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Take-privates: Playing hard to get?

Author: John Bakie
unquote | 31 Aug 2010 | secure
Listed companies are turning down private equity advances

Shares in troubled care provider Southern Cross leaped 67% late last week after it declined an approach from TowerBrook. Having suffered a massive fall in its share price this year, it may have seemed an easy target for private equity bidders, but has declined to enter further negotiations.

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