Mr. Kessler begins his op-ed with an uncompromising claim: Private equity is done. Stick a fork in it. With Kraft singles and Heinz ketchup as toppings, there are many signs that private equity has peaked as an asset class. He then moves on to give arguments for why private equity is dead as a doornail.…

At the behest of a friend, I’m setting out a number of observations about the private equity deals that occurred in 2014. Being January 29, 2015 when I finished writing this post, it is a little late, but I prefer to be as thorough as I can be…

The practice certainly still seems very widespread and not just among private equity sponsors, if the data the Bloomberg article cites is true: Data gathered by Xtract Research show that 77 percent of all loan deals in the third quarter included provisions giving borrowers the ability to block individual lenders, up from 51 percent at the end of last year.…