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JC Flowers to buy £450m of loans from Northern RockThe financial services specialist firm is expected to pay around £300m for the book of unsecured loans, five years after submitting a failed bid for the whole of the nationalised UK lender.
- Cinven in handover discussions over Frans Bonhomme
The French equipment maker, bought by the firm for €900m in 2005, is seeking to renegotiate the terms of its €600m debt burden.
- ECI books 2.5x return on IT company
The UK-based firm has sold CliniSys to Montagu for £100m - and has more exits in the pipeline as it eyes a return to the fundraising market next year.
- Activa targets €320m for Fund III
The French firm’s second fund collected the same amount in 2007 and is now more than 75% invested.
- Friday Letter: Diminishing due diligence
Deal flow has been described as the Holy Grail for GP groups, particularly for those operating in the ultra-competitive mid-market. Take the French private equity scene, for example. Here, perhaps more than anywhere else in Europe, identifying primary assets on a proprietary basis is becoming as much the stuff of myth and legend as the romantic quests undertaken by the knights of ancient Christendom.
- Friday Letter It's spin out time
LPs are right to be paying attention to the latest wave of new managers attempting to establish themselves.
- Friday Letter Stepping down and stepping back
Succession has long been a tricky issue to deal with for private equity firms, but several groups have demonstrated in recent weeks that it need not be a painful process.
- Friday Letter Why ‘rights for shares’ is a bad trade-off
Industry representatives should be wary of supporting any reforms predicated on a diminution of employees' rights.
- Why ‘rights for shares’ is a bad trade-off
Industry representatives should be wary of supporting any reforms predicated on a diminution of employees' rights.
- AIP, EQT, Headland lead pack in PEI's Operational Excellence Awards
American Industrial Partners, EQT and Headland Capital won the overall Americas, EMEA and Asia categories in PEI's inaugural Operational Excellence Awards.