https://www.economist.com/node/21801930?fsrc=rss%7Cbus
BUYOUT SHOPS are neck-deep in dry powder. Earlier this year the world’s private-equity firms were sitting on $1.9trn in unspent capital. This month three of the biggest, Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman, reportedly agreed to pay $34bn for control of Medline, a supplier of medical equipment. It will be the biggest leveraged buyout since the global financial crisis of 2007-09 put paid to most such debt-fuelled acquisitions.■
