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...Private equity, on the other hand, has seemed largely immune (despite the expensive debt it heaps on businesses ranging from day care centres for children to hospitals and arcane industrial companies)....
...These types of firms also became the only option when overleveraged companies needed to refinance their debt, à la Finastra and KKR-backed veterinary hospital operator PetVet....
...On Friday, DD’s Eric Platt reported that KKR was following in their footsteps, starting conversations with lenders including Blue Owl Capital over a refinancing of its veterinary clinic and hospital chain...
...“In Israel, anything newly built has to take account of existing landmarks,” says Aby Rosen, co-founder and principal of RFR Holding LLC, which was responsible for converting a 19th-century French hospital...
...Ms Swann takes up her role at IVC, which owns more than 1,100 veterinary clinics and hospitals across Europe, as the company is planning expansion. She is already a member of its board....
...NPR reported that Mr Levinsohn had been named in sexual harassment lawsuits in the early 2000s while he was an executive at Alta Vista, the search engine, and while he was a senior vice-president at Rupert...
...Bertelsmann is buying Relias from private equity owner Vista Equity Partners for a price it said was “in the mid-hundreds of millions” of dollars....
...Systran technology powers online translation services such as Google Translate and Alta Vista’s Babelfish....
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