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How rich people and companies they form can take a chance with global economy. Always with the assistance of fiscal institutions and banks. While adding millions to their banking concern accounts, little people non merely lose their jobs, their retirement savings. How they manipulate each other and tax laws. E'er finding a way to become around the laws to keep them straight.
In that way, basically the same as WalMart, McDonalds, or any other non-VC funded entrepreneurial venture.
Interesting history. Interesting analysis.
The weakest part o
More interesting to read this equally the story about founding a new enterprise. Lots of cold calls and unsuccessful meetings at the start - only like whatsoever other venture, followed by 20 years of hard work. After two decades of working hard, you become "discovered" past the media, and you are an "overnight success" (twenty years in the making).In that way, basically the same equally WalMart, McDonalds, or any other not-VC funded entrepreneurial venture.
Interesting history. Interesting assay.
The weakest part of the volume is the decision, where Morris defers to a bunch of studies past the "experts" that LBO/Private Capital letter do no damage, and under certain circumstances, aid the businesses that they buy. I would reminder Mr. Morris that those same "experts" besides rated the "top tranche" of sub-prime mortgage debt, AAA... They besides said "it's a new economy". They're never right about anything, so don't bother deferring to them. Just reason through with your own logic and assay.
The problem with LBO structures is the L - leverage. If they can come upwardly with the investment money on their own, then so be it, but leveraging upwards to purchase a business, which they have control of, refinance, and have the business pay off their leverage --- that'southward not "creative destruction", it's just "destruction".
If they can heighten the money to buy the companies, then go for it! More power too them.
If they want to take on leverage, it should be on their own balance canvas, not on the company that they're taking over.
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The book is non an expose nor does it have an axe to grind. Information technology about completely avoids talking about the personal lives of Schwarzman and others, except as information technology straight influences the story, and in the end, I came away with a basic level of respect for the master subject. The author does non seem sympathetic to Schwarzman, but he also does not try to make Schwarzman into anything more than than an incredibly successful individual equity financier. While talking about the bank crashes of 2008-09, the author stays on a neutral basis, and resists the temptation to launch into any attacks or diversions from his master story.
That master story is this, how starting in the 1980s, several companies began to use private equity to engineer humongous mergers and buyouts of company later on company, producing gargantuan levels of profit for the investors, which in some cases probably included my own land pension plan. The story is told that again and again these buyouts had good results for the companies that were overtaken, and that while jobs were nigh always lost in the curt term, new jobs were usually created in the long term. Private equity was able to infuse capital into companies in a way that allowed the company to reorganize and attain fiscal viability.
Learning of these realities makes it clear why financial giants who makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year are able to influence American politics with that coin.
At that place is a theme of greed here, just because the author stays factual, it doesn't have a front seat.
I would recommend this volume to someone who wants to understand a bit more about the American financial/business world of the terminal xxx years.
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Wish the author went into more particular nigh their investments. He just kinda gives it a brief mention and some global details here and there. Really wish I could learn how the firm did a turnaround of their diverse investments. They invested in cyclical companies at the right fourth dimension or turnaround companies that were undervalued. The writer gives some mention but I really want to find out what exactly they did.
Overall, its the best of the agglomeration and gi
Pretty proficient and thorough history of BlackstoneWish the writer went into more than detail virtually their investments. He just kinda gives it a brief mention and some global details here and at that place. Really wish I could learn how the business firm did a turnaround of their various investments. They invested in cyclical companies at the right time or turnaround companies that were undervalued. The writer gives some mention but I really want to observe out what exactly they did.
Overall, its the all-time of the bunch and gives the reader what they ultimately desire, a history of Blackstone and some insight into the Private Equity industry.
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I idea I'd learn much more about Schwarzman, but there'southward really nothing here that you couldn't observe in his interviews.
The Blackstone information is pretty detailed and provides an interesting read. The book surprised me with all of the non-Blackstone related private equity detail. Nonetheless, withal very interesting if you don't listen reading a bit most cash flows, debt vs. equity and the deal making process.
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I thought I'd learn much more than about Schwarzman, simply at that place's really nothing hither that yous couldn't notice in his interviews.
The Blackstone information is pretty detailed and provides an interesting read. The book surprised me with all of the non-Blackstone related private equity detail. Nonetheless, still very interesting if y'all don't mind reading a bit near cash flows, debt vs. disinterestedness and the deal making process.
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At that place are some facts that are eye-opening, such equally the ultra depression corporeality of equity that PE firms are required to put down in a leverage buyout deal in the fourscore'south and 90's. The conglome
The book is non merely about Schwarzman and Blackstone. It likewise captures the zeitgeist of the LBO/PE industry from the eighty's to post GFC. KKR, Carlyle, Apollo are more than supporting characters in this non-fictional business relationship of the rise of Blackstone, one of the most formidable private equity asset managers in the world.There are some facts that are eye-opening, such as the ultra low amount of equity that PE firms are required to put down in a leverage buyout deal in the 80's and xc's. The conglomerate premium, once used to be the norm, was the enabler to the conglomerate construction that was embraced by numerous corporates in America. When the market place stopped believing in the conglomerate business organization model, companies divested not-core business organization to PE firms, who were the willing buyers at the fourth dimension. Coupled with lenders who are willing to lend at high debt-to-equity ratios, PE firms were able to reap profits by deploying leverage and improving business margin at the aforementioned fourth dimension. This spurt would terminal till late 2006 when the GFC brought the PE industry to a juddering halt. Nevertheless, PE firms have since and so recuperated from their losses and are now even more institutionalised and diversified than they were in the 80's.
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Information technology's more than than a biographical piece on Steve Schwarzman. It's about an Investment Industry which has turned the fortunes of many a number of Industries both ways. Cursed past the employees generally whose c
A good read for all of those who are in the business organization earth and who aren't well versed with the world of Private Disinterestedness. The journey of Blackstone, ane of the worlds leading PE firms, over the last iii plus decades is a good fashion to know and sympathise as to how diverse forms of financing take evolved.It'due south more than a biographical piece on Steve Schwarzman. It's almost an Investment Industry which has turned the fortunes of many a number of Industries both ways. Cursed by the employees mostly whose companies were bought out and revered by the investors who made multiple time profits from their investments.
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Back in 2008, Blackstone emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the subprime crisis, becoming a trailblazer in financializing rents. As that crisis went global, so also did Blackstone'south belongings empire. By the time the grit had settled, it was the biggest commercial real estate visitor on the planet, according toFortune magazine. .
At present, Blackstone wants to repeat the feat, admitting using a somewhat different playbook. At the Goldman Sachs Financial Ser
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Back in 2008, Blackstone emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the subprime crisis, becoming a trailblazer in financializing rents. As that crisis went global, and so as well did Blackstone'southward property empire. By the time the dust had settled, it was the biggest commercial real estate company on the planet, according toFortune magazine. .
Now, Blackstone wants to repeat the feat, albeit using a somewhat unlike playbook. At the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference, held on December 9, Blackstone'southward CEO, Stephen Schwarzman, gave a few hints about how it plans to do just that. Asked if he thought large firms such every bit Blackstone would once more than gain more market place share during this crisis, he responded:
I think something like will happen. You e'er accept winners and losers. Blackstone was a huge winner coming out of the global fiscal crisis. And I think something similar is going to happen.
During the last crisis, Blackstone pioneered the buy-to-rent scheme past snapping up, for cents on the dollar, huge batches of foreclosed homes from struggling and bailed-out banks and so turning them into rental properties. In short order, Blackstone's subsidiary Invitation Homes became the largest owner of single-family unit rental homes in the United States. It also took the meaning of "absentee landlord" to a whole new level, as accusations of ill repair and poor maintenance speedily mounted. Tenants as well complained virtually excessive hire increases and fees.
Waiting for "Blood in the Streets"
In one case the model was up and running in the U.S., it was apace exported to cities in Canada (Toronto) and Europe (Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Dublin, Stockholm…). Since going public in 2007, Blackstone has multiplied eightfold the equity capital it devotes to real estate, to $163 billion. As Scharzman himself put it, the company'southward strategy in post-crisis Europe essentially involved "waiting to see how beaten upward people's psyches get, and where they're willing to sell avails … You want to wait until there'south actually blood in the streets."
Equally Blackstone'southward property empire grew and grew, it managed to convince regulators in the U.S. to allow it to transform part of that empire into rent-backed structured securities. It paid Moody'south, Kroll, and Morningstar lucrative fees to rate a large chunk of those securities AAA. And when the securities began to sour just a few years later afterwards a Blackstone securitization saw a large drib in rental income, Blackstone managed to convincethe Obama administration to bail it out past providing explicit government guarantees for the higher-rated tranches.
Now, around half of Blackstone'due south earnings come from real manor, with much of it coming from commercial property. In its role equally commercial landlord the company holds the fate of hundreds of thousands of struggling small-scale and large business organisation tenants in its hands. In the UK, information technology is already facing a growing backlash after its commercial existent estate subsidiary, the Arch Company, began hiking rents for some tenants in the midst of a global pandemic. Those tenants include florists, cafés, breweries, gyms and mechanics, many of whom have been sledgehammered by the recent crisis. But they're unlikely to find a sympathetic ear from their landlord.
In his conversation with Blostein, Schwarzman didn't just brag that his firm had emerged every bit "a huge winner" from the global financial crisis; he as well boasted well-nigh his firm'south big earnings off loftier rents, which is a bit rich (pun not intended) in the midst of a global pandemic that has ripped asunder the livelihoods of untold millions of residential tenants and upended the business concern models of untold millions of companies:
"Merely to give y'all some idea how this breaks, we pick the proficient neighborhoods, if you lot volition. Real manor has a lot of different sub asset classes. And nosotros've concentrated on logistics. It's about 36% of all the real estate we ain. We're the largest owner of real manor in the private globe. And that asset class has boomed with huge increases in rent, almost no occupancies* and rent collections from well-nigh everyone."
(* Presumably he meant vacancies)
Bug in Spain
In some of Blackstone'south biggest property markets the pickings are no longer as rich as they used to be. In Spain, residential rents were already peaking in many major cities before the virus crisis plunged the economy into its deepest recession on record. Now they're plunging. And firm prices are expected to do the same. There is as well a moratorium on evictions. Plus, the center-left Sánchez authorities has extended the minimum elapsing of rental contracts, which has hampered the ability of institutional landlords to turf out the existing tenants of newly acquired backdrop as quickly every bit possible in order to jack upwardly rents for new ones.
None of this is good news for Blackstone, which owns some 100,000 real estate assets in the land, including a huge portfolio of impaired assets, such as defaulted mortgages and the homes that back them, and real manor-endemic assets (REOs), that are controlled via dozens of companies. Now, it has begun to offload some of those assets.
In the U.S., Democrats passed legislation that would create a one-yr eviction moratorium, which could preclude Blackstone and other Wall Street landlords from turfing not-paying tenants out of their homes during a pandemic. But the neb is beingness blocked by Senate Republicans, to whom Schwarzman donated $35 meg during the election cycle likewise as an boosted $15 meg.
During the Goldman Sachs video conference, Schwarzman hinted that his firm may soon get-go ownership upwards more residential real estate in the U.S., this time concentrated in the suburbs, to which many families accept relocated in the wake of recent lockdowns. But the house is not taking its middle off urban areas; information technology's merely waiting for prices to fall depression enough:
"In the suburbs, for instance, suburban residential has turned out to be quite a expert place to be. When the cities get cheap plenty, then you go back to doing that. So, there's a lot of interesting things, and every part of the firm is really operating full out, which, if you would take asked me in April whether anything like this would have been possible, yous'd have to say no."
Central Banks Back to the Rescue
In Apr markets were crashing. Then, niggling past footling, the trillions of dollars that had been conjured up by the Federal Reserve and other large central banks began to feed through to the financial markets, which in turn began to re-levitate, creating an even more bifurcated economy. As mom-and-pop businesses hit the wall in droves and millions of people lost their jobs, the Fed bailed out shareholders whose stocks were plunging and rescued investors of high-risk assets that were in the procedure of imploding, such as highly leveraged mortgage REITs. The bigger the investor, the more money they got.
Private equity firms such as Blackstone were close to the forepart of the queue. Despite having on paw an estimated $1.7 trillion of and so-called "dry powder" — uninvested but committed capital — private equity firms were big beneficiaries of the emergency loan programs launched in the CARES human activity. Many of the firms they owned ended upwardly receiving millions of dollars in low-interest PPP loans from the Small Business Assistants (SBA). In the Great britain, private equity groups won a like concession in September allowing Britain companies they own to access emergency land-backed loan schemes.
PE firms such as Blackstone besides benefited in a more subtle style from the Federal Reserve'south pledge to buy up to $700 billion of corporate paper, including junk bonds and bond ETFs. In the end the Fed had only bought $13 billion in corporate bonds and bond ETFs as of early on December, but its jawboning spurred one of the largest junk bail ownership binges in history. And PE firms were amid the biggest beneficiaries. The 2nd quarter saw i of the highest-ever levels of junk-bond issuance past private equity-backed companies, at more than than $31bn.
Branching Out
In the cognition that it enjoys the tacit and, at times, explicit backing of the Fed and the U.S. Treasury and with over $150 billion of dry powder — more than than any other PE business firm — Blackstone is branching out. According to Schwarzman, it has expanded into 11 new business concern areas with 33 different products since the global financial crisis:
"Nosotros used to just practise very high return products. Now we practise things that are intermediate and things that for us are low, which are 8% plus, but if you're in the fixed income business, you think that'southward pretty high. And nosotros're expanding globally, doing that type of strategy."
1 area Blackstone has recently moved into in a big way is, ironically, life sciences. Just two weeks ago, information technology bought a 2.3-one thousand thousand-square-pes portfolio of lab buildings on a thirty-acre campus next to Massachusetts Plant of Technology. That was shortly after recapitalizing BioMed Realty, the largest private owner of life-sciences property in the U.Due south., for $fourteen.6 billion. The firm is besides on the verge of acquiring another two life-science buildings in the Boston-Cambridge market for $1 billion, co-ordinate to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal reported.
The life-sciences sector has been one of the few silvery linings for commercial real estate during the pandemic. While most office workers continue to stay habitation, life-sciences jobs ofttimes require special equipment and infrastructure, making information technology harder to work remotely.
"You tin can't create a new drug from your living room or kitchen. You lot need to be in physical lab space," said Nadeem Meghji, Blackstone's caput of existent estate for the Americas.
Blackstone has also been snapping upward warehouse space all over the world to turn a profit from the burgeoning e-commerce business. It is also exploring means to monetize the client data of the almost 100 companies it has caused over the years, according to a recent Bloomberg study.
Coincidentally, that story broke just weeks after Blackstone completed its $4.7 billion acquisition of Ancestry, the global leader in digital family history services that has likewise expanded into Deoxyribonucleic acid testing and advanced genetic health screening. Over three 1000000 paying customers from more 30 countries have sent samples of their Dna to Beginnings then that the company could tell them where their ancestors originated from. Now those samples vest to Blackstone.
Blackstone insists it will not have admission to Ancestry user Deoxyribonucleic acid or family unit tree data. Simply not everyone is convinced. Alan Butler, acting executive director and general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said the deal raises privacy concerns equally it gives a private disinterestedness business firm access to health data.
"The large business organization when there is a big deal like this is that investors might exist interested in that data for other reasons, and non in the ways that consumers intended when they gave over that information," Butler said in an interview with CBS News.
Given Blackstone'south track tape at monetising just nigh everything it can get its hands on, Butler'southward concerns are probably well founded. But it's ultimately in crisis-ravaged real estate where Blackstone seeks to continue to find a goldmine. Anchored by generous political contributions and fuelled once over again by desperation uppercase pouring out of cardinal banks and governmental treasuries at a time of deep economic crunch, the company hopes to strengthen its grip on bricks and mortar at every level and in many countries.
January xi, 2021 Nick Corbishley
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The last chapter seemed was the most intriguing to me. The writer tri
This seemed like a off-white appraisal of the history of Blackstone. Information technology doesn't paint Schwarzman as a god, more every bit a very focused and hard-working young man who did a good chore of gathering people effectually him that knew what they were doing. Information technology also did a fair job assessing the private equity industry as a whole, bucking the general shallow perception of private equity every bit greedy investors looking to destroy a company for personal gain.The last chapter seemed was the most intriguing to me. The author tries to provide some context by giving a commonage perspective on the history of private equity and its future. In information technology, he quoted an executive at a mid-level PE firm every bit stating that about all of individual equity's returns are just explained past the decline in interest rates since its inception in the tardily 70s. If this is really truthful, information technology raises some very thought provoking questions about the future of PE and investing as a whole in a world where interest rates are 0.
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Would I go out and worship Schwarzman after thi
You know what I learned from this book? Plenty of money exists in the earth, and some people are much better at finding them, Schwarzman and Blackstone in this example, and make enormous profit and benefit from it. I wouldn't get out and say that Private Disinterestedness is all proficient for businesses and the economy as a whole, merely it is a driving force in nearly cases for innovation and efficiency in fiscal technology, from Syndicated Loans to Junk Bonds to CDOs.Would I become out and worship Schwarzman later on this? Likely, very likely. Should yous? Perchance read the volume and find out for yourself.
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I think yous tin can have a lot of value out of this volume by reading the very last chapter which summarizes the current country of the industry and provides predictions about what will happen in the future.
The numbers got a flake laborius toward the finish, but the real estate chapter picks upwards toward the end, which is a fascinating read too.
Below are my notes per affiliate:
1. The Debutants - PE overview
Best PE strategies -> purchase troubled companies or expanding them
Banks got rid of PE brands so they would not compete with their clients
Stocks sold by PE firms practice better than just normal IPOs stocks on average
2. Houdaille Magic, Lehman Malaise - Schwarz's early days @ lehman and his get out
3. The Drexel Decade - Drexel Financing
1985 - LBOs booming → 1)
Beneath are my notes per affiliate:
1. The Debutants - PE overview
Best PE strategies -> buy troubled companies or expanding them
Banks got rid of PE brands so they would not compete with their clients
Stocks sold past PE firms do better than simply normal IPOs stocks on boilerplate
ii. Houdaille Magic, Lehman Angst - Schwarz'southward early on days @ lehman and his go out
3. The Drexel Decade - Drexel Financing
1985 - LBOs booming → ane) Empire building 2) financing
Drexel Burnham Lambert - Junk created junk bonds - lead to more debt to takeover
1980s - had depression interest rates
Buyouts vs raiders (ex: Carl Icohn - issue takeover bid over mgmt)
LBO were v-15% equity, bank debt and mezzanine from insurance companies
Michael Milkin at Drexel did junk bonds > which were better
Martin Lipton - police house- started takeover defence force (ex: poison pill) equally takeover were getting large
4. Who Are You Guys? - Fundraising for BX
Prepare joint ventures nether name
2 famous ones: Real estate and bonds (shortly known as Blackrock)
Hurdle rate introduced by Prudential for BX for funding dela - first investors of BX
Bootstrap
Blackstone name is Peter and Steve's name in German language and Greek Blackness/Stone
v. Right on Track - BX offset deal
Leverage recap -> debt added, buying reshuffled
LBO ways to profit
Debt paydown
Increase cash flows
Dividend recap - go more debt and pay dividends
Michael Milken was junk bonds, Jimmy Lee was lefin with syndications - reinvented bank lending - larger loan packages
Mist PE shops wanted control, BX was flexible (open to split ownership)
6. Running Off the Rails - two poor deals + next steps for BX
By 1989 - 1000&A was taken to a halt
Formal bargain review process was created for BX - submit research and proposal
2 deals didn't go well
BX started a merger arb unit in 1989 - was shutdown due to losses
seven. Presenting the Steve Schwarzman - Backround on Steve (CEO) and Peter (Chairman)
8. Cease of an Era, Beginning of an Image Problem - End of first buyout era + afterward
Larry Fink - Blackrock - was getting profitable
Bridge financing was invested to compete with drexel's junk bonds (bonds would accept time to exercise, something had to sell)
They were curt term loans that would be paid back with bonds later
1900s credit crunch - over borrowing - LBOS
Mgmt would practice what PE shops would do so non taken over - harder opportunities
Credit markets wanted (1990s) xx-30% of disinterestedness now
Had to look at value creation now
9. Fresh Faces - New firms/IPOs for BX
Fear now Milken would not exist able to refinance struggling companies
SEC charged Milken and Drexel fro insider trading
HE left in 1989
Plus with credit crunch - Drexel went bankrupt in 1990
When IPO, they didn't sell shares yet for their exit
TPG was known equally turnaround
Apollo was known for distressed
Carlyle was known for government expertise - industry cognition
Smaller deals in early 1990s compared to 80s
10. The Divorces and a Battle of the Minds - Exits, Blackrock & Evercore
Altamn left BX for politics and never got a render offer back so started Evercore
1994- Blackrock formed from BX over wanting to give more than equity to get good ppl
11. Hanging Out New Shingles - RX + Real Estate ventures
1992/1993 - deregulation in finance industry
Led to 1 stop shop for cyberbanking for everything
Injure tiny bazaar 1000&A
BX recruited RX group in 1990s
Plus for real estate arm- distressed real manor
Bx started funds of funds in mid 90s
12. Back In Business - Change in PE + Levfin change + deals
LBO/buyouts were tarnished - switched to private equity branding - used to exist for VC for funding innovations + growth
Hard to rethink how to profit
Focused on operational improvements
Had executives who could consult with
Lee did loans the junk bond financing all at once
One stop financing
Commercial banks went from direct lending to syndication
Lenders wanted 20-thirty% equity
"Peterson sold on concept, Person made the deal fly"
13. Turing in Profits - VC/Tech Rising + Telecom investments
PPl began to exist interested in tech instead of boding industrials
BX raised telecom fund
Silverish Lake formed by a head guy at BX who left
14. An Expensive Trip to Germany - 2001 "Crash"
In 200s not many LBOS beingness done
9/11 bad for economic system + corporate scandals (enron)
PPL, profits and upper-case letter was going to tech and VC
2000s bad for buyout - 62 went bosom in 2001- many had bad deals
European funds: Apax, BC partners, CVC, Cinven, Permira
2001-2003 buyouts in london - BX didn't accept a not bad london shop
fifteen. Alee of the Curve - Other Investments, Strategies across the buyout
16. Assist Wanted - New BX managers
17. Good Chemistry, Perfect Timing - Cyclical Deals
18. Cash Out, Dues Up Again - 2000s trends
nineteen. Wanted: Public Investors - Public Market Fund Attempts
twenty. Too Good to Be True - Bubble Rise due to syndication
21. Office Party - Real Estate Deal
22. Going Public- Very Public - IPO for BX
23. What Goes Up Must Come Down - Recession
24. Paying the Piper - Recession
25. Value Builders or Quick Cadet Artists? - PE Studies / Examples
26. Follow the Money - Trends/ Overview
Xxx five years back 2 onetime employees of Lehman Brothers – the investment bank king of Wall Street left the company and set up their own LBO business firm. They were latecomers to the game. A decade earlier – in 1978 to be precise - the number ane Private Equity house (then a footling-known investment firm) Kohlberg Kravis.
KING OF Capital narrates the story of the remarkable rise, autumn, and authors David Carey and John E. Morris convey how, why and its identify in the economy of private equity industry.Thirty five years back 2 former employees of Lehman Brothers – the investment depository financial institution king of Wall Street left the company and set up their ain LBO business firm. They were latecomers to the game. A decade earlier – in 1978 to be precise - the number 1 Private Equity house (and so a little-known investment firm) Kohlberg Kravis. Roberts (KKR) struck an agreement to buy HOUDAILLE INDUSTRIES an industrial pumps maker and a publicly held visitor for $380 millions in a leveraged buyout. It was a daring bet and the offset daring buyout of a publicly held company. This was also earlier the era of Michael Milken and his investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert and its high flowing junk bonds.
The two Lehman bankers were its CEO Peter Peterson and Investment Director Steven Schwarzman. As pun on their names the firm was named SCHWARZPETER of course in English. Schwarz in Yiddish meant Black (Schwarzman was a Jew) and Peter in Greek meant Rock (Peterson was of Greek descent) and hence the firm was named BLACKSTONE.
Today Blackstone is a financial services conglomerate with US$ 571 billion Assets under Management and owning full assets of U.s.a.$ 34,430 billion. Truly a King of Uppercase. Steve Schwarzman at present in his seventies is all the same its Executive Chairman and CEO. In 2012 the avails under management was less than US$ 50 billion and Blackstone stock was quoting beneath the IPO price of US$ 31 per share. Currently the stock is quoting at US$ 51.75 (closing price at NYSE on 27th Oct 2020)
Blackstone, the fiscal powerhouse avoided the self-destructive tendencies of Wall Street. Published in 2010, but as the world economies started recovering from the financial meltdown of 2008 and 2009 (and updated in 2012) the authors show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and 'barbarians at the gate' into disciplined, chance-conscious investors.
The financial establishment — banks and investment bankers such equally Citigroup, Comport Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley — were the cowboys, recklessly assuming risks, leveraging up to astronomical levels and driving the economic system to the brink of disaster. Some of them vanished without a trace and the others were merged or absorbed past the stronger players. Lehman Brothers, Washington Common to name ii were wiped out. Merrill Lynch and Conduct Stearns were merged with Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Hunt respectively. And Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and others had to be bailed out with U.s. taxpayers funds to get them back on their anxiety.
A reading of the book reveals that though Blackstone was not at the head of the pack, its way of functioning, calculated risk taking and careful risk evaluation left it in the beginning of 2011 with a large war-chest of billions of dollars, while as mentioned in the before paragraph its competitors had to be bailed out by the federal government. Blackstone is at present ready to break out once over again since it is sitting on billions of dollars that can be invested at a time when the market is starved for upper-case letter.
Private equity firms including Blackstone have changed their operational styles to fit the post meltdown financial scenario. Instead of astronomically priced LBOs they are looking at lower priced prospects of US$ 10 billion or lower, and in 2011 first half no buyout exceeded U.s.a.$ vi billion a far cry from the 2007 deal of KKR-TPG of United states$ 48 billion for TXU, the Texas power visitor
On 3rd July 2007, a fortnight before the IPO Blackstone caused Hilton grouping for Us$ 27 billion. At the time of acquisition the debt of Hilton group was close to United states of america$ 16 billion and on buyout the debt ballooned to more than than United states$ xx billion. In the postcrisis era Blackstone deleveraged its Hilton holding by dent down the debt to the pre buyout level of US$ xvi billion.
Thus individual disinterestedness firms objective is changing and they follow where the money goes; but they are function and package of the financial scenario in todays world and corporates and businesses cannot do without them.
I really enjoyed reading this well-written, easy to read book on the history of Blackstone and the growth of private equity industry.
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With his wonky whiz-kid persona, estimator-like mental powers, and combative way, he browbeat Democratic congressmen and senators who challenged his views. Merely he presently incurred the wrath of political conservatives when he confessed to Atlantic reporter William Greider that supply-side economics was really window dressing for reducing the rates on high incomes. Among other acts of betrayment, he called doctrinaire supply-siders "naive." The 1981 article created a sensation and prompted Reagan to ask him over lunch, "Y'all have hurt me. Why?" Stockman famously described the meeting as a "trip to the woodshed." Though the president himself forgave him, Stockman'south loose lips undercut his power at the White House, and in 1985 he left regime to get an investment banker at Salomon Brothers."
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