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Warburg Pincus buys additional 10% Avaloq stake from Raffeisen
Avaloq simultaneously acquires a 51% stake in its joint venture with Raffeisen, Arizon
PE-backed Tipico buys Via Consulting
CVC Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in Tipico for a reported €1.1bn EV in 2016
Paragon, Gimv team up on Wemas buyout
Paragon's involvement is announced eight weeks after Gimv's initial buyout
Creathor backs €3m funding round for Wunderflats
Comparable company Homelike secured a €4m funding round from Cherry Ventures and Coparion in August
Sunstone, Statkraft lead €4m series-A for Zolar
Partech Ventures and entrepreneur Tim Schumacher also take part in the round
DN Capital leads €8m round for Book a Tiger
Backers include Target Global alongside new investors Atami Capital and Davidson TG
Idinvest hires Daulon du Laurens as new IR head
Daulon du Laurens will be responsible for the firm's fundraising in his new role
Trilantic buys Oberberg Group from Odewald
Trilantic draws equity from its €900m, 2015-vintage buyout vehicle Trilantic Europe Fund V
Mid-market valuations at highest level ever in latest Argos index
Sharp increase in prices paid by strategic buyers push the median entry multiple to 9.5x
Cipio sells Wywy to PE-backed TVSquared
TVSquared simultaneously opens a Munich office to provide ground support for European clients
BayBG backs €5m series-B for Dynamic Biosensors
Previous investors Bayern Kapital and UnternehmerTUM have also taken part in the round
Coparion in $5.4m series-A for Lofelt
Wolfman.One leads the round with Q Venture Partners and Horizons Ventures also taking part
RiverRock sells ES-Plastic to CM-CIC-backed Proplast
GP made the divestment from its €169m credit vehicle, RiverRock European Opportunities Fund
Paragon carves out Condecta from Arbonia
Arbonia announced it would sell Condecta in July 2017 after a strategic review
Technology: Europe's magnetic north
Mid-market deals in northern Europe are at the forefront of tech deal activity, with enterprise software and payment tech notable areas of attraction
Point Nine hires Playfair's Benaich
Benaich's tenure is likely to be temporary as he is in the process of building a new VC firm
European SBOs reach record levels in first three quarters
Europe sees 202 secondary buyout deals between January and September, surpassing the peak of 200 seen in Q1-Q3 2007
Alpina partially exits Dolan
Transaction is also a partial exit for chemical industry veteran Jan Verdenhalven
Atlantic Labs in $11.6m round for Neufund
Philipp Freise of KKR and Michael Jackson of Mangrove Capital also take part
Gain Capital re-hires Martin Prohazka
Prohazka will be responsible for investment allocation, manager selection and raising a new fund
83North invests $12m in TIS
Fresh capital will be used to accelerate product development and scale operations
Bayern Kapital in €7m funding round for Fineway
Corporate venture capital firms Mairdumont Ventures and Axel Springer also take part
Endurance Capital sells Elsold to Tamura Corporation
Japanese strategic investor will use Elsold as a platform for European expansion
Aheim sells WAG to Kieger, CIC Capital
End of a three-and-a-half-year holding for Aheim, which wholly acquired the company in 2014