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Lobby Ltd is the target of an LBO. It has EBITDA of $150 million. A private equity group buys Lobby at 4 times EBITDA. The purchase is financed by $320 million debt and the remaining is equity investment by the private equity group. Five years later, EBITDA has grow to $175 million. The private equity group sells Lobby at 5 times EBITDA to a competitor. At the time of the sale, the firm still has $320 debt outstanding. Assume cash balance is negligible.

1) What is the value of equity at exit?

A) 175M

B) 555M

C 280M

2. What is the IRR experienced by the private equity group?

A) 7.84%

B) 98.2%

C) 14.7%

 

3) The positive IRR was due to

A) Debt amortization and multiple expansion

B) Improvement in operating performance and multiple expansion

C) Improvement in operating performance, multiple epxansion, and debt amortization

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