...within the framework of comprehensive regulation.” In 2006,McCreevy commissioned a group of private equity funds and investment bankers to author the background “report” for a European Commission White Paper on...
On December 20, the BBC announced that the 2008 “World Challenge” prize had been awarded to the Hashoo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Hashoo Group which owns the Pearl...
...as an umbrella group for private banks and the multilateral lending institutions and be linked to “colleges of supervisors” watching over (in the words of the letter) “the top 30-40...
...staff, including the Head of Zone Europe, Luis Cantarell, who used it to describe his vision of the Group’s development in Europe. In December 2006, the Nestlé European Works Council...
...involved with 300,000 enterprises, against a non-PE control group nearly 3 times larger of comparable size, industry and age, in order to assess changes in employment over a 5-year period...
In March 2006, financial market analysts speculated that Goldman Sachs is putting together a group of private-equity funds to make a £30 billion bid for Unilever in its entirety and...
...to Moody’s Investors Services. The payout would put the investors – Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners – in the black on their investment, as they...
In February 2006 Lion Capital and Blackstone Group acquired the European Beverages Division of Cadbury Schweppes plc. The beverages division, formally known as “CSEB” and now “Orangina SAS”, was acquired...
...Wyndham International hotel group for US$1.44 billion and subsequently sold the brand and franchise system to Cendant. In Europe, Blackstone recently bought the Hospitality Europe hotel group for US$790 million....