Deals
CBPE's Xafinity floats with £190.3m market-cap
Divestment of the pension consultancy generated a 4.3x return for the GP after a four-year tenure
Cairngorm's Polyframe acquires Customade
New enlarged group has revenues in excess of ТЃ100m, following an MBO in August 2016
BNP Paribas, UI Gestion invest in La Boucherie
Existing backer Naxicap first entered the group in 2008 via an €8m expansion round
LDC invests £6.5m in Blue Bay Travel
Deal comes shortly after the GP supported a bolt-on acquisition by another travel business, Away Resorts
Creandum leads €5.5m round for Pleo
Round adds to DKK 20m raised in September 2016 from early-stage investors, Danish family offices and a foundation
Beringea in £2m round for Perfect Channel
Online auction and trading platform will invest in product development and marketing activity
EQT sells SEK 696m AcadeMedia share block
GP retains a 41.6% stake in the Swedish private education company, which it listed in June 2016
Initiative & Finance backs Extruflex SBO
French vinyl extrusion was notably backed by Chequers Capital between 2003-2013
Vision Capital makes 5.2x on Nordax exit
Final sale of Stockholm-listed shares in the consumer finance business comes a-year-and-a-half after Nordax's IPO
MMC in £3.75m round for Bloom & Wild
Deal for flower delivery platform comes 19 months after the VC led a ТЃ2.5m investment in the company
Quadrivio exits Pantex in trade sale
Exit is the seventh completed by Quadrivio from its Quadrivio Q2 vehicle
Connection backs £10.2m ACT Clean MBO
GP invests ТЃ5m to support the buyout of the cleaning and kitchen portering business
Karolinska exits Inhalation Sciences
Family-owned investment company RУЅsunda FУЖrvaltning enters the company's capital structure as part of the deal
HTGF backs Wetransform
German early-stage VC investor expands in the spatial data system market
Macquarie sells 40% Pisto stake to Crédit Agricole entity Predica
Macquarie Group became sole shareholder in the group last year after acquiring Antin Infrastructure's shares
Siparex buys stake in HNH Hotels
French GP will support growth with an aim to double turnover and the number of rooms in the next five years
KKR to acquire Travelopia from TUI in €381m deal
GP has invested from its fourth European fund in a deal that values the specialist travel group at 7.7x underlying EBITDA
HQ Equita acquires Well Plus Trade
Buyout house secures a majority stake in the German producer of protein-based sports nutrition
Patron, Heineken acquire Punch Taverns in £1.8bn EV deal
Transaction will see the GP acquire 1,300 pubs with the trade investor acquiring the remaining 1,900
Eurazeo spins out Fonroche solar division
InfraVia recently closed its third European infrastructure fund, InfraVia European Fund III, on €1bn
Palatine's Verdant bolts on Crosslaw Caravan Park
Deal marks the third acquisition made by the leisure park operator since the GP's initial investment
Nordic Capital completes take-private bid for Nordnet
Joint holding with investment company Уhman Group holds 98.65% of the company's shares and will delist the company
CVC acquires stake in Pension Insurance Corporation
Deal reportedly values the pensions insurance group at around ТЃ2bn and will see the GP take a 10-20% stake
KKR successful in GFK share purchase
Private equity giant will now have a say in trying to turn the German market research business around