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Will Germany ever live up to its private equity promise?30/09/2003. Source: Advent International. Ralf Huep
 The German middle-market still bears enormous potential if private equity firms are able to ‘wake up' the companies that they invest in, according to Ralf Huep of Advent International.
Huep also believes that although the IPO market remains dead, hope of a resurrection is growing. And in the meantime firms must be prepared to exploit the potential of the secondary buy-out market in order to exit their investments.
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Ralf Huep is general manager of Advent International's Frankfurt office and is responsible for Advent's activities in German-speaking countries. Since 1990, Advent has invested in over 120 european companies, representing a combined enterprise value in excess of E10bn.
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