CVC Capital Partners

CVC Capital Partners is a global private equity fund best known in elsewhere's coverage for its 2014 acquisition of the Chinese restaurant chain Qiao Jiangnan (俏江南) for $280 million, taking an 82.7% stake — a deal that later turned into a decade-long commercial dispute involving cross-border M&A traps and leveraged-buyout techniques . The firm's name also surfaces in the career history of Chinese investors who passed through it: Fu Zheng (符正), who later founded Guangdian Capital in 2016 and then Fengyuan Capital in 2022, previously worked at "UBS, CVC Capital Partners and other international asset-management institutions" . In the 2017 "36Under36" list of young investors, Zhu Yonghua (朱拥华) of Meituan Longzhu was noted as possibly the only participant from a corporate/industry fund background, though he was described as being "from CVC" in a way that appears to reference the broader CVC category rather than this specific firm .