Deals
Duke Street sells French hotel chain
Duke Street Capital, the independent private equity manager, has announced the sale of Financière Galaxie SAS to Eurazeo. Galaxie owns B&B Hotels, the third largest budget hotel chain in France, with further hotels in Germany.
Imperial Innovations supports NanoBioDesign
Imperial Innovations, the technology commercialisation company of Imperial College London, has completed its first investment in a biotech company since its private placement in April 2005. The company has invested into Imperial spin-out, NanoBioDesign,...
Wellington profits from net mobile IPO
net mobile AG, which has been a Wellington Partners portfolio company since 2003, has gone public at an issue price of EUR 8.50 per share, and already recorded a double-digit rise in the share price on the first trading day. Prior to the launch, net mobile...
CapMan acquires Swedish Inflight Service
Funds managed/advised by CapMan will acquire the majority of Swedish Inflight Service, aleading travel retail company in the Nordic countries. The minority shareholders will be two ofthe founders, Johan Bjarke and Johan Kullander, and the management....
Mtivity secures £1.5m from VC syndicate
Mtivity Ltd, a leading provider of marketing management software to companies and media agencies, has raised £1.5m and announced the appointment of Patrick Kremer as its new chief executive to lead plans for significant growth in the UK and overseas....
Albany invests in healthcare software specialist
Albany Ventures Fund III has invested in Digital Healthcare Limited, a Cambridge based software supplier of digital imaging, advanced care pathways and clinical information systems for the healthcare market.
Foresight invests in VOIP specialist
Foresight Venture partners has invested over ТЃ1.5 million in the UKтs leading B2B voice over internet protocol (VOIP) company alwaysON. Against a market background of Yahoo offering free global telephone calls via its instant messenger service, and 112...
Quick exit for Gresham makes 200% IRR
Gresham has announced that it has made a successful exit from ANSA, a national claims management business that offers a fully integrated service to deal with insurersт drainage claims. The move comes just 12 months after Gresham provided the equity backing...
High Tech makes medical devices investment
Imedos GmbH, a Jena-based developer of medical devicesfor retinal vessel analysis, has closed a financing round with High Tech Private Equity’s investmentfund HTB. The investment will secure the further international expansion of the company.
PPM German team in second acquisition
PPM Capital has signed ashare purchase agreement to acquire BST Safety Textiles, a leadingglobal manufacturer of fabrics for the automotive airbag segment as well asthe seatbelt and commercial webbing in North America, from Johann Berger.Combined equity...
Advent firm in property deal
ILVA Furniture Ltd, the UK trading arm of the Danish furniture group, backed by private equity group Advent International, has completed a transaction with Marks and Spencer, Bride Hall Estates and Land Securities for the acquisition of leases on the...
Clearwater provides advice for engineering BIMBO
North East-based Responsive Group, has undergone a buy-in management buyout (BIMBO) for an undisclosed sum, from Chris Thompson and his family. Thompson is a well known local entrepreneur.
ABN AMRO buys Priory Group from Doughty Hanson
ABN AMRO has today entered into an agreement to acquire Priory Group from private equity firmDoughty Hanson & Co for a total equity and debt consideration of EUR 1.29bn.
CapMan buys Infocare from Fujitsu and 3i
The funds managed/advised by CapMan and Helge Briseid Risnes, CEO and founder of theInfoCare Group, will acquire the Norwegian specialist in ICT services InfoCare ASA fromFujitsu Services and 3i. Following the transaction, CapMan funds have a 67% stake...
3i exits Zenith with 60% IRR
3i has sold its minority stake in Zenith, one of the UK’s largest independent vehicle leasing companies to Dunedin Capital Partners, in a total deal worth £27m.
Segulah acquires Skanska Prefab Mark from Skanska
Skanska Prefab Mark AB is the market leader in Sweden in manufacturing and selling prefabricatedproducts in concrete for sewage, drainage and paving. The company wasfounded in the late 19th century and has since been part of the now global constructiongroup...
Advent and PM buy Gruppo Argenta
Advent International, the global private equity firm, today announced the acquisition of Gruppo Argenta, a leading Italian vending machine operator. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed. Advent will hold a 65% stake in the company. PM &...
IK to acquire 75% of Kid Interiør
The Industri Kapital 2004 fund will acquire 75% of the leading Norwegian home textile retailer Kid Interiør from its family owners who will retain a 25% holding.
Impetus Trust makes fourth investment
Impetus Trust, the UK’s first general venture philanthropy fund founded by industry veterans Stephen Dawson and Nat Sloane, is backing the charity Leap Confronting Conflict. Leap which will be Impetus’s fourth investment is the leader in conflict resolution...
Albany leads investment in High Integrity Solutions
Albany has led a ТЃ2.5m funding for High Integrity Solutions, alongside Foresight and Enterprise VCT Plc, to market its software development framework into major engineering projects across the world. This second round funding follows an original investment...
German Equity Partners BV sells Spectro to Ametek
ECM has advised a consortium of institutional investors led by German Equity Partners BV in thesale of Spectro to the American publicly quoted Ametek Inc.
Santaris Pharma raises EUR 4.4m in interim funding and launches second round financing
Santaris Pharma, the Danish biopharmaceutical company developing gene-targeting drugs for the treatment of cancer, today announced that it has received additional financing of EUR 4.4m from its lead investors: BankInvest, Novo, LD Pension, InnovationsKapital,...
Macquarie wins BBC deal
Macquarie Capital Alliance Group (MCAG) today announced that Creative BroadcastServices Limited, a consortium led by MCAG and including Macquarie Bank Limited, hasentered into an agreement with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to acquire100%...
ReVolt Technology AS receives EUR 7m from VC syndicate
ReVolt Technology AS, a technology start-up based in Trondheim, Norway, which offers a new solution for rechargeable batteries, has received EUR 7m in a first round of financing by Northzone Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, Techno Venture Management (TVM),...