Cinven

Cinven is a British private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Currently, the company has raised four funds, with the last one signing up €6.5 billion. Cinven is solely focused on European acquisitions and buyouts, with investment coming from over 150 institutional investors from 23 countries.

Cinven’s funding base originally came solely from three UK pension funds (British Coal, the Railway Industry and Barclays Bank) who remain as important partners.^[1] Cinven has been reported to originally stand for Coal Investment Nominees' for Venture Capital.^[2]

Cinven invests in six sectors on an international basis: Business Services; Consumer; Financial Services; Healthcare; Industrials; and TMT.

Investments

Cinven is one of the largest and most influential private equity firms in Europe. Some of their recent acquisitions include:

• Avio — In 2006, Cinven purchased Avio from Carlyle and Finmeccanica for an enterprise value of €2.6 billion.

• Spire Healthcare (previously BUPA Hospitals) — In June 2007, BUPA announced that it had agreed to sell its hospitals business, comprising 25 hospitals, to Cinven for £1.44 billion ($2.8 billion/€2.13 billion).^[3] Spire has since acquired the Classics Hospital Group for GBP 145 million, as well as a single site hospital in Gerrards Cross, England.

• Gondola Holdings — acquired in 2007 for €1.36 billion, Gondola is the market leader in the UK casual dining sector, with brands such as PizzaExpress [1], ASK, Zizzi and BYRON.^[4]

• Amadeus^[5] — in 2005 Cinven bought Amadeus, the global leader in distribution solutions for the travel and tourism industries, for €4.4 billion.^[6]

• SLV - acquired in April 2011, SLV is a provider of residential and technical lighting products

References

External links

• Official website