Bennett Goodman News
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Bennett Goodman, who got his start almost 30 years ago helping Michael Milken use junk bonds to fund companies others thought too risky, says he is now the biggest investor in high-yield corporate loans in Europe as local banks back away.
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GSO Capital Partners LP, the credit unit of Blackstone Group LP, has doubled rescue lending since August as Europe’s debt crisis pushes more companies to the brink of default, according to co-founder Bennett Goodman.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan. It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting. Four months earlier, Bear Stearns Cos. had sold itself for just $10 a share to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Private-equity firms from Blackstone Group LP to Carlyle Group LP that fueled an expansion in the market for junk bonds and loans during the leveraged buyout boom are now loading up on that debt as takeovers dwindle.
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After making their founders billionaires, buyout specialists such as Carlyle Group and KKR & Co. are turning into asset managers that run hedge funds and strip malls as fresh capital and takeover targets become scarce.
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Blackstone Group LP has raised about $1.5 billion from clients for a fund that will be managed by David Blitzer, a senior managing director who started the New York-based firm’s European private-equity business in 2002.
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Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, said second-quarter profit fell 74 percent as market swings hurt the value of its holdings.
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GSO Capital Partners LP, the credit investment arm of Blackstone Group LP, is offering a fee break to clients that join the initial close of its second company rescue fund, said two people familiar with the situation.
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Blackstone Group LP , the world’s biggest private-equity firm, said a $10 billion company buyout is possible with banks’ growing willingness to lend, and that the real estate market is stabilizing.
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Michael Guy resigned as Bank of America Corp.’s co-head of distressed sales and trading for Europe, the Middle East and Africa after three years in the job.
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