headquarters london united kingdom key people stuart mcalpine managing partner products private equity website www.cinven.com cinven is a global private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in 9 international locations in guernsey london new york paris frankfurt milan luxembourg madrid and hong kong that acquires europe and us based corporations and emerging market firms that fit with their core businesses and necessitate a minimum equity investment of 100 million or more . 1 in 2014 it had 11.5 billion in assets under management . 2 cinven s funding base originally came solely from three uk pension funds british coal the railway industry and barclays bank who remain as important investors . 3 cinven has been reported to originally stand for coal investment nominees for venture capital . 4 cinven invests in six sectors on an international basis business services ; technology media and telecommunications ; financial services ; industrials ; healthcare ; and consumer . investments edit cinven is a private equity firm based in london . some of the recent acquisitions include avio in 2006 cinven purchased avio from carlyle and finmeccanica for an enterprise value of 2.6 billion . spire healthcare previously bupa hospitals in june 2007 bupa announced that it had agreed to sell its hospitals business comprising 25 hospitals to cinven for 1.44 billion 2.8 billion 2.13 billion . 5 spire has since acquired the classics hospital group for gbp 145 million as well as a single site hospital in gerrards cross england . gondola holdings acquired in 2007 for 1.36 billion gondola is the market leader in the uk casual dining sector with brands such as pizzaexpress ask zizzi and byron . 6 slv acquired in april 2011 slv is a provider of residential and technical lighting products partnership assurance acquired in 2008 7 sebia acquired in june 2010 cpa global acquired in march 2012 amco created from amdipharm and mercury pharma bought in 2012 merged built up and sold to canada s concordia healthcare in september 2015 for 3.4 billion in cash and shares . 8 ceramtec group acquired in june 2013 9 host europe group acquired in july 2013 cinven agreed to purchase this web hosting firm for around 666 million . 10 medpace in february 2014 cinven agreed to acquire the pharmaceutical contract research organisation from ccmp capital for around 900 million . 11 northgate public services in december 2014 cinven agreed to acquire the public services division of northgate information solutions for an undisclosed amount . 12 labco in may 2015 cinven agreed to acquire this operator of medical diagnostics laboratories for 1.2 billion . 13 kurt geiger in december 2015 cinven acquired uk based fashion retailer kurt geiger from sycamore partners for 245 million . 14 references edit cinven about us cinven website retrieved april 2 2016 2014 in brief cinven website retrieved april 2 2016 the fourth cinven fund completes fundraising at 6.5 billion cinven press release 30 june 2006 cinven looks to rejoin industry s top league . dow jones financial news september 8 2008 bupa agrees hospitals sale bupa press release 18 june 2007 byronhamburgers.com cinven to kick start 750m partnership assurance sale . the telegraph . 17 september 2011 . retrieved 13 september 2013 . cinven to sell amco to concordia healthcare corp private equity wire st helier jersey 8 september 2015 . retrieved 19 september 2015 . the new york times dealbook cinven to buy ceramtec for 2 billion . by mark scott 2013 06 16 reuters 19 july 2013 . deals of the day mergers and acquisitions . reuters . cinven to acquire medpace in 900 million deal . reuters . 23 feb 2014 . retrieved 24 feb 2014 . northgate information solutions sells public services division to cinven . yahoo finance . 22 dec 2014 . retrieved 22 dec 2014 . berry freya 28 may 2015 . buyout group cinven to buy france s labco for 1.3 bln . reuters . grandhi k 2015 12 14 . footwear retailer kurt geiger acquired by cinven from sycamore 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