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Advent's £3.9bn Cobham take-private likely to go ahead
Advent made a takeover offer of 165 pence per share in cash, which represents a 34% premium in July
August Equity exits Wax Digital
This is the fund's sixth realisation, following the sale of Vet Partners and Compass Community
Foresight sells Idio for 2x return
Insight Venture Partners acquired Episerver, the acquirer, from Accel KKR in 2018
Hermes GPE closes PEC IV on $603.5m
Predecessor vehicle PEC III closed on $389m in October 2017 and is now fully deployed
Arlington acquires Doncasters' forging business
Arlington expects to put fresh capital into the business and grow it through acquisitions
MMC Ventures holds final close for Scale Up Fund on £100m
Bluetower Associates acted as placement agent and Osborne Clarke provided legal advice
Alteri to acquire Steinhoff businesses
Acquired businesses include Bensons for Beds, Harveys Furniture, Relyon and Steinhoff UK Beds
BGF exits Bar Soba
Bar Soba's management team and staff will stay on with the company following the acquisition
Eclipse leads $20m series-A for Wayve
Existing investors Compound, Firstminute and Fly Ventures all participated in the round
Atlantic Bridge leads $10m series-A for Siren
DVI Equity Partners, Frontline Ventures and Enterprise Ireland also take part
Lakestar, Dawn Capital co-lead $37m series-B for Eigen
Existing investors Temasek and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity also participate in the funding round
Inflexion-backed Radius acquires Pure Telecom
Radius first acquired a telecommunications company in October 2018 with Adam Phones
Alcuin acquires Marsden
Marsden's current managing director, Richard Black, will continue to lead the company
LDC-backed Linley & Simpson acquires Beercocks
Financing for the acquisition was provided by Santander Corporate and Commercial Banking
Connection Capital sells JCRA
Connection Capital provided ТЃ6.7m to support the buyout of the business in 2017
BC-backed Advanced acquires CareWorks
CareWorks is Advanced's first acquistion following the investment from BC Partners
Aliter acquires Sponge
Aliter acquired Bolt Learning in May 2019 and concurrently provided financing to acquire Mercurytide
DACH activity skyrockets in Q3 despite looming recession
Aggregate value in DACH for Q3 reached its second highest level at €18.7bn
Balderton VII closes on $400m hard-cap
Balderton VII's predecessor closed on $375m and is now more than 50% deployed over 30 investments
Blackstone to buy stake in MagicLab in $3bn deal
London-based MagicLab owns social networking and dating apps Bumble, Badoo, Lumen and Chappy
Insight invests $8m in Hundred
Hundred offers a portfolio of 34 vitamins that consumers can access through a subscription model
True Venture leads $13m series-A for Wefarm
Existing investors LocalGlobe, ADV and the Norrsken Foundation also participate in the round
LDC-backed Eque2 acquires ClipIt
LDC acquired a significant minority stake in Eque2 from Livingbridge in a ТЃ16m deal in 2017
Mobeus-backed Ludlow acquires Ivan A Hargreaves
Ludlow finances its third acquisition this year with its debt facility provided by Santander