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The almost two-decade journey resulted in GO Outdoors becoming one of the UK's largest outdoor retailers and a 37x multiple for the British firm.

The Dutch manager pulled no punches in its attempts to revive Banketgroep.

EQT Partners took the good work Faerch Plast had done in Denmark and replicated it Europe-wide.

The task for the two firms and the management of VAT Group was classic private equity value creation.

Find out what a bankrupt 10-pin American bowling firm, a Dutch pastry maker and a Vietnamese phone retailer have in common in PEI's annual celebration of the industry’s best value-creation stories.

Michele Russo, a Doughty Hanson and Lazard veteran who joined the buyout firm as a managing director, has left after over one year in the role, Private Equity International has learned.

Bain Capital spin-out Core Equity Holdings on its €1bn debut long-term fund and why the traditional PE model is set for an overhaul.

The potential deal involves the Scandinavian private equity firm's 2008-vintage fund which has around €2bn in NAV.

This follows the seventh and final investment in its first co-investment vehicle, which raised €100 m.

Some 42% of LPs expect to deploy more capital via co-investments over the next year as investor sentiment shifts away from primary funds.