It is common to obtain shares of a company through stock exchange. The shares and other financial instruments such as bonds are offered for transaction in stock exchange for public. The requirements for companies to be able to sell their shares in stock exchange are quite complicated. The listed companies have to fulfill certain criteria before they sell to public. They still have to fulfill some requirements of financial reporting and transparency information from time to time. If a business entity is not ready to fulfill those requirements, they still can sell their share to private investor. This is called as private equity investment.
Private Equity has many strategies in buying shares. One of the strategies is Leveraged Buyouts. This is a strategy to get control right in a company by buying majority of its share. The companies mostly are mature company, which already have established market. This is one of the main differences with other strategy in private equity such as venture capital, growth capital, distressed investments and mezzanine capital
Private Equity with Leveraged Buyouts are aiming to manage the company in a certain way to give benefit to the majority shareholders. It could be for market reason, for example, an airline operator buy majority shares of a courier company to start selling courier service in the same flag. The courier company might have to change its name to publish the identity of the courier service company as an extension of the airline’s business.