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With deal flow having been effectively reduced to a slow trickle by the end of 2008, it's 2009's turn to stutter it into life. CDC Capital Investissement (CDC CI) signed off on the first......
Reports on the financial markets and global economy currently feel like a succession of bad news stories, and as 2009 rolls on this trend looks set to continue. This year also marks the......
Reading the finance section in the newspaper these days is like experiencing a day of London weather: chilly, windy morning followed by overcast midday before the rain kicks in during the......
The current market conditons mean a lot of companies will fold. Many are unsurprising - when was the last time you shopped in Woolworths (excluding Pick-n-Mix)? In fact, Standard & Poor's......
The end of 2008 was a frosty one, particularly on the leveraged buyout front. According to figures from unquote" proprietary database Private Equity Insight, Q4 saw a considerable drop in......
We enter the new year with uncertainty and apprehension about what lies ahead, after a turbulent 2008. As Jarle Gundersen of Norvestor Equity put it: "We started off with annus mirabilis......
Preliminary figures released by unquote" colour in a picture we've all had sketched for some time - a rapidly imploding buyout market in the UK and beyond. Across Europe buyouts were down......
The numbers are in for 2008 and the picture is bleak across Europe. Only countries such as Italy or Portugal posed (small) exceptions to the overall trend. Remembering the beginning of 2008,......
LPs have little to lose (and lots to gain) by defaulting on initial capital calls. All the talk nowadays is on finding the quickest and least painful way out; of deals (for stressed GPs......
All the chit-chat nowadays is about how no-one will close a deal before Christmas and that vendors want silly sums for their businesses. The deal-doing world is largely on hold, and with......
As the year ends, we can definitely say 2008 was an annus horribilis. The stormy skies observed from afar in the summer of 2007 did little to prepare us for the vicissitudes of the market.......
A chilling frost has gathered around the private equity world for the winter season of 2008, especially in the leveraged buyouts department which has all but ground to a halt with only the......
Signs of panic are ubiquitous. The Bank of England has just slashed interest rates by 150 basis points to 3% - their lowest level in 54 years. All this seems to have achieved is to confirm......
Normally, as a journalist, I am the one asking the questions. However, in Stockholm last week, everyone was keen to know how the situation was in London. Was it really a doomsday feel in......
Recently I asked some industry players their reactions vis-a-vis today's economic and financial woes. I was told not to believe all that is printed since it is often sensationalist. They......
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