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Investments are often in individual
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employed 21 . Leverage effect expla
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Investments are sold off to other c
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Private Equity: European trends in
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time because of the longer holding
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Bain CapitalPartners 74.7 9Thomas H
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Sources of new funds raised (2005)C
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The private equity manager virtuall
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The fund structuring arrangements f
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ownership transfers. But buyout cap
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equity value chain. The main areas
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of the table but that less mature c
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UCITS (Undertakings for Collective
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Article 49Within the framework of t
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open and secure retail markets and
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offeree company must give its views
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In its Communication on worker info
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est practices, promoting innovative
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- Work to ensure more consistent an
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destabilising the financial markets
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& LBOs invest. It increases financi
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In particular, incumbent managers o
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long-term competitiveness of the ac
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It also leads to further weakening
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If HFs and LBOs have brought uncert
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the social responsibilities of comp
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areas after recapitalisation 11 . I
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Furthermore, the funds in many case
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privatised with a view to stimulati
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asset stripping, and the offering o
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dividend to Valentia.The second pub
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***The three country case studies o
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eturns well below those achieved by
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investment funds - in the UK alone
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4.2 The issue of pension fundsThe p
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One year earlier the British Financ
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the fund exceeds the highest value
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5.3 Short sellingHistorically, hedg
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global financial markets. In 1998 t
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implications associated with the li
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The classic source of leverage is l
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I talk to have got a prayer in the
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The main reason for the lack of inf
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7. The need for change to ensure a
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clearly destructive must be prevent
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European Union.Part III is going to
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2. Market transparency - a common i
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International Settlements in Switze
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3.2 The main beneficiaries of regul
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within jurisdictions with enhanced
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In our view, if we want to promote
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investors.The EC should set up an i
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Alternative investment fund manager
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widely differing impacts of PE acti
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estrict investment to specific asse
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Clearly the governance authorities
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paid. There is therefore a need for
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5. Our immediate proposalsIn the pa
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isks are honestly and clearly commu
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Corporate governance provisionsLong
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ANNEX 1 - Case studiesANNEX 1 - Cas
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1. Company description ............
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AA1. Company descriptionThe Automob
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Autoteile Unger1. Company descripti
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Bulgarian Telecommunications Compan
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Deutsche Börse1. Company descripti
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DIS1. Company descriptionThe DIS De
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DT-GROUP1. Company descriptionDT Gr
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(2005 €610m) resulting in an EBIT
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FRANS BONHOMME1. Company descriptio
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Friedrich Grohe AG1. Company descri
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3. LBO exit (secondary LBO, IPO, li
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industrial sector level. A compromi
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Linde1. Company descriptionLinde is
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2.5 Protection of minority sharehol
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marketing outside Germany and to bo
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2.3 Effects on job creation, invest
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Peguform1. Company descriptionThe h
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PICARD1. Company descriptionPicard
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STORK1. Company descriptionThe indu
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TDC1. Company descriptionTDC is the
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TELECOM ITALIA GROUP1. Company desc
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2.5 Corporate governance and econom
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same way like some institutional in
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Viterra1. Company descriptionViterr
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Glossary 1Absolute returns: The ret
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Hurdle rate: A rate of return that
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Stock option: An individual's right