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Deals

UK - Charterhouse to acquire Giles from Gresham for £185m

Insurance broker Giles is to be acquired by Charterhouse in a £185m secondary buyout from Gresham Private Equity. Gresham bought Giles in July 2006 in a £45m deal.

  • Buyouts
  • 25 February 2008
UK - Close Ventures invests £1.5m in Opta Sportsdata

Close Ventures has invested £1.5m into Opta Sportsdata Ltd (trading as Opta), a European provider of sports data and analysis to media companies. The investment will be used to help grow sales in the existing business in the UK and the rest of Europe.

  • Expansion
  • 25 February 2008
UK - Graphite acquires Kurt Geiger from BPE for £95m

Graphite Capital has acquired shoe retailer Kurt Geiger from Barclays Private Equity (BPE) for £95m. BPE had owned Kurt Geiger since Summer 2005 when it paid £46m for the business. Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland provided a debt package to support...

  • Buyouts
  • 25 February 2008
LGV completes hat trick of healthcare exits

  • Exits
  • 25 February 2008
DENMARK - Sunstone and Creandum lead $10m investment in IPtronics

Sunstone Capital and Creandum have together led a $10.25m series-B round in IPtronics, a Danish semiconductor business.

  • Expansion
  • 22 February 2008
FRANCE – Innovacom invests EUR 2m in Dimelo

Innovacom has invested EUR 2m in Dimelo through its fund Innovacom for a minority share of the company.

  • Early-stage
  • 22 February 2008
UK - Terra Firma and Suez to challenge Montagu takeover of Biffa?

Terra Firma and trade player Suez could mount a last minute takeover bid for waste disposal business Biffa. London-listed Biffa's board recommended a 350p per share offer from Montagu Private Equity and Global Infrastructure Partners earlier this month....

  • Buyouts
  • 22 February 2008
UK - Finance Wales invests £500,000 funding round in pharmaceuticals business

Finance Wales has backed a £500,000 fundraising round for Dee Pharmaceuticals. Dee, based in Wrexham, North Wales, specialises in the sale and marketing of branded prescription pharmaceuticals with particular focus on the misuse of substances of abuse...

  • Early-stage
  • 22 February 2008
UK - Bridgepoint eats up Prêt for £345m and divests Concentric

Bridgepoint has confirmed that it has acquired sandwich chain Prêt A Manger in a deal reported to weigh in at £345m. The investor has also announced that it has sold Concentric, an engineering company it has owned for ten years. Concentric has been...

  • Buyouts
  • 22 February 2008
SWITZERLAND - Lion Capital acquires 32% stake in Hiestand

Lion Capital has agreed to acquire a 32% stake in Hiestand Holding AG, a publicly-traded company listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange. The Hiestand Group is an international service provider of convenience deep-frozen bakery products, in Switzerland, Germany,...

  • PIPEs
  • 21 February 2008
UK - Graphite portfolio company AMS buys Capital Consulting

Graphite Capital-backed Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) is buying Capital Consulting, consolidating AMS’ leading position in the European market for recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). AMS is the largest independent provider of RPO solutions to blue-chip...

  • Expansion
  • 21 February 2008
UK - HgCapital sells Clarion Events to VSS for £120.5m

HgCapital has sold independent exhibition and events business Clarion Events Ltd to US private equity investor Veronis Suhler Stevenson for an enterprise value of £120.5m. The sale has generated an IRR of 34% for investors.

  • Buyouts
  • 21 February 2008
UK - Bridgepoint emerges as likeliest buyer for Prêt in £350m deal

According to reports, Bridgepoint is set to buy 200-strong sandwich chain Prêt A Manger from its consortium of vendors for £350m. Rothschilds was hired last year to run a sale process. A price tag of £400m was originally suggested but it is understood...

  • Buyouts
  • 21 February 2008
UK - Vision Capital-backed Portman acquires Fleet Street Travel

Vision Capital portfolio company Portman Travel, a business travel management company, has acquired Fleet Street Travel in a multi-million pound deal. Portman's turnover in 2008 is projected to exceed £400m compared with £296m in 2007. Fleet Street...

  • Expansion
  • 21 February 2008
BALTIC - BaltCap acquires Interinfo Group for EUR 20-30m

BaltCap has acquired 100% of the Interinfo Group in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, for EUR 20-30m.

  • Buyouts
  • 21 February 2008
FRANCE – Atria backs MBO of Abcd

Atria Capital Partenaires has backed the MBO of Abcd from Affine. Atria will become the majority shareholder in the new holding vehicle Abcdgroup with the management team led, by founders Patrick Canac and Francis Robert, taking a minority stake.

  • Buyouts
  • 21 February 2008
CEE - Arca Capital sells Czech Precision Forge

Slovak Arca Capital has sold its remaining share in Czech Precision Forge, a pilsner engineering company. In April 2003, the fund invested EUR 4.7m in the company.

  • Exits
  • 21 February 2008
GERMANY – NORD Holding acquires Teupen

NORD Holding has acquired a majority stake in Teupen Maschinenbau GmbH, a provider of mobile height access technology. The investment will be used to fund further growth of the company, which is based in Gronau and was founded in 1977. The company expects...

  • Buyouts
  • 20 February 2008
CEE - Series of investments in Czech Republic

Arca Capital has invested in Kasa, a Czech online store. Warburg Pincus is currently in talks to buy Atlas, the third largest Czech search engine after acquiring a majority stake in its rival Centrum, last December.

  • Buyouts
  • 20 February 2008
RUSSIA - ASI injects $200,000 in LogneX

Ambient Sound Investments has invested $200,000 in LogneX, a Russian software development company, bringing its stake to 30%.

  • Expansion
  • 20 February 2008
SWEDEN - Nomura Phase4, TVM and Scottish Widows invest $27m in AstraZeneca spin-out

Nomura Phase4 Ventures has led a $27m round in Albiero, a Swedish biotechnology company spun-out from AstraZeneca. TVM Capital and Scottish Widows have also invested in the business.

  • Expansion
  • 20 February 2008
GERMANY - Waterland sells sds business services for EUR 46m

Waterland Private Equity Investments has sold sds business services GmbH to Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) Inc for EUR 46m, with ACS also assuming liabilities to purchase sds.

  • Exits
  • 20 February 2008
ITALY - Efibanca acquires design company MGM.it

Efibanca-managed Star Bridge Social Responsible Fund has acquired an 80% stake in design company MGM.it.

  • Buyouts
  • 20 February 2008
GERMANY - Ripplewood interested in stricken IKB

According to press reports, US private equity house Ripplewood Holdings is interested in acquiring part or all of IKB bank, which suffered heavily from the subprime crisis. The deadline for nonbinding offers for the bank has been postponed to enable potential...

  • Buyouts
  • 20 February 2008
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