One of the few points of consensus about the 2010 outlook among European investors is that organic growth opportunities will be thin on the ground. Most fund managers, it seems, would prefer to back a well-known management team with a clear acquisition strategy.
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“If a management team has successfully executed a buy-and-build strategy, it may be possible to get blind funding for acquisitions but there is not a lot of trust out there” Rupert Mitchell, Jefferies International |
“There was a definite shift in investor appetite towards growth financing in the US at the tail end of May.
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