Global Capital Partners (fka GCPL)

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could this be the website? 3/4/07 news release....

http://www.globalinv.net/contentdisp.asp?PageId=271&nid=272

Global Launches Largest Regional Buyout Fund
Posted: Sunday, March 04, 2007

Capitalizing on its private equity experience, Global Capital Partners Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of Global) launched the ‘Global Buyout Fund L.P.’, which will aim to invest in high-potential companies of the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. The Fund also may invest in Asian countries such as China, India and Pakistan, wherein it may find strong cross linkage with businesses in the Middle East.

Global said that the launch had been inspired by Global’s experience in making private equity investments, its regional relationships and its knowledge and understanding of the market, in addition to the significant untapped buyout potential in the region.

Global is currently managing over US$ 1 billion of private equity funds and have strong relations with investor groups in the region. And Global is physically present in many of the target countries through its offices in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

There are several other factors that have led Global to launch the Buyout Fund at this time: The region’s exchanges have undergone major correction, which has rationalized valuations of most listed, as well as unlisted, private companies. The companies from the region are increasingly looking for cross border acquisitions and business development synergies with international players. Significant reforms are being carried out in the regional capital markets, with conscious effort by the governments to encourage private entrepreneurship.

Global Buyout Fund will look at opportunities to invest in portfolio companies with the objective of participating in or influencing management decisions and thereby enhancing the value of such companies. Global believes that there are many companies in the region which can have significant opportunity when properly managed for financial or business restructuring, operating efficiencies or revenue growth.

The Fund has been endorsed by Bear Stearns International and JP Morgan Cazenove, who are also distributing the same among institutions in Asia, Europe and North America.

Global has one of the largest private equity team in the MENA region. The team is organized into transaction, due diligence and investment follow-up subgroups. The members of Global’s private equity team have diverse sector experience and geographic experience in countries across the MENA region and South Asia, and collectively maintain a broad network of institutional relationships within the regions targeted for investment by the Buyout Fund. Additionally, Global’s long financial research capabilities, and extensive due diligence process will definitely come into play.

The private equity team has successfully completed 35 transactions and committed over USD$ 700 million within a span of 16 months for the two Global Opportunistic Funds in the GCC region, the MENA region (including Turkey), India and China.

Since the corrections seen in the regional stock markets during 2006, the Buyout Fund will allow investors to diversify their portfolios into this alternative asset class and reduce their overall risk while increasing return on investments.

The Fund would give investors an opportunity to benefit from Middle Eastern private equity investments, which had always remained a closely guarded jewel.

It is worth mentioning that The team of Global Capital Partners is one of the largest private equity groups with successful track record of private equity investments across Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, other Middle East, India and China.