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Mercia leads £5m round for web traffic manager Intechnica
Mercia invests directly from its balance sheet after previously using third party funds
Duke Street exits Baywater after four-year holding
Buyout of Baywater Healthcare was Duke Street's second deal-by-deal financing
Karma, Intel, Practica in $2.3m funding round for CGTrader
CGTrader will use the fresh capital to expand its online 3D graphics marketplace to the US
Q&A with Aztec Group’s Harrison: Outsourcing demystified
Aztec's Harrison speaks with unquote” about modern fund administration and how the role has adapted to a new market
Talis leads $10m series-A for AI legal firm Luminance
Invoke Capital and law firm Slaughter and May also took part in the funding round
BGL shelves IPO, sells 30% stake to CPPIB
Current owners BHL to retain a majority holding in the company after the transaction
Francisco Partners closes fifth fund on $3.98bn
Francisco's latest fund beats its $3.25bn target after less than six months on the road
BGF acquires minority stake in Cornwall Insight
BGF is having a quieter year with 23 deals completed so far in 2017
AIB backs TransferMate with €30m investment
Firms have agreed a strategic partnership to help AIB business customers
Palatine hires portfolio operations director
Gareth Wilson will be focused on improving the performance of portfolio companies
Cairngorm secures majority stake in Thornbridge Sawmills
Deal is the first for the Cairngorm Capital II fund, which closed in April 2017
Inflexion merges insurance brokers Bollington and Wilsons
New company Bollington Wilson Group is expected to generate gross written premiums of around £120m
CCMP sells Pure Gym to Leonard Green in £600m deal
Pure Gym's revenues have increased fivefold over CCMP's four-year ownership
TransferWise in $280m series-E
Deal values the London-based money transfer service at $1.6bn
Preservation Capital backs Ascent Underwriting
New financial-services-focused firm Preservation Capital Partners inks its first deal
Q3 Barometer: Market pauses for breath
European dealflow slows down compared with previous quarter but remains at historically elevated level
Capiton backs wind turbine engineering firm BWTS
Capiton aims to boost the company’s growth domestically and internationally
Idinvest, Temasek back $111m Secret Escapes series-D
Idinvest is increasing its minority stake after first investing 18 months ago
Activa's Alliance Etiquettes bolts on Applic'Etains
Deal will be Activa's fourth bolt-on for the label manufacturing group, which it formed in 2015
Lyceum-backed Briefing Media bolts on Urner Barry
Deal is the second add-on for Briefing Media since Lyceum's buyout of the firm in 2015
Partech promotes Francois-Poncet, hires BAML's Huberson
Both will help manage Partech's Growth fund, which has made eight investments so far
Ardian exits TimeOne
Company was created in 2016 by merging two of Ardian's portfolio companies
Artificial intelligence offers smart opportunities for PE
Once the domain of early-stage VC investors, the AI segment is now attracting the attention of private equity buyers
Accel and Index take part in $385m Deliveroo round
Latest funding round values the delivery company at around $2bn