Debt Used To Finance Acquisitions Increasing Pressure On Private Equity

Private equity firms are facing a reckoning as the borrowed cash they used to finance myriad deals in recent years is coming due. "Theres absolutely going to be a lot of pain to go around," Josh Lerner, a professor of

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Private equity firms are facing a reckoning as the borrowed cash they used to finance myriad deals in recent years is coming due.

“Theres absolutely going to be a lot of pain to go around,” Josh Lerner, a professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School, told The New York Times. “The big question is how apocalyptic it will be.”

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