**Joined sheets 1 and 2 to link gvkey to each LBO deal
**Joined resulting table to composite key to flag for LBO occurrences in given year-gvkey combination
**Note: this leaves This left many LBOs unmatched. Applying Applied name-based matching to include more deals (esp. all private-to-private)**Copied dealnumb and company name from LBO_List_and_data.xlsx into textpad**Manually removed extraneous symbols and words, saved result as LBO_Cleaned_data.xlsx
==STATA analysis==