Nike is also near closing a deal, which would dispose of its Cole Haan affiliate brand to Apax Partners.

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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 .

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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.

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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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