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Article: Stock market downturn continuing to fuel public to private boom; REPORT: Private equity investors backed 32 de-listed companies last year.(Business)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2002
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THE downturn in the stock market in 2001 fuelled the continuing public to private (P2P) boom, according to figures released yesterday by the Centre for Management Buy-Out Research.
Its study showed that last year private equity investors backed 32 companies which were de-listed from the stock market with a value of pounds 4.9bn, creating concern that businesses may increasingly shun the public arena.
And while the number of P2Ps in ...