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Article: Guernsey - Pre-Eminent In Private Equity.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
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- June 16, 2008
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Originally published in the Private Equity Wire, Guernsey Supplement, April 2008
Since 2000 Guernsey has been growing its reputation as a leading private equity domicile. There is strong competition between jurisdictions for this business but events of the past few weeks and months have really crystallised the fact that the Island now heads the pack.
What really set the ball rolling was the Guernsey listed fund transaction, KKR Private Equity Investors LP, from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, raising more than US$5bn before being launched on Euronext Amsterdam. It subsequently won 'Equity Deal of the Year' at last year's International Financial ...