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Re:Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm by ComputerGuru on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:14PM (#36753034)
I wasn’t referring to the banks but the owners (or rather, the controllers) of the businesses that can obtain cash against the value of their property/assets or from the value of their business. These aren’t always individual loans in the hundreds of millions of dollars; the debt can be accrued piecemeal.

(I’m also not talking in general but rather about certain specific cases/forms.)

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Re:Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm by multicast on Monday July 17, 2023 @05:35PM (#36764426)
In a high interest rate and pessimistic market environment, raising funds for a stumbling business is not easy at all. PE firms are specialized in such risky investments, thus the option of a buyout from a PE firm is the best thing that can happen to an owner. Its the owners own free will to sell or getting the hard way and try to save his business.
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