Advantage trade buyers as LBO sponsors lose their powers

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Advantage trade buyers as LBO sponsors lose their powers

Trade buyers are back in business. For the last four years they have had to compete, unsuccessfully in many cases, with private equity sponsors who had cheap and easy access to the debt markets. Now, with the European and US LBO markets all but shut, trade buyers are back in the driving seat.

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