Nike is also near closing a deal, which would dispose of its Cole Haan affiliate brand to Apax Partners.
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Now both Apax and TPG are considering buying a stake in Sawiris' firm, the Wall Street Journal reported in October.
Semler was infuriated further when he learned that TPG and Apax bought out Q-Telecom, Greece's fourth-largest cell carrier, for 14.3 times annualized trailing earnings.
And even some big firms are claiming to specialise in several things: for example, Apax says it has built expertise in six carefully selected industries.
APAX's first German fund, launched in 1991, attracted no local money.
Also, there is continuing speculation among the British press that Alliance Boots could yet receive rival offers from private-equity rivals Blackstone Group and Britain's Apax Partners .
In August 2005, shortly before minority shareholders were set to get bought out, Semler asked TIM Hellas' TPG-Apax-controlled board to appoint an independent fairness committee to assess the price.
In the case of Bundesdruckerei, a state-owned printing works bought by Britain's Apax Partners in 2000, the inflexibility of the workforce and various other factors produced too little cashflow to service its debt.
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He claims that two private equity firms, Texas Pacific Group and Apax Partners, committed securities fraud by driving down the stock price of a Greek company listed on Nasdaq that his fund had a stake in and hiding a potentially higher takeover offer.
Some of the firms that are well-represented include Accel (Qlik, Riverbed), Apax (RealPage, IntraLinks), Battery Ventures (RealPage, ITA), Bessemer Venture Partners (Postini, Cornerstone), Index Ventures (Skype, MySQL), Insight Venture Partners ( SolarWinds, Divx), Meritech Capital Partners (Cornerstone OnDemand, Riverbed), and Spectrum Equity (RiskMetrics, ITA Software).
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