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Clearwater promotes Loudon to partner
Corporate finance house has made numerous senior appointments since the start of 2018
Duke Street reaps 3.4x from £559m Wagamama trade sale
GP has sold the UK casual dining chain to listed trade buyer The Restaurant Group
Downing injects £7m into Anker
Deal is the GP's second investment in the shipping industry in seven months
Marlborough hires Lloyds' Welsh to lead fund finance efforts
Welsh leaves his role in Lloyds' financial sponsors division after 14 years at the company
Limerston's AdviserPlus acquires Succeed, backs Elementsuite
Deals for the HR software businesses come two years after the GP acquired AdviserPlus
Finncap acquires Cavendish Corporate Finance
Deal is the latest in a series of consolidation plays in the financial services advisory space
Accel et al. divest Blue Vision to Lyft
Augmented reality developer will be integrated into Lyft's self-driving development division
Caledonia sells Choice Care to Icon for £152.5m
Sale of the care group generated a 1.9x return for the vendor following a five-year holding
Livingbridge reaps 2.4x on £52m Symphony trade sale
Transaction for the automated operational processes firm comes 14 months after the GP's investment
Hg Saturn holds final close on £1.5bn hard-cap
Software-dedicated vehicle is already 40% deployed across investments in Visma and Iris
Palatine sells MJ Quinn telecoms arm to Visabeira/Constructel
Partial exit from the infrastructure services firm comes 10 years after the GP's initial investment
BBVA and Anthemis launch London-based fintech incubator
Project will look to support companies from start-up thorugh to their seed funding rounds
Inflexion's ITM bolts on Faraday Tracing Bureau
Deal is the first bolt-on for the financial services IT and software company under the GP's tenure
Rutland sells assets of arson-struck Gardman to Westland
Newly developed warehouse of garden products business was destroyed by fire in March
Maven reaps 2.7x on sale of Cursor to DiscoverIE
Sale of trackball manufacturer brings to an end a three-year holding period for the fund manager
Endless sells Affinity Workforce to Castlerock Recruitment
Deal for the recruitment business brings to an end a holding period of just 16 months
Carlyle acquires EnerMech from Lime Rock
Deal reportedly values the Scottish oilfield services provider in the ТЃ425-450m range
Rutland's Aston Barclay bolts on TCBG
Deal for the online car trading platform comes 16 months after the GP acquired Aston Barclay
Dawn Capital leads £22.9m round for Garrison
Expansion deal for the web browsing software provider comes 19 months after its ТЃ12m series-A
Platinum sells Exterion to Global for £400m
Sale of the billboard company comes 16 months after the vendor reportedly aborted a previous auction
Blackstone acquires NEC from LDC
Transaction reportedly values the Birmingham-based exhibitions organiser at more than ТЃ800m
Endless acquires American Golf from Sun European Partners
Deal for golf retailer reportedly follows a quick-fire sale and values the chain at less than ТЃ10m
Impact investing: making a splash
As high-profile GPs launch impact-dedicated funds, progress is being made in efforts to identify metrics by which to measure performance in the space
PE-backed LeasePlan withdraws IPO
Dutch fleet management business had been scheduled to float in Amsterdam and Brussels in October