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We have seen more private equity mergers fail in recent months that you might wonder if the private equity sector will ever do any more large deals. No group of stocks looks as bad as the group of the recently failed private equity buyouts.

Some of the losses here may seem excessive compared to what would have been the buyout price, but that is the new private equity M&A world for you. Below you will see how wide these spreads would be if the old mergers magically reappeared, but don't hold your breath.

The freshly failed acquisition of 3Com Corp. (NASDAQ: COMS) by Bain Capital Partners LLC & Huawei was originally $5.30 cash, although the last ditch effort to please the CIFIUS watchdog via a unit sale would have resulted in a lower price. If that magically came back, you'd be looking at an 82% gain.

You can access this full article with more detailed explanations and would-be spreads. Other busted private equity buyouts discussed are as follows:

• The Alliance Data Systems Corp. (NYSE: ADS) buyout from The Blackstone Group, LP (NYSE: BX)
• SLM Corp. (NYSE: SLM), or Sallie Mae, and J.C. Flowers
• United Rentals Inc. (NYSE: URI) buyout from Cerberus

Clear Channel Communications Inc. (NYSE: CCU) from Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Bain Capital is actually still a pending deal, although that is also addressed because of a wide arb-spread.

Maybe someone can create a Failed Merger ETF. They have an ETF for almost everything else.