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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>M&#038;A boardroom buddies work both ways</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe Jorge Cosmen, deputy chairman of National Express, should have waved this paper in front of the board of the UK transport group.

Transactions involving companies sharing board members perform significantly better than other deals, according to a study published earlier this year by researchers at the University of North Carolina....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Tuesday,

- Five suggestions for fixing Wall Street.

- "Roubini's okay but he's not as good as me".

- The world according to Americans.

- Citi: the commodity collapse could be "Subprime Part II".

- Amusing reports: Dimon for US Treasury secretary?

- The cure to Goldman's PR troubles:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Informa eyes deal for Springer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Informa, publisher of Lloyd’s List, has held talks with its rival Springer Science and Business Media over buying the German academic publisher whose private equity owners are looking to sell the whole business at a reduced valuation. Springer, owned by UK buy-out groups Candover and Cinven, was initially negotiating with key private equity rivals to sell a stake of as much as 49% for about €400m....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Private equity chief in rallying call</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new head of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has urged chief executives of private equity-backed companies to speak out to defend the industry against “misguided” EU regulation. Richard Wilson, a partner at Apax Partners, who is to be presented as EVCA’s new chairman on Tuesday,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>JC Flowers adds firepower in UK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JC Flowers, the US private equity group run by dealmaker Chris Flowers, has strengthened its London team after appointing Sir Callum McCarthy, former chairman of the UK’s FSA watchdog body, as European chairman. The US buy-out group has also named David Morgan, former CEO of Australia’s Westpac bank,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/20/84461/further-reading-404/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Friday,

- Investing fads and themes by year, 1996 to present.

- Unintended consequences on Wall Street.

- Chart of the day: How the old gold bugs lost control.

- Analyst date night: Honey let's hit that BofA protest.

- The unbearable pain of 0.01%.

- Wall Street's Grinch speaks to Gasparino....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blackstone in $1.3bn Birds Eye deal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birds Eye Foods is being sold by its private equity owners for $1.3bn to Blackstone’s Pinnacle Foods, it was announced on Thursday. The deal, to be funded with $300m in additional equity from Blackstone and $1bn in debt, provides fresh evidence of a thaw in the long freeze in global dealmaking - at least for consumer brands promising steady cash flows....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>KKR sees Q3 profit amid rebound</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KKR, the US buy-out firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, on Thursday reported a Q3 profit of $656.6m in its first results after becoming a publicly listed company, amid a rebound in buy-outs, reports Bloomberg. But the impact of the Oct 1 merger with its publicly traded European fund included “certain adjustments” that would lower total net income to about $300m,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Matalan draws buy-out groups</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five private equity groups are among the first-round bidders for Matalan, the privately owned UK discount clothing retailer that is being auctioned with an estimated price tag of about £1.5bn. TPG, Blackstone, Warburg Pincus and BC Partners have all submitted indicative bids. Advent International, US buy-out specialist and owner of discount retailer Poundland,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hands warns governments on banks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guy Hands, head of UK buy-out group Terra Firma, has warned that unless governments push banks to restructure $7,000bn of leveraged loans due to mature by 2014, the US and Europe could face the “Japanese problem” of zero growth. Hands, speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Paris, is negotiating with Citigroup to restructure the £2.6bn debt of EMI,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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