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• CompuCom Systems Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire North American Operations of Getronics

  - 2008-06-23

  Company Enters into Global Agreement with Getronics to Provide IT Outsourcing Services on a Worldwide Basis DALLAS -- CompuCom Systems, Inc., a leading North American-based IT outsourcing company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the North American operations of Getronics, a global provider...

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• Valcon Acquistion B.V. Announces Pricing of Tender Offer for Any and All of the Outstanding 7.60% Notes due 2009 Issued by Nielsen Media Research, Inc.

  - 2006-08-03

  AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, August 3 /PRNewswire/ -- - Not for Distribution to any Italian Person or to any Person or Address in the Republic of Italy Valcon Acquisition B.V. ("Valcon"), a company controlled by a private equity group consortium consisting of affiliated...

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• Valcon Acquistion B.V. Extends Cash Tender Offer for Any and All of the Outstanding 7.60% Notes due 2009 Issued by Nielsen Media Research, Inc.

  - 2006-07-25

  AMSTERDAM, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ANY ITALIAN PERSON OR TO ANY PERSON OR ADDRESS IN THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY Valcon Acquisition B.V., a company controlled by a private equity group consortium consisting of affiliated funds of AlpInvest...

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• Investor Group Led by Lightyear Capital to Acquire and Grow Sirius America; New Capital and Executive Additions Position Company for Significant Growth in Program Specialty Insurance; White Mountains Insurance Group Remains a Significant Investor

  - 2006-04-12

  NEW YORK -- Lightyear Capital, LLC ("Lightyear"), a private equity firm focused on financial services, announced today that it is partnering with a highly respected investor group that includes Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking ("Lehman") and AlpInvest Partners ("AlpInvest") to acquire a majority equity stake in Sirius America Insurance Company ("Sirius"),...

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• VNU Agrees To Public Offer From Private Equity Group That Values Company at EUR 28.75 Per Common Share, or Approximately EUR 7.5 Billion in Cash

  - 2006-03-08

  HAARLEM, Netherlands -- VNU N.V. (PINK SHEETS:VNUVF) (AEX:VNU): --Offer represents a multiple of 13.4 times 2005 normalized EBITDA, an attractive valuation compared with recent trading of peer company stocks as well as VNU's stock --Consortium intends to keep VNU substantially together as an integrated company pursuing existing long-term...

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• Equity firm leases space at 500 Fifth Avenue

  - 2006-02-22

  Colliers ABR, Inc. announced that Halyard Capital Management, a private equity firm focused on media, communications, and business services industries, has signed a 7-year sublease for 7,900 s/f at 600 Fifth Avenue. Halyard Capital Management will move out of its former parents', Bank of Montreal's, headquarters at 3 Times...

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• Equity firms size up VNU.(Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven B.V.)

  - 2006-01-17

  VNU, the Dutch group that owns ACNielsen, Billboard and the Hollywood Reporter, said Monday a posse of private equity firms has offered to buy it for about $9 billion. VNU "will proceed with discussions" with the buyout firms--the Blackstone Group, Carlyle...

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• Rock Center makes room for investors

  - 2005-08-03

  CRESA Partners has negotiated a midtown Manhattan lease transaction that provides Europe-based AlpInvest Partners with nearly 18,000 s/f of office space at 630 Fifth Avenue at Rockefeller Center. AlpInvest, a private-equity investment management firm headquartered in Amsterdam, is relocating from 600 Fifth Avenue under terms of a ten-year, six-month...

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• DPL Agrees to Sell Private Equity Investments

  - 2005-02-14

  DAYTON, Ohio -- DPL Inc. (NYSE:DPL) today announced that certain of its subsidiaries have entered into an agreement to sell the Company's interests in forty-six private equity funds to AlpInvest/Lexington 2005, LLC, a joint venture of AlpInvest Partners and Lexington Partners Inc. The sale is expected to generate estimated net...

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• Strategy Selection: Dream Team - AlpInvest reaches summit.

  - 2004-08-01

  AlpInvest Partners jumped to the top of the premier league of private equity business winners in Europe when it was awarded E6bn in mandates from major Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM at the start of February. This took its total assets under management to E20bn from...

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