Deals
FRANCE - Colony Capital becomes majority shareholder in football club
US-Colony Capital has become the majority shareholder in football club Paris-Saint Germain (PSG) with a 61.6% stake.
SWITZERLAND – Consortium of investors raise CHF 17m for Vivendy
BioMedInvest AG I, LSP Life Sciences Partners and TVM Capital closed a CHF 17m series-A round for Vivendy Therapeutics Ltd., a bio-pharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland. Vivendy is a pharmaceutical start-up company that is developing an...
UK - ISIS recoups 2.5x from sale of Hawksmere
ISIS Equity Partners has sold Hawksmere Ltd to Kaplan Financial for an undisclosed sum. The exit will yield a money multiple of 2.5x to ISIS clients. London-based Hawksmere is a provider of legal, professional, senior management and compliance training...
SPAIN - 3i to invest EUR 30m in Spanish television company
3i is set to complete a deal with Spanish television company Boomerang TV which will see it investing approximately EUR 30m in the business.
FRANCE – CDC Innovation leads EUR 5m financing round in Aldebaran Robotics
CDC Innovation has led a EUR 5m series–A round of financing for Aldebaran Robotics’ NAO robot. I-Source Gestion also participated in the deal. The Parisiam start-up company develops 60cm tall humanoid home robot companions.
UK - Wellcome Trust invests £3.5m in Novacta Biosystems
The Wellcome Trust has provided Novacta Biosystems, an anti-infective therapeutics company, with a ТЃ3.5m award and investment. The deal sees medical research charity Wellcome take a minority stake in the business which previously received ТЃ900,000 of...
SPAIN - Nazca Capital backs logistics players
Nazca Capital has invested in logistics company Transportes García Villalobos (GyV) and Plataforma Frigorífica.
GERMANY - L-EA and SEED fund Trivid with EUR 2-5m
L-EigenkapitalAgentur and SEED have invested a total of EUR 2-5m in Trivid GmbH, a provider of online video and content solutions in a Series A round. L-EigenkapitalAgentur has acquired the bigger stake in the company, with the total of equity held by...
UK/SPAIN - LCA invests £2.5m into Classical Renaissance
Low Carbon Accelerator Ltd (LCA) has completed an investment of ТЃ2.5m, provided in the form of a profit participating loan, into Classical Renaissance EspaУБa SL. As part of the deal, LCA will recieve an equity stake in Classical Renaissance Ltd, the...
ITALY - Palamon sells media player Today Spa
Palamon Capital Partners has exited printed media company Today Spa.
FINLAND - Nordic Venture Partners invests in SANAKO
Nordic Venture Partners has invested EUR 5m in SANAKO, a provider of technology for live language learning.
DENMARK - ISS exit on the cards
EQT and GS Capital Partners–backed ISS, the Danish hygiene services company, could soon be ready for a trade sale or listing.
SPAIN - Berquet Desarrollo Empresarial backs internet player
Berquet Desarrollo Empresarial has provided internet music portal Nvivo.es with a first round of funding.
UK - Catapult backs Kyoob with £500,000
Catapult Venture Managers has invested ТЃ500,000 into Kyoob Space Ltd, a company that designs, manufactures, hires and sells premium end relocatable buildings for the temporary accomodation market.
UK - Foresight and SPARK exit software business
Foresight Group and SPARK Venture Management, through its Quester VCTs, has sold software business Nomad Payments Ltd to Metavante Technologies, Inc for $58m. Nomad is a provider of prepaid and debt card processing and licensed software. The exit generated...
UK - Octopus backs £9.75m MBO of Tristar
Octopus Investments has invested ТЃ4.8m to support the ТЃ9.75m management buyout of Tristar Worldwide Chaffeur Services, with Barclays providing senior debt and invoicing discount facilities.
ROMANIA - Royalton acquires a 95% stake in CertAsig
Royalton Capital Investors II has acquired, directly and through a capital increase, a 95% stake in CertAsig, a Romanian insurance company, from a consortium of Spanish investors.
GERMANY – EquiVest acquires REGE Motorenteile
EquiVest, managed by CBR Management GmbH, has acquired REGE Motorenteile GmbH & Co KG from parent company Schaeffler AG. REGE manufactures parts for the automotive industry and is based in Herzogenaurach. The company has two manufacturing plants in Eisenach...
GERMANY - Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in family networking site
Hasso Plattner Ventures has provided OSN GmbH, the company behind family networking site verwandt.de, with a second round of funding. This marks the investor’s largest investment to date. Existing investor, Neuhaus Partners, also participated in this...
UK - Advantage puts mortgage brokers on the block for £50m
Advantage Capital is to divest mortgage brokers portfolio company John Charcol for an estimated price of ТЃ50m. Gleacher Shacklock is to run a sale process to facilitate the disposal after Advantage received a number of approaches for the business.
UK - Electra Quoted Management acquires Peter Werth
Electra Quoted Management has led the ТЃ10m+ management buy-in of men's clothes brand Peter Werth. Clydesdale Bank provided a debt package to support the deal which represents an exit for founder Peter Werth.
UK - Blackstone edges closer to Close Brothers deal with £1.6bn offer
According to sources, Blackstone is prepared to pay up to 1,100p per share for Close Brothers. The offer represents a market capitalisation of ТЃ1.6bn for the London-listed investment bank.
SPAIN - Nauta Capital backs tech player
Nauta Capital via its fund Nauta Tech Invest II has committed EUR 3m to technology company Scytl.