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What I don't understand is why a bank would loan money to a leveraged buyout when it so often ends in bankruptcy.



I think we have to be careful of sampling bias - nobody ever hears of the leveraged buyouts that work smoothly


PE can lend to its owned assets. Accumulation of capital is powerful in that way.




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