It's good to be a bank

9 April 2009 By Rob Cox

A deal funded 71% with debt 7.5 times ebitda sounds like a throwback to Steve Schwarzman s 60th birthday. But that s the financing Barclays is offering with its sale of iShares. Fifth Third did something similar for Advent. LBOs are OK again when the lender is the seller.

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