ParisFrench firm Bredin Prat has worked alongside the Paris office of UK firm Ashurst Morris Crisp and Chicago-based Kirkland & Ellis’ London office on the $1.1bn leveraged buy-out (LBO) of part of Vivendi’s publishing interests – one of the biggest LBOs of the year.

The London-based private equity house Cinven is leading the buyers, which are taking a 75% stake in the healthcare and business publications of Vivendi Universal Publishing (VUP).