Private Equity / LBO / MBO

Getty Images, a global creator and distributor of still imagery, video and multimedia products today announced the completion of its acquisition by The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), in a transaction valued at approximately $3.3 billion.

The exercise of fundraising is about selling a project to a demanding guest, since his job is just to filter the projects that have the potential and «sniff nuggets» ...

After having suffered the effects of the financial crisis of 2008, and contrary to Cassandre who announced the inexorable decline of the LBO industry, it must be said that LBOs have seen a revival of interest since 2010. Is it a real recovery or just a temporary upturn?

What a pity that those acquisitions or mergers in which the due diligence have been the most well researched, with the most detailed business plan, the most unanimously approved strategies, are not those which are always the most successful in the long term

This time, it’s not about the French soccer club, Olympique de Marseille, but a historical trading group called « Louis Dreyfus Commodities »…