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Livingbridge sells VCT business to Gresham House for £30m
Livingbridge steps away from the VCT space in order to focus on its core private equity activities
European VC fundraising continues strong showing
VC fundraising totals over 2016-2017 marked a healthy increase of nearly 50% on the amounts raised in the previous two-year period
CapMan holds €115m first close for maiden infra fund
CapMan launched its infrastructure-focused investment business in April 2017
Initiative & Finance sells Fil Rouge to Altavia
Marketing business Altavia is minority-backed by Andera Partners (formerly Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners)
Inflexion's Radius Payments buys Adam Phones
Acquisition is the first since the minority investment by Inflexion in January
Midlothian acquires HB Education for £467m
India-based Cox & Kings sells its UK education business, with brands including PGL and Travelworks
Germany's Protembis raises $10m series-A round
Series-A round is backed by a consortium of investors including Seed Fonds III
Primary Capital exits Esteem Systems after 14 years
Primary Capital backed the buyout of the IT services company in 2004 via its second fund
Downing appoints new COO
James Weaver joins Downing after four years as chief operating officer at Amicus Finance
Keensight hires new associate director
Theodor Wuppermann joins the mid-market house after a stint at healthcare-focused ArchiMed
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ECB lending guidelines turn one with little to celebrate
Volume of highly leveraged deals continues to rise, while aggressive adjustments on financial metrics follow suit
EQT Ventures backs Siilo in €4.5m round
Funding will be used to scale up Siilo's user base, with a focus on the UK and Germany
BC hires new investor relations principal
Ardian's Yacine Mancer joins BC to do IR work with a focus on the Middle East region
Landmark backs single-asset secondaries for PAI's Perstorp
PAI has been invested in the speciality chemicals business, the last asset in PAI IV, since 2005
Tail-end funds fuelling secondaries boom
Recent research shows the proportion of tail-end funds in secondaries transactions has been climbing rapidly, reaching a new record in H1 2018
Agilitas appoints new investor relations head
De Pompignan joins from Lyceum, while GP also appoints Rouland as new investment director
Debevoise hires new funds regulatory counsel
John Young joins the firm's funds and investment management group as an international counsel in London
Activa appoints managing partners in succession reshuffle
Michael Diehl sells shares and becomes senior adviser, while brother Charles becomes chair
Northleaf nets $2.2bn for global PE programme
Canadian private markets investor closes its latest secondaries vehicle on $800m
Then and now: European private equity's post-Lehman decade
European PE came to a virtual standstill 10 years ago, but figures show the asset class has all but recovered its pre-crisis appeal
British Private Equity Awards - final call to vote
Final chance to pick your winners in the shortlist for this year's Unquote British Private Equity Awards – voting closes at 5pm today
RPC confirms early takeover talks with Apollo, Bain
GPs now have until 8 October to either announce a firm intention to make an offer or walk away
GIC et al. in $100m round for Acorn OakNorth
Latest funding round values the digital challenger bank at around $2.3bn, three years after inception