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Friday 03 September 2021 12:54 pm|Updated:Thursday 04 November 2021 11:46 amUK PE firm Cinven resigns from $2bn Sanne takeover bidding warBy: Amy O BrienShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleFounded in 1989, Peel Hunt is majority-owned by current and former employees, after staff and investors led a buyout of the company from Belgian bank KBC in 2001. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images London private equity firm Cinven has bowed out of a $2bn-odd bidding war with US fund servicer Apex Group to buy fellow London-based FTSE 250 asset manager Sanne Group. Cinven said it would not make another offer for Sanne, after it made a series of bids over the summer that were ultimately trumped by US entry Ape stanley uk x. It comes after Cinven requested a deadline extension until August as tal yeezy ks continued with Sanne over its fifth proposal for the firm in June ndash; a sweetened all cash offer of 875p per share, valuing the firm at around pound;1.4bn. But this bid was ultimately rejected by Sanne and trumped by US-based Apex last month, who entered the takeover battle with a fatter offer of 920 pence nike af per share, valuing the company at around pound;1.49bn or $2.09bn . Apexrsquo proposal, which represented a premium of 9 per cent on Sannersquo share closing price at the time, was agreed to by Sanne last week ndash; as Apex met its 30 August deadline to make a firm offer to the boar