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 | | Doughty Hanson and Co, one of the leading independent private equity firms in Europe, has closed its latest private equity fund, Doughty Hanson and Co IV, to new investors with total commitments of €1.5 billion. |
 | | The investment strategy for Fund IV is the same as the one established and consistently applied in previous Doughty Hanson investment funds, with the focus on acquiring market-leading, middle market to large-sized European businesses with an enterprise value above €250 million. |
 | | Doughty Hanson and Co Fund III, which began investing in 1998, has already returned US$2.15 billion to investors, representing about 100% of drawn commitments, at a realised multiple of 2.2 times invested capital. |
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