Bankers Alarmed over Latest PE Maneuver
Billion dollar M&A deals are back, and usually that means leveraged finance desks across Wall Street rake in a fortune. This time around though, private equity has been cutting them out of most of the most desirable deals. Bloomberg's Reshmi Basu joined us for Wall Street Beat on Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about the trend. (Source: Bloomberg)
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