MutualFundWire.com: A Los Angeles Fund Firm Scotches Talk of Private Equity Suitors

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A Los Angeles Fund Firm Scotches Talk of Private Equity Suitors

Jeffrey Gundlach, chief investment officer of TCW Group, was quoted by Reuters on Tuesday afternoon as saying that he has not met with any private equity firm regarding the possibility of purchasing the Los Angeles asset manager.

Jeffrey Gundlach
TCW
CIO

"No private equity firm has spoken to me with definitive interest and it is very unlikely to me that any buyer advancing beyond a preliminary stage would do so without talking to me, since I manage 70 percent of assets," Gundlach told Reuters.

Gundlach's comments comes in the wake of a report in the New York Post Tuesday morning that a number of private equity firms, including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have held talks with TCW Group's French parent with an eye toward a buyout of the asset manager. The Post cited unnamed sources.

The paper also quoted interim TCW CEO Marc Stern as saying private equity firms could take part in a recapitalization of TCW. Stern denied that Societe Generale would entertain the idea of an outright sale of TCW.

"Whether private equity could be involved is something that could be considered," he said.

SocGen purchsed a majority stake in TCW in 2001. In January, the French bank announced that it was looking into a sale or recapitalization of the firm.

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