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Livingbridge closes Enterprise 3 on £334m
Livingbridge Enterprise 2, the fund's predecessor, closed on £220m in 2015 and made 14 investments
Balderton, GR invest $20m in McMakler
Balderton has used its VC secondaries fund Balderton Capital Liquidity I for the transaction
Atomico leads $56m round for Healx
New investors Global Brain, B-to-V and Intel Capital have invested in the biotechnology company
Westbridge exits LinkFresh
Westbridge SME Fund portfolio company LinkFresh has been sold to a US-based trade buyer
BIVF, Gründerfonds Ruhr lead €12m series-A round for Abalos
Abalos Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing immuno-oncology therapeutics
Nordic Capital's Acino acquires Takeda's primary care portfolio
Coller Capital and Goldman Sachs acquired a stake in Acino in 2018 in a GP-led secondary transaction
Tenzing invests in Eikon
YFM Private Equity made a growth investment in the digital post-production company last year
Hiro holds first close for debut fund
Hiro Capital I is a fund focused on the games and digital sports technology sectors
Thoma Bravo acquires Sophos in $3.9bn deal
Apax Partners, which holds a 10.15% stake in the cybersecurity firm, will sell its holding
Cairngorm acquired Chandlers
Cairngorm Capital will merge this latest acquisition with three other portfolio companies
Treasure hunt: striking the right origination mix
Unquote explores technology-led advances and the evolution of the more traditional models
Reed Smith appoints Baker as partner
Colin Baker was previously Counsel at Goodwin Procter and an associate at SJ Berwin
NVM invests £3.2m Tutorful
NVM Private Equity has made its eighth growth capital investment of 2019 in the tutoring platform
CVC Credit appoints Haaijman as head of client services
Haaijman previously worked at Alcentra as global head of product management and at JP Morgan
Marlin invests in SmartSearch
US-based firm Marlin Equity Partners closed its most recent vehicle on $2.5bn in 2017
Alcuin takes minority stake in Gravitas
Alcuin Capital Partners has invested for a minority stake in recruitment company Gravitas
Exponent-backed Meadow Foods acquires Nimbus Foods
Exponent acquired Meadow Foods in 2018 drawing equity from its third-generation fund
German banks lose position to debt funds
Private debt funds have supported the lion’s share of the German mid-market recently, with banks' risk aversion being cited as a key driver
Vitruvian-backed CFC bolts on Solis Security
Solis security will expand CFC's in-house cyber claims and incident response team
Livingbridge invests £15m in Nationwide Hire
Livingbridge drew equity from its Enterprise 2 fund, which closed on £220m in 2015
Sidley hires Proskauer partner
Eleanor Shanks joins Sidley Austin's private equity practice from Proskauer Rose
ArchiMed-backed Micromed bolts on OSG
MicroMed has now made three acquisitions in the neurology diagnostics market with this acquisition
VCs in £27m series-A for MiroBio
Advent Life Sciences, SR One, Oxford Science Innovation and Samsara Biocapital have invested
HarbourVest, Hamilton Lane in Bridgepoint Europe IV restructuring
Bridgepoint Europe IV, which closed on €4.8bn in 2008, still holds a number of assets