Who Leveraged Buyouts?
Who Leveraged Buyouts? In fact, it is Posner who is often credited with coining the term “leveraged buyout” or “LBO.” The leveraged buyout boom of the 1980s was conceived in the 1960s by a number of corporate financiers, most notably Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. and later his protégé Henry Kravis. Who does leveraged buyout? A leveraged