French buyouts have slumped this year as the country's business leaders weighed the impact of fiscal changes being launched by the newly elected socialist president François Hollande. Private equity deals in France more than halved to 6.2 billion euros ($8.2 billion) in 2012, from 15 billion euros the previous year, then the biggest volume by value in Europe, according to data compiled by the Center for Management Buyout Research at Imperial College in London. This compares with a 21 percent decline to 49.5 billion euros across...
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