Dun & Bradstreet: Clearlake Gambles on Risky Debt in Rush to Buy Dun & Bradstreet

Clearlake Capital Group was in a tight spot. It needed to move fast as it closed in on a deal to buy Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc., one of Wall Street's oldest providers of data and analytics, but lining up a traditional debt package to fund the leveraged buyout would have taken weeks.