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BC wins Migros with extra equity investment

The BC Partners-led private equity consortium making Turkey’s largest buyout has agreed to invest more than 50% of the deal initially as equity.

Typically, leveraged buyouts use equity for a third of the agreed price with the remainder funded with debt, but in wake of the liquidity crisis that began last summer borrowing packages have become more difficult to raise.

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