LBOs: Winners and Losers in the Buyout Game

by Robert Benjamin

Corporate mergers and leveraged buyouts (LBOs) occurred at a frenzied pace in 2006, rivaling the record-setting year of 2000 and contributing to the stock market’s substantial gains last year. More than a quarter of these transactions involved private-equity firms seeking to profit by taking publicly traded companies private.

And so far this year, LBOs are continuing at the same frenetic pace.

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For investors, there have been winners and there have been losers in this unprecedented increase in private-equity activity. In general, high-yield bond investors have benefited from the buy-out boom, public stockholders have seen limited gains, and investment-grade bondholders have been perhaps the most at risk from the overnight downgrading of their holdings.

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