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Glossary
Banking
Buyout
A leveraged buyout is a corporate acquisition conducted by a private equity company (also known as a financial sponsor) using a limited amount of equity injected by the sponsor but financed mainly by a large amount of debt taken out, some of which uses selected target company’s assets as collateral.