Tuesday, January 5, 2010

CVC Capital Partners

CVC Capital Partners is one of today’s leading global private equity and investment advisory firms. Established way back in 1981, the firm now maintains a network of 19 offices all over Asia and Europe, as well as in certain parts of the United States, in addition to its main headquarters in Luxembourg.

CVC stands distinctively in the midst of the private equity industry. This is mainly due to the extensiveness of its office network, as well as to the length of time it has been active in several countries, combined with the depth of the knowledge of its investment professionals. CVC Capital Partners is armed with the capability to combine and deliver vast cross border resources in order to obtain high quality companies and help them realize their full potential. The firm’s local knowledge and expertise emphasizes the success that it has attained throughout the 27 years of its existence.

The firm places more of its focus towards establishing businesses over the long term, while typically holding investments for five years or more. The firm’s funds possess a variety of portfolio investments. CVC Capital Partners collaborates effectively with the management teams of their portfolio companies, as well as with industrial advisors and appointed non-executive directors, in order to develop strategies that would enhance their portfolio company’s overall performance while leaving it to realize a lasting value.

The firm believes that through an effective combination of ownership and management, the company becomes more capable of creating benefits for the whole of its stakeholders, employees, customers, suppliers, as well as to the wider community.

CVC Capital Partners’ investors receive distributions from the gains produced from the firm’s various investments that include public and corporate pension plans, insurance companies, financial institutions, university endowments, and even through investments from individuals.