Deals
Altor and Bain sell Ewos for €1.35bn
Exit comes two years after тЌ823m buyout
MyRoomIn raises €800,000 in seed round
Business aims to expand to London and Rome by year-end
Questback raises £12m
Company recently opened office in Houston
Calculus injects £2.1m into Synpromics
Calculus draws capital from Calculus Capital EIS Fund 15
EmergeVest acquires Palletforce in £30m MBO
Deal values business at 12.3x profits after tax
Procuritas acquires Daldata from Via Venture Partners
GP will invest alongside management
PE-backed Expro withdraws IPO
Cancelled IPO follows recent refinancing
FSN takes majority stake in Roplan
Founder will retain minority stake
VC-backed Shopa looks to wind down
Octopus currently looking for ways to exit the business
Penta Investments acquires Vltava-Labe-Press
German media group exits Czech publisher
Lion Capital secures £500m Findus partial exit
GP rides into final furlong of Findus ownership with spin-off
Equistone buys Palatine's Wealth at Work in £50m SBO
Palatine to reinvest to stay as minority shareholder
Personal contributions: keeping skin in the game
GP contributions are dwindling, to the industry's detriment
TA Ventures leads €2.3m Style Lounge series-A
Metasearch engine launched in January 2015
Corsair and Palamon in MBO for Currencies Direct
Transaction valued above ТЃ200m
Just Retirement buys Partnership Assurance for £669m
Both companies are private-equity-backed
LDC secures £18.5m refinancing for SPS
Yorkshire Bank replaces SPS's existing ТЃ10m debt facility
Solix in SEK 200m Geveko take-private
Former Altor partners lead acquistion of struggling company
Windeln bolts on Bebitus
Acquisition is part of Windeln's European expansion
CD&R's Mauser to raise $100m in IPO
Mauser Group, a packaging manufacturer owned by Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) since 2014, is looking to raise $100m in its upcoming listing on the Nasdaq.
Prodigy Finance raises $100m from Balderton et al.
Round also saw participation from Credit Suisse
Mountain Cleantech exits Grünspar to EWE
Exit comes two-and-a-half years after GP firsted backed company
Atlantic Bridge et al. exit Acision to Comverse
Sell-off comes more than eight years after consortium picked up business
BT Pension awards Hermes £1bn refresher mandate
Hermes was previously mandated by BT in 2011 as its sole PE manager