PIPEs
Calculus invests £3m in AIM-listed C4X Discovery
Funding round will enable the pharmaceuticals business to fund further drug development
Calculus invests £2.5m in listed portfolio company Epistem
Diagnostics company will invest in new low-cost medical tests
VC-backed GenSight Biologics raises €40m in IPO
Flotation on Euronext Paris gives the biotech a market cap of €149m
NB, Apax buy further 8.3% stake in Engineering Ingegneria Informatica
Purchase will trigger launch of a mandatory offer for the remaining 55.7% shares
Kerogen injects £44m into listed Hurricane
Investment into UK oil exploration company will fund the drilling of two wells
Silver Lake in €580m take-private bid for Cegid
GP and UK-based investment firm AltaOne have agreed to buy a 38% stake in the SaaS company
Altor takes 25% stake in Skandiabanken for NOK 1.2bn
The deal is a continuation of Altor’s ongoing strategy of public minority investments
BGF invests £2m in Castleton
Fresh funding supports AIM-listed company's acquisition of Kypera
EQT acquires 68% of IFS for SEK 8.7bn take-private
Deal values entire IFS share capital at SEK 8.67bn
BPI France buys 5% Parrot stake for €33m
Move by state investor comes amid €299m capital increase
HitecVision's NSSI acquires 10% stake in Kværner
Share purchase takes total stake to 11.1%
Black Toro invests €30m in Carbures
Funding to be structured as convertible loan or expansion capital
Finaccess buys 32% AmRest stake from Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus first acquired stake for €80m in 2010
Apollo et al. to invest €278m in listed Latécoère
Company's current market cap sits at €105m
Carlyle picks up NARS for £43.2m
Offer represents a 45% premium on NARS's three-month average share price
Altor acquires SEK 421m Transcom stake
GP becomes largest shareholder in publicly traded company
CVC increases Deoleo stake to 48%
News comes shortly after GP ups its offer to regulator's fair price recommendation
Altor takes 23.3% stake in Spectrum
GP paid NOK 29 per share for 10 million share block
Calculus participates in £6m Collagen injection
Business has used the funding to buy New Zealand-based Southern Light
Bain picks up CRH divisions for £414m
Two divisions sold to Bain comprise CRH's clay companies Ibstock in the UK and Glen Gery in the US
Marwyn backs Haversham IPO
Haversham hopes to raise £30m ahead of acquisitions
HitecVision invests NOK 180m in Rocksource
GP secures 31.24% stake in listed Norwegian company
Endless in £19m office2office take-private
If accepted, Endless will combine the company with portfolio company Vasanta
Fondo Strategico backs Trevifin
Company is part-owned by Kuwait Investment Authority