Deals
Pine Brook writes off The Car Finance Company investment
Filings reveal the GP believes its investment in the car loans business is non-recoverable
PE-backed Global Bionenergies in €10m private placement
CM-CIC and Seventure Partners are among the company's shareholders, and are reducing their respective stakes
Deal in Focus: Ufenau reaps 6x on NRW sale
Divestment of building refurbishment company follows a tenure of less than three years
Eurazeo buys Magnum's Iberchem for €405m
French GP backs the third secondary buyout for the Spanish fragrance and flavour producer
LDC sells TCEG to Huntworth in £25m EV deal
Under LDC's tenure, the marketing agency made three bolt-ons and merged with The Moment
Enterprise Investors sells Novaturas to trade buyer
Enterprise's sixth fund is selling the travel firm after a 10-year holding period
Bowmark backs merger of Aston Scott and Lark Group
Bowmark aims to continue its buy-and-build strategy with the new company
HTGF, Media Ventures et al. in $8.5m round for Make.tv
Corporate venture players Voyager Capital, Microsoft Ventures and Vulcan Capital also back the round
Target Partners leads €4.2m round for ArangoDB
Deal is the final tranche of the series-A funding round, which first closed on €2.2m in November 2016
Mid Europa lists Waberer's in Budapest
Largest Hungarian IPO since 1998, despite pricing at the lower end of the initial range
BC partially divests Mergermarket Group to GIC
Deal will see the GP return more than 2x its original investment to LPs and retain a 60% stake
VCs back digital insurance merger
Previous Knip investors Route 66 Ventures, Red Alpine and QED are also providing funding to support the merger
Truffle Capital exits Credit.fr
Credit.fr was incubated by Truffle Capital in 2015 with an initial investment of €3m
Aleph and BPI back Ekinops' acquisition of OneAccess
OneAccess has been backed by a consortium of VCs since 2003, including Idinvest and CM-CIC
FSN Capital sells Danish bakery Lagkagehuset to Nordic Capital
Under FSN's ownership, Lagkagehuset increased the number of its outlets from three to 69
Vaaka Partners in Jungle Juice Bar investment
Deals kicks off investment for the firm's third buyout fund, which is expected to make 10-15 in total
Alpina invests in VR business Virtalis
UK-based software and hardware developer will look to undertake an international expansion strategy
Neuberger Berman in exclusive negotiations for FII's portfolio
Exclusivity ends the bidding process for the portfolio, which also attracted Tikehau and Italmobiliare
iSeed exits MySugr in trade sale to Roche
Mysugr was backed by US VC iSeed Ventures as well as Roche Ventures, Allianz Ventures and XLHealth
Findos sells Gabo to Bregal Unternehmerkapital
Bregal plans to work together with management to focus on internationalisation, sales and new products
XAnge exits KissKissBankBank
XAnge Private Equity first invested in the Parisian startup with a €750,000 seed roundin 2009
Primomiglio leads €1.5m round for Codemotion
Backers include Italian venture capital firms Invitalia Ventures and LVenture Group
ECI reaps 3.3x on sale of Kelvin Hughes to Hensoldt
Sale price has not been disclosed but ECI is reporting a return of 3.3x on its original investment
Maj Invest purchases 50% stake in Victor Gruppen
Deal for the Danish restaurant group is the third undertaken by Maj Invest's тЌ300m fifth fund