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UK - Altium makes three promotions

Altium has made three key promotions in its Manchester office. Mike Fletcher and Simon Lord have each been promoted to the position of managing director, while Steven Whitehead has become an assistant director.

FRANCE - Seventure leads EUR 6m expansion funding for Tekka

Seventure has led a EUR 6m expansion round in Tekka. The deal saw Seventure invest EUR 3.5m while CM-CIC Capital Privé invested the remaining EUR 2.5m. The two firms hold more than 33% of Tekka while CEO Thierry Rotta, family and affiliates retain a majority...

UK - NorthStar invests £850,000 in Quick TV

North East venture capital firm, NorthStar Equity Investors (NSEI), has completed a ТЃ850,000 investment in Newcastle-based TV technology company, Quick TV Ltd. Leading a consortium of investors, NorthStar Equity Investors has backed the innovative business...

GERMANY - Klaus Weber to head 3i's growth capital team

Klaus Weber has joined 3i to head its growth capital team in Frankfurt. He succeeds Andreas Kochhäuser, who will leave the company. Prior to this role, Klaus Weber was head of acquisition finance for French bank Calyon in Frankfurt, following various...

FRANCE – Decomeubles Partners acquires BUT for EUR 550m

Decomeubles Partners, which is backed by a consortium composed of Colony Capital, Goldman Sachs and Merchant Equity Partners, has acquired BUT for EUR 550m from Kesa Electricals. The EUR 550m purchase price is subject to adjustment for debt and other...

GERMANY - DZ Equity acquires melvo GmbH in a management buyout

DZ Equity Partner GmbH has acquired, together with the management, a 49% stake in footwear care products company melvo GmbH from HANNOVER Finanz for an undisclosed sum. Melvo GmbH was founded in 1998 as a subsidiary of shoe manufacturer Salamander Group...

SWITZERLAND - LPX launches new private equity index

LPX, the Swiss-based publisher of research and indices on global listed private equity, has launched a new index, LPX Direct, created in partnership with Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. LPX Direct is LPX’s twelfth private equity index and covers only those...

GERMANY - Mid-market buyouts unscathed by finance crisis

According to a statement issued by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, activity in the mid-market buyout space in Germany is unbroken and is evidently unimpeded by the liquidity crisis. Market data issued today supports this: 35 transactions were recorded in 2007,...

FRANCE – Argos Soditic leads MBI of Groupe Mertz

Argos Soditic associated themselves with an external manager and current director Jérôme Begey to acquire Mertz SA and Mertz Conteneurs, collectively know as Groupe Mertz, in an MBI deal of undisclosed value.

UK - BOSIF invests £12m+ in Quartix

Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance has invested a combined debt and equity package in excess of ТЃ12m in Quartix Ltd, a supplier of vehicle tracking systems. As a result of the deal, BOSIF has taken a 20% stake in the business, the balance is held by...