Some quick hits before embarking on the return trip from Portland, Ore. to Boston…
*** Today’s big LBO deal news is the possibility that Clear Channel could go private for around $18.5 billion. There are lots of angles of this deal worth discussing – high leverage multiples, family management control but not financial control, a number of non-core assets that could be sold off – but the most interesting may be that Providence Equity Partners and Thomas H.
