Cool LBO

Can you do the Dell deal, or does it need to be completed?

Blackstone Sea World? Just finished up....

The BX - sea world is a great suggestion, keep 'em coming. Yup, I would prefer if they were completed.

You could do Apax - Cole Haan.

or much smaller shoe deal like gladstone buying allen edmonds: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gladstone-capital-corporation-i…

I would prefer larger deals. For now BX - seaworld is the best candidate.

if you're looking for something out of the ordinary then the obvious one is the recent Heinz buyout: value investor warren buffet teaming up with an atypical brazilian PE firm to execute a mega-LBO with a relatively interesting deal structure? that's about as "cool" as LBOs get. the deal might be less levered than a typical LBO done by the usual suspects but that hardly matters...still counts.

@DoubleBottomLine: Indeed, initially I was thinking of the Heinz deal. Unfortunately I'm supposed to chose a closed one, and that cuts it out.

TPG buyout of JCrew KKR/SLP buyout of GoDaddy

Both have closed, as you already may know.

GS/TPG buyout of Burger King was pretty cool. Viewed in the industry as just an okay investment (which happened to have a 32% IRR and they exited right before the downturn).

I think the Celanese deal by Blackstone is very interesting. it happened in 04 tho

3g's buyout and exit of burger king via the ackman spac / reverse ipo last year was pretty interesting and minted them a shit ton of cash

What about the KKR buyout of RJR Nabisco ? Some people woud say it's too old ('89), I think it was the baddest PE lbo ever

Freescale if you want to focus on tech.