a takeover bid in which a small company makes use of its limited assets, and those of the usually larger target company, to raise the loans required to finance the takeover
Abbreviation: LBO
leveraged buyout in American English
Business
the acquisition of a corporation, using mostly borrowed funds which are secured by the assets of the corporation being acquired
Examples of 'leveraged buyout' in a sentence
leveraged buyout
`I don't know if we can do it, but sometimes a leveraged buyout works.