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Paragon buys Unicepta
Company's management has retained a minority stake and will remain in control of strategy
Hughes Armstrong-backed Davy Markham goes into administration
Yasmin Bhikha and John Lowe of FRP Advisory were appointed joint administrators on 26 February
VC firms invest $4m in Senic
Manufacturer of building systems technology Gira also takes part in the financing
LP direct investment: straight to the source
Limited partners are striking out on their own to source their investments directly, with numeorus new strategies emerging
Horizons co-leads $15m funding round for Owlstone
Aviva Ventures co-led the round, which also saw investment from existing investors
Perusa to launch third fund
Perusa Partners II held a final close on €207m in November 2011 and is deployed across 10 deals
Macquarie hires Intel Capital's Jorgensen
Jorgensen will support Macquarie's infrastructure technology and growth capital initiatives
ECM buys Albrecht & Dill
Previous owner and extended management team will acquire a minority stake in the new company
Capiton buys Ispin
Ispin's management team and co-founders Marco Marchesi and Stefan Napflin also invest
VC firms in €22m round for Foodspring
Corporate venture division of New Zealand-based dairy exporter Fonterra also took part
SwanCap holds final close on €433m
Fund will invest in primaries, direct co-investments and secondaries in Europe and North America
Deals accelerate in German online marketplaces
Three transactions in the space within the first two months of 2018 saw PE firms invest a combined €500m and cash out more than €700m
Cerberus- and JC Flowers-led consortium acquires HSH Nordbank
Non-performing loans valued at approximately €7bn will be acquired by the consortium separately
Haspa BGM, Schulz Systemtechnik buy Keil Anlagenbau
Haspa invests in buyouts and growth capital transactions for German mid-market companies
ECI-backed ATG buys Lot-tissimo
Combined group will host 18,000 auctions a year, with more than £2bn under the hammer
Cairngorm promotes two
Bayliss and Naylor-Leyland are both founding members of Cairngorm's investment team
Hg launches Saturn fund
Naming convention follows Hg's Mercury series, which targeted the small-cap space
HSH Nordbank sale to be decided on Wednesday
JC Flowers owns a 5.1% in the bank and 94.9% is held by states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein
LP consortium announces $1.5bn seed platform
Venture is advised by Wafra and expects to deploy $1.5bn over the next five years
Lexington returns to market with record secondaries raise
Lexington held a final close for LCP VIII on its $10.1bn hard-cap in April 2015
Capvis to close fifth fund on hard-cap
More than 80% of LPs reupped into the fourth fund, which closed on its €720m hard-cap in 2014
GA backs ProSiebenSat.1's Nucom
Oakley sells minority stakes in portfolio companies Parship and Verivox at a combined EV of €970m
Equistone sells E Winkemann to Cathay Capital
Equistone makes the divestment from its €1.5bn buyout fund Equistone Europe Partners IV
Carlyle sells The Sniffers to trade
Sale ends a holding period of six years for Carlyle, which bought the company in December 2011