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How private equity firm Silver Lake used (needed) financial engineering, tough negotiating and luck to make a profit investing in a terrible business

Source: FT, Friday 5th Feb 2021 Having taken on $500m in senior debt during the pandemic from investors including Apollo Global, AMC Entertainment, the cinema operator, quickly found itself burning through $100m in cash per month with no-one going to movie theatres. In order to buy itself time, AMC embarked on a complex refinancing program,Continue reading “How private equity firm Silver Lake used (needed) financial engineering, tough negotiating and luck to make a profit investing in a terrible business”