Kick off 2009

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 and only LBO of the year so far with the purchase of a majority stake in DGF, a producer and distributor of fresh and frozen food products for the bakery sector, valued at under EUR50m and with Societe Generale providing the debt