Deals
UK - Aggregator television attracts £9m from 3i, Amadeus and Intel Capital
3i, Amadeus Capital Partners and Intel Capital are co-leading a £9m series-A financing round for London-based digital TV operator Aggregator Limited. The funding will be used to roll out a series of products over the next two years.
UK - Catapult Venture Managers back Exmet
Catapult Venture Managers has led a syndicate of investors to provide a £600,000 funding package for Kingswinford-based Exmet Limited, the supplier of the See20/20 specialist management software system for single and multi-site ophthalmic practices.
UK - ABN AMRO Capital acquires Amtico in £98.25m deal
ABN AMRO Capital has agreed to acquire Amtico International, the high end flooring designer and manufacturer, from Electra Private Equity. The transaction, which is expected to complete in around four weeks subject to customary approvals, values the business...
BELGIUM - KBC Private Equity sells I-PAC Technologies
KBC Private Equity has signed an agreement to sell its 18.90% stake in I-PAC Technologies, a specialist in the development of new technologies for the plastic packaging industry. InnoConcepts NV, the principal stakeholder, will acquire the stake for EUR...
ITALY - Wise acquires majority stake in SpII SpA
The private equity firm Wise SGR, via the funds Wisequity II & Macchine Italia, has acquired a majority stake in SpII SpA, an industrial automation player for the logistic sector, from its founders for an undisclosed sum.
BELGIUM- KBC invests in Tailormade Logistics and Tailormade Transport
KBC Arkiv has invested EUR 1m in Tailormade Logistics and Tailormade Transport, two Flemish companies specialising in integrated logistics services.
UK - Esprit join Atlas and Benchmark in funding round for Newnham
Newnham today announced it has raised $13.25m in a series-B extension round of venture capital to help the company expand the development and worldwide marketing of its interactive networked display software and semiconductor technology. Following this...
SPAIN - SEPIDES to finance expansion of e-Cultura
The private equity fund Banesto ENISA SEPI Desarrollo has agreed to purchase a minority stake in e-Cultura Net S.A for EUR 3m. This is part of an expansion strategy led by the fund’s vehicle SEPI Desarrollo Empresarial S.A (SEPIDES).
FRANCE - Tornier announces investment by Warburg Pincus
Tornier, a global orthopedic company based in Grenoble, France, announced today that it closed a transaction with an investor group led by Warburg Pincus to acquire a majority interest in the company. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. In...
SPAIN - Inova exits La Estrella Digital
According to reports in the Spanish press, the private equity firm Inova has sold its 30% stake in the e-newspaper La Estrella Digital from communications entrepreneur Mariano Álvarez Gutiérrez for an undisclosed sum.
UK - Hotxt closes $6.5m financing round
Hotxt, the text proposition that is revolutionising the text market, today announced the closing of a $6.5m financing round by entities affiliated with the Tudor Group1.
NL-Cinven and Warburg Pincus agree to acquire Casema
Cinven and Warburg Pincus have announced that they have signed an agreement to acquire cable operator Casema from The Carlyle Group, Providence Equity Partners and GMT Communications Partners.
UK - Clearbrook makes first exit
Clearbrook Capital Partners announces that it has agreed to sell Eclipse Scientific Group, the leading independent laboratory company, for £50m to Inspicio Plc, the testing and inspection group. The sale is the first disposal by Clearbrook, the private...
UK - Terra Firma's waste unit set to be acquired by Spain's FCC
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S.A (FCC), a Spanish construction and service group, is set to acquire the waste disposal arm of Waste Recycling Group Holdings (WRG) from Terra Firma. The deal values the waste disposal side of the business at £1.4bn....
SPAIN - Inova exits La Estrella Digital
According to reports in the Spanish press, private equity firm Inova has sold its 30% stake in the e-newspaper La Estrella Digital to communications entrepreneur Mariano Álvarez Gutiérrez for an undisclosed sum.
UK - Misys 'management walk in' to prevent company being sold off too cheaply
Control of software firm Misys is reported by the Times to have been assumed by three former directors who want to prevent the firm being sold off too cheaply to private equity or trade buyers. Under plans by the directors, the £1bn firm will be broken...
UK - Caudwell's mobile phone empire snapped up by private equity
The mobile phone empire of John Caudwell is to be acquired by three private equity groups according to a report in the Sunday Times.
UK - McCarthy & Stone to recommend Permira's offer
The nearly £1bn joint offer from Permira and Barclays Capital for McCarthy & Stone is today expected to be recommended by the board of the company, according to the Times.
UK - Taylor Nelson Sofres receiving private equity interest
The international market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) is said to have attracted private equity interest. The company has encountered the dissatisfaction of its institutional investors after it revealed revenues in the US had fallen and were...
UK - Blackstone and KKR target Argos and Homebase
GUS, the parent company of Argos and Homebase retailers (ARG)and Experian, the business information provider, which is intent on a demerger of the two divisions in October, is reported to have received private equity offers for both arms of the company....
FRANCE - Deadline for PagesJaunes bids
Bidders for France Telecom's 54% stake in directory service PagesJaunes are expected to place binding offers today.
FRANCE - Alven generates a 40% IRR on trade sale of financial software developer
Alven Capital has sold its entire stake in middle and back-office software developer Emos Futures to its main competitor, GL Trade, a deal which generated an IRR of 40%.
GERMANY - Gilde and Capvis sell Soudronic AG
Gilde Buy Out Partners and Capvis have sold their 75% stake in Swiss metal packaging specialist Soudronic AG. The acquirer is Keystone Group Holding AG.
UK - Scott Tod to be taken over by Rutland Partners
Scott Tod, the struggling cash machine specialist is to be delisted by Rutland Partners in a deal which values the loss making company at £7.4m.