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The Bootstrapped Startup’s Guide to Debt Financing

Lighter Capital

Some founders may choose to spend months pursuing equity funding from angel investors and venture capitalists, while others leverage debt financing to grow quickly without giving up equity or control too soon. Why do startups use debt financing? It’s best to start with the basics.

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Law and Courts in an Age of Debt

Harvard Corporate Governance

Shifting from equity to debt financing is not simply a matter of optimizing a firm’s cost of capital, however. Highly leveraged firms are now commonplace in many U.S. industries. It also has profound implications for the firm’s behavior and investor outcomes.

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Brian DeChesare

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity.

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Financing Year in Review: Evolving Markets and New Trends

Harvard Corporate Governance

Widely held concerns about inflation, rising interest rates, and a possible recession combined to slow debt financing and deal activity in the first half of 2023. Borrowers deferred new debt deals, delayed planned refinancings, and paused major corporate transactions while waiting for interest rates to top out.

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Interfor Completes Acquisition of Chaleur Forest Products and Announces Additional Long Term Debt Financing

Benzinga

30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- INTERFOR CORPORATION ("Interfor" or the "Company") (TSX: IFP ) announced today that it has completed the previously announced transaction to acquire 100% of the equity interests in the entities comprising Chaleur Forest Products ("Chaleur") in New Brunswick, Canada from an affiliate of the Kilmer Group.

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Blackstone braves frigid debt financing market with $14bn Emerson unit deal

Financial Times M&A

Private equity firm teams up with sovereign wealth funds in buyout of US conglomerate’s climate tech arm

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With Equity Markets Down, Venture Lending Provides Solution

Law 360 M&A

Given the growth of private debt funds, new entrants in the market and equity markets remaining sluggish, more borrowers are turning to venture debt financing, with long-standing venture funds offering flexibility and expertise without the risks of larger banks, says Jennifer Post at Thompson Coburn.

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