Big leveraged buyouts won't return for at least a year because the complex structured products and investors that supported such deals have disappeared, said Thomas H. Lee, president of private-equity firm Lee Equity Partners LLC, at a conference on Tuesday.

This article takes a look at the cause of the current trouble in leveraged loans. It explores how banks got into this mess and how we should think about the problem.

Article looking at the relationship between private equity shops and wall street banks. How is this relationship changing due to current lending conditions and how will it be in the future?