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Granville attracts media attention

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UK banking firm Granville & Co. was involved with two major takeovers which the UK media has given wide coverage to in 1998. Granville advised Getty Communications in its bid to purchased Allsports for 30 million pounds sterling. Granville & Co. director Richard Donner says the firm has been focusing on staffing and IT sectors in 1997, which has paid off with several high profile deals being signed. Granville's largest commission in 1997 was advising in Sketchley's 37 million pounds sterling bid for ARM Group.

Media coverage, Granville and Co.

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Deutsche Bank

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Deutsche Bank's leveraged finance team targets transactions of more than 100 million pounds sterling. Notable deals completed by the team include work for Ducati, Eversholt, Hurst Publishing, and SEAT. The bank has pioneered new forms of debt finance, including asset-backed securitisation and receivables securitisation. Deutsche Bank ranked first in the May 1998 'Acquisitions Monthly' league tables among European buyout debt arrangers and mezzanine arrangers in 1997.

Management, Europe, Deutsche Bank AG, Leveraged buyouts

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Hot air of an entrepreneur

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Barclays Private Equity has acquired Warner Howard, the washroom facilities provider in the United Kingdom. Details of Warner Howard's privatisation one year before the acquisition, as well as legal and financial details of the deal are discussed.

Plumbing and Heating, Except Electric, Plumbing & Heating Equip, Ventilation, Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Building materials, Cleaning services industry, Barclays Private Equity, Warner Howard Group PLC

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