SOME OF THE biggest names on the UK high street, such as PizzaExpress, Holmes Place, Selfridges and Allders, have succumbed to public-to-private (PTP) bids this year. In the first weeks of last month alone, Macdonalds Hotels in Scotland received a Bank of Scotland-backed management buyout offer and Iceland-based retail group Baugur snapped up London toy store Hamleys.
In continental Europe, Hg Capital has secured German car parts maker WET Automotive and Advent International is in the process of taking Romanian pharmaceuticals firm Terapia private in one of eastern Europe’s first PTP transactions.
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