to make the BREIT deal more attractive to buy…
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