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Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services

Market: 
VC
Type: 
MBO
Industry: 
Transport
Raised: 
£9.75 million
Date: 
Jan 2008

Contacts

CEO: Dean De Beer +44 (0)1895 432000

Advisers

Barclays Private Equity

5 North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 4BB
Chris Elliot
020-7512 9900

Comment

Private equity house Octopus has backed a management buy-out at Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services, a UK-based company which serves clients in 44 countries. The £9.75 million deal was part-financed by an investment of £4.8 million from Octopus’s private equity and intermediate capital funds.

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