The biggest private equity groups are sitting on a $400bn debt mountain that needs to be repaid over the next five years, putting the future of some of the largest buy-out deals in doubt.
Private equity firms raised large amounts of bank debt to buy companies between 2005 and 2007.
They face more than $21bn of debt maturities in the next two years, another $50bn in 2012, $115bn in 2013 and $192bn in 2014, according to data from S&P LCD.
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