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Deals

FRANCE - Seventure returns for EUR 11.5 financing of assurOne

Returning investor Seventure Partners has alongside new investors CDC Entreprises and Philippe Louis-Dreyfus invested EUR 11.5m into assurOne, an internet insurance provider.

  • Expansion
  • 23 January 2009
FRANCE - Platina purchases Compobaie assets

Platina Partners has acquired the assets of Compobaie, a producer of pre-fabricated window units for residential housing, from the French courts, forming Compobaie Solutions SAS.

  • Portfolio management
  • 22 January 2009
FRANCE - Sofinnova leads EUR 6m DBV funding

Sofinnova Partners has provided EUR 4m as part of a EUR 6m financing round for biopharmaceutical company DBV Technologies, with the balance being supplied by new investor ALK-Abello, a leading worldwide immunotherapy company.

  • Early-stage
  • 22 January 2009
EUROPE - Final quarter records lowest deal value for a decade

Though it will come as no surprise that private equity investment in Europe dropped considerably in the final quarter of 2008, the scale of the decline just might; with deal value sliding 59% against the preceding three months from around EUR 20bn to...

  • Deals
  • 22 January 2009
FRANCE - Naxicap and ICSO invest EUR 3.4m into Exakis

Naxicap Partners and IRDI-ICSO have returned for a EUR 3.4m third round of financing for IT advisory services company Exakis, with each providing half of the total.

  • Expansion
  • 22 January 2009
FINLAND - Nexit Ventures and FII support Axel with EUR 2.4m

Existing investors Nexit Ventures and Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) has invested EUR 2.4m in multistandard mobile TV developer Axel Technologies.

  • Expansion
  • 22 January 2009
FINLAND - FII, InnKap and Tempo Capital back Silecs with EUR 6m

Government-backed Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) has alongside InnovationsKapital and Tempo Capital Partners invested EUR 6m in Silecs Oy, a developer of materials for the microelectronics industry.

  • Expansion
  • 22 January 2009
FINLAND - FII, InnKap and Tempo Capital back Silecs with EUR 6m

Government-backed Finnish Industry Investment Ltd (FII) has alongside InnovationsKapital and Tempo Capital Partners invested EUR 6m in Silecs Oy, a developer of materials for the microelectronics industry.

  • Expansion
  • 22 January 2009
CZECH – Royalton acquires ACTIV

Royalton Partners has acquired a 67.5% stake in Czech parking operator ACTIV AS.

  • Buyouts
  • 21 January 2009
UK - LCA-backed Living Villages enters administration

Living Villages Holdings Limited, a construction company specialising in low carbon properties backed by Low Carbon Accelerator (LCA), is being put into adminsitration.

  • Exits
  • 21 January 2009
CZECH - Benson acquires BTV

Benson Oak Capital has acquired automotive plastics parts producer BTV Plast.

  • Buyouts
  • 21 January 2009
GERMANY - S-Refit sells DRONCO stake

S-Refit AG has sold its stake in abrasives company DRONCO AG to the wife of the firm's majority shareholder and CEO for an undisclosed sum.

  • Exits
  • 21 January 2009
SPAIN - Thesan to acquire Aurgi

According to reports, Thesan Capital is poised to acquire auto repair shop Aurgi from AC Desarrollo for a cash consideration of EUR 4.7m plus the stocks held in the 26 of the 29 stores they intend on purchasing, which could amount to an additional EUR...

  • Buyouts
  • 21 January 2009
UK - EV reaps 142% IRR from H2O exit

North of England-focused investor group Enterprise Ventures (EV) has wholly exited its stake in fibre optics business H2O Networks in a management buy-back, achieving returns of 3.6x cost and an IRR of 142% over the course of the investment.

  • Exits
  • 21 January 2009
SWITZERLAND - Cross acquires Schwab Verkehrstechnik AG

Cross has acquired rolling stock technology company Schwab Verkehrstechnik AG from Schwab Holding AG for an undisclosed sum.

  • Buyouts
  • 21 January 2009
UK - Delphic acquires iQur

Delphic Ltd, a provider of specialist diagnostics for HIV backed by MMC Ventures, The Capital Fund and Ulive Enterprise, has acquired the diagnostics business of biotechnology company iQur.

  • Early-stage
  • 20 January 2009
GERMANY - Alster Equity Partners and WMS back GEMAC MBO

Alster Equity Partners GmbH (AEP), alongside Wachstumsfonds Mittelstand Sachsen (WMS) and company management, acquired micro electronics company GEMAC Gesellschaft für Mikroelektronikanwendung Chemnitz mbH (GEMAC).

  • Buyouts
  • 20 January 2009
FRANCE - Argos invests EUR 1m into Buffet Crampon

Argos Soditic has invested EUR 1m into portfolio company Buffet Crampon to finance the development of a new line of 20,000 clarinets per year.

  • Expansion
  • 20 January 2009
GERMANY - HTGF supports HiperScan GmbH with EUR 500,000

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) has acquired a minority stake in near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) analytic company HiperScan GmbH for EUR 500,000.

  • Early-stage
  • 19 January 2009
FRANCE - Argos Soditic sells Jaybeam Wireless

Argos Soditic has sold Jaybeam Wireless, a manufacturer of cellular antennas for wireless telecommunications, to US-based connectors specialist Amphenol.

  • Exits
  • 19 January 2009
UK - Foresight injects £5m into 2K Manufacturing

Foresight Group has invested £5m into 2K Manufacturing, a waste recycling company.

  • Early-stage
  • 19 January 2009
GERMANY - Private equity said to be interested in HeidelbergCement

According to reports, Goldman Sachs, TPG, Bain Capital and PAI partners are among several large buyout firms considering an investment in building materials company HeidelbergCement, which is said to be struggling with its debt after the takeover of British...

  • Buyouts
  • 19 January 2009
BELGIUM - LSRP and Hunza Ventures in B-round for Cardio3 BioSciences

Belgian investment group Life Science Research Partners has particapted in a EUR 7.2m in a series-B round for biotech company Cardio3 BioSciences alongside new and existing investors.

  • Early-stage
  • 19 January 2009
UK - Octopus supports Zoopla.co.uk with £2m

Octopus Ventures has invested £2m in online property information website Zoopla.co.uk in a £3.75m series B-round.

  • Early-stage
  • 19 January 2009
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