Dealmaker Amanda Staveley has her eye on some hot property

Dealmaker Amanda Staveley has her eye on some hot property - Telegraph Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Mandrake feed | All feeds Advertisement Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news, sport, business, latest UK and world news. Content from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and video from Telegraph TV. Enhanced by Google Home News Sport Finance Comment Travel Lifestyle Culture Fashion A - Z Jobs Dating Puzzles  Offers UK World Politics Celebrities Obituaries Weird Earth Science Health News Education Topics News Video Home News News Topics Mandrake Dealmaker Amanda Staveley has her eye on some hot property Although reports of a merger between her and the Duke of York proved wide of the mark, Amanda Staveley, the City dealmaker who secured a £7 billion stake in Barclays for a group of Middle Eastern investors last year, appears to be back on the prowl.   Tim Walker Last Updated: 5:09PM BST 15 Apr 2009 Amanda Staveley Photo: JANE MINGAY "I am starting to see opportunities," says Miss Staveley, hearteningly. She says that as her London-based private equity house, PCP Capital Partners, recognised the potential of the banking sector two years ago, it is now interested in retail and property. "There will, I think, be some huge returns to be made in those sectors," she says. "There are some valuations there, particularly where distressed sellers are involved, that are beginning to look extremely attractive."   Related Articles Jamie Foxx backtracks over Miley Cyrus Deutsche Post eyes Royal Mail Argyll Partners loses German Woolworth chain to insolvency Manchester United close to new shirt sponsorship deal with Prudential MBO close at troubled Robert Dyas chain Goldmans joins the fray for Barclays $5bn iShares unit Miss Staveley adds in an interview with the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority's magazine Think that she has never felt discriminated against in the Middle East. "Sometimes I am asked if it has ever been difficult for me to do business in the region because I am a woman, but that has not been my experience. If anything, in the West it seems sometimes a lot harder for me than in the Middle East. "The Western media have put me in the spotlight in a way that I have never really regarded as helpful for someone involved in the sort of work I am. There isn't the sort of press interest in me in the Middle East and I welcome that because I can just get my head down and get on with what I have do."

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