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DeA's Taste of Italy fund backs Casa Vinicola Botter
Food and agriculture specialist fund acquires a minority stake in the Italian wine producer
DeA launches second corporate credit recovery fund
Idea CCR II, a debtor-in-possession vehicle, has already reached a first close on €300m
FSI buys minority stake in Cedacri
Italian mid-market growth equity fund has acquired a 27% stake in the fintech group
Investindustrial acquires London-based furniture group Oka
Co-founder Annabel Astor will remain as chairperson, with Peter Taylor staying on as chief executive
Progressio holds first close for Fund III on €86m
Italian mid-market specialist plans to reach a final close by the end of Q2
Bain Capital acquires Fedrigoni for €650m
BNP Paribas, HSBC, UBI Banca ad KKR are joint bookrunners on the deal for the paper producer
TA buys Old Mutual Wealth's Single Strategy division
As of 30 September 2017, the Single Strategy business had ТЃ25.7bn in funds under management
Investindustrial acquires CEME from Investcorp for €280m
New GP will own 97% of the pump and valve maker, with the remainder held by management
Corpfin Capital acquires majority stake in Kids&Us
English academy for young children targets €21m in revenues for 2017
Epiris expands team with Atwal hire
Atwal joins from Bain & Company, prior to which he spent four years at Morgan Stanley
LSP closes €280m healthcare fund
Fund is the largest in Europe dedicated purely to medical technology investments
Maven exits SPS with 3x return
Sale of SPS to PE-backed PF Concept represents Maven's 13th exit since January 2014
Mercia invests £2.5m in Medherant
Investment is part of a ТЃ3.8m funding round from other private investors and existing shareholders
Tenzing appoints Investec's Murray to investment team
Third recent hire for the investment team after Messer and Reynolds joined last month
Miura, Demeter sell Contenur to US PE firm Acon
Acon Investments takes over with management retaining a significant stake in the business
Conor Venture brings on board Niklas Savander
In his new role, Savander will support the VC's activities in Sweden and Finland
Banca IMI and DeA Capital launch SPAC
Ideami will target non-listed medium-sized Italian companies
Eurazeo, BPI France join forces to invest €35m in Doctolib
Eurazeo makes a €17m contribution to the round, with the remainder coming from BPI France
Fondo II Tech Growth in €9m funding round for BeMyEye
Fondo Italiano d'Investimento's tech growth fund contributes €6.3m to the round
AnaCap's Aldermore to recommend takeover offer from FirstRand
Deal would value the UK bank, which listed in 2015 and is still backed by AnaCap, at ТЃ1.1bn
Livingbridge makes suite of new hires
GP has appointed Simone Girardeau and Simon Hollingsworth to its value strategy group
Bridgepoint makes new hire for nascent credit project
Michael Lucas joins from the leveraged finance and sponsor coverage team at ING
Terra Firma refinances Wyevale Garden Centres
Terra Firm acquired the company, then known as The Garden Centre Group, from Lloyds in 2012
Beechbrook appoints Petty to Manchester team
Petty was previously in Deloitte's debt advisory team