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Seven private equity firms and two investment banks are interested in the toxic real-estate assets that will be segregated by Spanish banks this year, El Mundo reports in its Monday Internet edition.

The interested companies are: Cerberus Capital Management, Lone Star Funds, Patron Capital Partners, Fortress Investment Group, Benson Elliot Capital Management, Matlin Masterson, and Doughty Hanson, as well as Morgan Stanley (MS) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the report said, citing unidentified financial industry sources.

Newspaper Web site: www.elmundo.com

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