Oakley Share Discussion Threads

[hello dolly] 17/1/2011 16:48

3 trades after close.

Phone only?

[double6] 17/1/2011 16:25

Do you not fell the £340mln price tag is a bit too good to be true ??

[hello dolly] 17/1/2011 16:04

Oakley Capital, the British buyout group founded by serial entrepreneur Peter Dubens, has put German price comparison site verivox.com up for sale with a £340m price

[double6] 17/1/2011 16:03

LOL!!

Just found the accurate info in the accounts!

[hello dolly] 17/1/2011 16:02

340 million

[double6] 17/1/2011 16:02

What's the value of Verivox ?

[topinfo] 17/1/2011 15:54

*DJ Oakley Capital Investments Limited Statement re press speculation

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Oakley Capital Investments Limited

17 January 2011

17 January 2011

Oakley Capital Investments Limited

Statement re Press Speculation

Oakley Capital Investments Limited (AIM: OCL, "OCIL"), the AIM-listed company established to provide investors with access to the investment strategy being pursued by Oakley Capital Private Equity L.P. (the "Limited Partnership"), notes the recent press speculation concerning a potential sale of Verivox, one of the Limited Partnership's portfolio investments. OCIL can confirm that the Limited Partnership has received approaches in relation to Verivox and is in the early stages of exploring its options.

Further announcements will be made if appropriate.

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Oakley Capital Investments Limited [phone]

6900

Peter Dubens (Director)

Financial Dynamics [phone]
3113
Juliet Clarke / James Macey-White

Liberum Capital Limited (Nominated [phone]
Adviser & Broker) 2000
Steve Pearce / Steven Tredget

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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[dudishes] 16/9/2010 15:19

Hi pb, do you still hold? Nice earner for you.

Switched funds from Daisy to OCL mid August last year, also hold a small SB, following a tip from a friend in Bermuda.

Sold Day @ 98 and bought these @ 78.

Continue to look underpriced.

cheers

[rockafella2] 17/8/2010 13:22

Latest note:

[investinggarden] 22/7/2009 10:26

Speculative Buy rating from Growth Company Investor

[pork belly] 13/10/2008 07:36

10 Oct 08 - 58p/60p .




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FINANCIAL TIMES - 09 Oct 08


An acorn to watch?

Oakley Capital Investments slipped onto Aim slightly more than a year ago with no fanfares. It raised £100m from, among others, Invesco Perpetual, which has a stake of 25 per cent, Fidelity, Schroders and Gartmore. The shares were priced at 100p and the interim results, published last month, showed net asset value per share at 101p after three investments.

The company late last week bought back 7 per cent of the equity at 60p a share. This is interesting only after taking into account the record of Peter Dubens, its founder, who has £15m of his own money in the vehicle.

Mr Dubens made his fortune between the years 2001 and 2006. He developed Ukbetting from an £8m company on Aim into 365Media, which was sold to BSkyB for more than £100m. A similar process took Pipex Communications through nine acquisitions before the separate sales of its broadband and hosting divisions, with the return of £155m in cash to shareholders.

Both companies were turned round in the wake of the dotcom crash when banks were reluctant to lend anything to the telecommunications sector. He sees many parallels with the credit crunch.

Oakley is a feeder to the Oakley private equity fund, which takes a controlling position in small and mid-cap companies. "We are used to working in a constrained and difficult environment, because that's what we have done before," he says.

The three investments so far are Host Europe, a web hosting business; Monument Securities, a global equity and derivatives brokerage; and Headland Media, a satellite and broadcast news provider.

Oakley offers Aim investors who agree that these are potential winners a unique opportunity to back them.

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OCPE acquires Host Europe (Apr 08) -
Oakley Capital Limited, the advisor to Oakley Capital Private Equity L.P., announced on 14 March 2008 that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Host Europe WVS Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire the Host Europe Group for an Enterprise Value of £120 million.

OCPE acquires Headland Media from BSkyB (Jun 08) -
A leading provider of news services to the marine, hotel and retail industries from BSkyB. Headland Media's satellite division provides news, e-mail, internet and weather services via satellite to cruise and merchant ships, as well as hotels in remote locations. The broadcast division of Headland Media provides in-store radio and music services to the retail industry.

OCPE acquires Monument Securities from Insinger (Jul 08) -
Successfully trading since 1991, Monument Securities has built a considerable presence in the derivatives and equity markets and has gained a reputation as an experienced and professional brokerage providing services to UK and US institutional investors, hedge funds and corporate investors.