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Bye bye buyouts

There was a generally sombre mood at the AFIC conference this month, with previsions for the remainder of 2009 being predominantly bleak according to both GPs and LPs. There was speculation that funding concerns for certain independent GPs are becoming...

Testing times

Without covenants to offer early warnings, GPs are trawling their portfolios - today's defaults may be the tip of the iceberg

One hundred

While a "reflective" mood was prevailant at the EVCA Investors' Forum in Geneva, with talk of many GPs potentially going to the wall, things in France have been rather good in contrast

Blast from the past

Over the last hundred issues France unquote has covered some significant deals. Remember these?