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Four Line Up to Buy UKpound 5 Billion Italian Yellow Pages.

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| June 08, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By Sylvia Pfeifer, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 8--Four private equity consortia are preparing to table bids of more than E5 billion ($5.6 billion, UKpound 3.6 billion) for the yellow pages directories business of Italy's multi-media group Seat Pagine Gialle on Monday, in what is expected to be the continent's biggest leveraged buyout deal.

The four consortia are US buyout funds Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Blackstone Group and Texas Pacific Group; Hicks Muse & Furst and Apax Partners, which own Yell, the company which publishes Yellow Pages; BC Partners, Permira, CVC Capital and Italy's Investitori Associati; and a…

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