This paper analyzes the link between the financial capital structure in LBO (Leveraged Buyout) acquisitions and the agents' incentives under asymmetric information. We present a static model with three agents: the entrepreneur, the LBO fund and the bank. The first two agents provide...

Since 2000, technology companies have experienced dramatic losses in public market valuation. The question is whether this decline in prices opened the door for a concept hardly yet applied to this sector: leveraged and management buyouts. Tilman E. Pohlhausen explains why buyouts of companies...