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The Vanishing Public Company from Private Equity Findings

Events

May 17, 2021
A roundtable discussion with CD&R Operating Partner Roberto Quarta was featured in Private Equity Findings, a publication of the Coller Research Institute produced in collaboration with Professor Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School. The...
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Media Coverage

May 3, 2021
Private equity has changed significantly in the 30-plus years that Clayton, Dubilier & Rice chairman Donald Gogel has been in the industry but, he explains, the critical ingredients for outperformance remain the same.  
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Press Release

April 29, 2021
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice today announced the completion of the previously announced sale of Capco, a global management and technology consultancy, to Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT). The total purchase price was $1.45 billion.   CD&R funds...
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Events

April 21, 2021
CD&R Co-President Dave Novak addressed a group of family offices at the Single Family Office Roundtable, hosted by the INSEAD Global Private Equity Initiative and Invest Europe.  His comments focused on the constructive partnership between...
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Press Release

April 19, 2021
LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--agilon health, inc. (NYSE: AGL), which partners with primary care physicians to unlock value-based healthcare delivery, announced the closing of its initial public offering of 53,590,000 shares of its common...
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Press Release

April 13, 2021
WILMINGTON, Del. (USA) – Solenis, a leading global producer of specialty chemicals used in water-intensive industries, is proud to announce it has been selected as a 2021 US Best Managed Company. Sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street...
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Press Release

April 1, 2021
The grand prize in the annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition was awarded to Concord Materials, an integrated materials management platform for construction operators powered by advance tech with a fintech solution, and Hive Health,...
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Press Release

March 17, 2021
M2GEN today announced a significant new investment by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (“CD&R”) funds, the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (“Merck GHI”), and McKesson Ventures to recapitalize M2GEN, a leading oncology data and informatics...
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Press Release

March 15, 2021
MFG, the market leading independent forecourt operator with over 900 sites across Great Britain, is pleased to announce its electric vehicle (“EV”) investment plans.  Through this planned investment MFG will be uniquely positioned to lead the...
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March 12, 2021
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has completed the previously announced partnership transaction in which CD&R-managed funds invested alongside current owners and management to acquire S&S Activewear, a leading North American distributor of...
Private Equity International Awards 2007

Media Coverage

CD&R Receives 2007 North American LBO Firm of the Year Award Private Equity International
December 31, 2007
2007 has been an exceptionally productive year for CD&R in terms of realizations, new investments, creating value in the portfolio and building the organization. The Firm has announced realizations generating over $3 billion and deployed (or...

Perspectives

January 1, 2007
All private equity firms seek to maximize the value of their investments. However, there are many different models or routes to this end. What shall be referred to as the “industrial approach” in this chapter is a distinctive model which is based on...

Perspectives

November 27, 2006
What's so good about private equity? A lot.

Media Coverage

The Times (UK)
July 29, 2006
Since 1978, CD&R has been identifying opportunities to acquire non-core corporate orphans – businesses whose operating and financial performance can be enhanced dramatically by the Firm's proactive ownership model. The Times (UK) profiles CD...
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Private Equity International, 2005 Private Equity Analyst, 2005 Buyouts, 2005 The Deal, 2005
December 31, 2005
CD&R Receives 2005 Deal of the Year Awards: Hertz  In December 2005, a CD&R-led investor group completed the acquisition of The Hertz Corporation in a transaction valued at $15 billion. Hertz, formerly a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company (...

Media Coverage

Private Equity International, June 2005
June 1, 2005
CD&R believes its breadth and depth of management experience position it well to acquire businesses across a wide range of industries and with various business characteristics. CD&R's operating partner have broad industry experience that can...
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CD&R Receives 2003 Exit of the Year Award: Kinko’s Private Equity International
March 1, 2004
In February 2004, CD&R completed the sale of Kinkos to FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) for $2.4 billion in cash. CD&R's investment  [PEI Exit of the Year] in Kinko's dates back to December 1996, when a CD&R-managed fund initially acquired...
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CD&R Receives 2001 Exit of the Year Award: Alliant Exchange Buyouts Newsletter
November 1, 2001
In November 2001, CD&R completed the sale of Alliant Exchange, Inc., one of the largest foodservice providers in the U.S.  [Buyouts Logo] with sales of approximately $6.7 billion, to Royal Ahold (NYSE: AHO), the international food retail and...
Donald J. Gogel (left), Chief Executive Officer of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, receives the Private Equity Hall of Fame Award from Steven P. Galante, President of Asset Alternatives, Inc.

Media Coverage

CDR Inducted into Private Equity Hall of Fame
May 1, 2000
Donald J. Gogel (left), Chief Executive Officer of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, receives the Private Equity Hall of Fame Award from Steven P. Galante, President of Asset Alternatives, Inc., publisher of The Private Equity Analyst. Inducted in 2000...
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Perspectives

January 1, 2000
As Yale's chief investment officer, David F. Swensen transformed the management of the university's portfolio, largely by focusing on nonconventional strategies, including a heavy allocation to private equity. Swensen’s chapter on CD&R’s...
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