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The French winter holidays this February and March were a welcome break for private equity players in Paris, their bankers and lawyers because in the previous few years the market was so hot that many of them had to cancel their trips to Europe's ski slopes and the toastier climes of the DOM-TOM.
In today's market, however, the large LBO space has shut down just as it has in every other market leaving large LBO houses with very little to do unless they are prepared to consider deals in the already strongly populated mid-market in France or to follow the example of US LBO houses and diversify into other investment areas such as real ...