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UK - Charterhouse strengthens team
Charterhouse Capital Partners has announced several personnel changes to its investment team. Geoff Arbuthnott has decided to leave the company. Charterhouse has made two new appointments to the team - Tim James has joined the firm from LGV and Robert...
CEE - Invest Equity buys Roltechnick
Invest Equity has acquired Roltechnick, a Czech sanitary company.
UK - Stirling Square appoints Julien Horreard as associate
Stirling Square Capital Partners has appointed Julien Horreard as an associate.
UK - SEB leads £6m series-C funding for ShoZu
SEB Venture Capital has led a ТЃ6m series-C funding round for mobile application developer ShoZu, alongside existing investors Atlas Ventures, Crescendo Ventures and TTP Ventures.
UK - Advent International appoints new head of portfolio board development
Advent International has announced that Conor Boden has joined the firm to take up the newly-created role of head of portfolio board development. Boden formerly worked at 3i. His main focus will be on extending Adventтs existing operating partner programme....
ITALY - Private Equity Partners acquire foundry Anselmi
Private Equity Partners has acquired foundry Anselmi in a management buyout deal.
ESTONIA - Alta Capital Partners appoints two new partners
Alta Capital Partners has expanded its team with the addition of two new partners – Priit Põldoja, the current managing director of Hansapank Estonia, the Estonian arm of the leading Baltic banking group, and Patrick Querubin, previously the managing...
UK - Zeus completes MBO of XLN Telecom
Zeus Private Equity (ZPE) has completed its fourth deal, backing the management buyout of telecommunications solutions provider, XLN Telecom Ltd. ZPE has invested ТЃ6.63m to acquire a majority stake in the business. Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander has...
UK - HgCapital sells Sanctuary Spa to PZ Cussons for £75m
HgCapital has sold The Sanctuary Spa Group to PZ Cussons, the consumer products group, for ТЃ75m. The Sanctuary Spa is a female body care brand in the UK. The company also operates The Sanctuary Spa in Covent Garden, which serves over 64,000 guests per...
UK - Imperial Innovations backs £11m Circassia funding
Imperial Innovations Group Plc has made a follow-on investment of ТЃ1.75m as part of an oversubscribed ТЃ11m second round of funding for biotechnology company Circassia Holdings Ltd, taking its stake in the business to 13%. New investors Goldman Sachs...
UK - MSIF supports Host Telecom with £100,000
The Merseyside Special Investment Fund's (MSIF) Liverpool Seed Fund has invested ТЃ100,000 to support Host Telecom, developers of a new mobile phone advertising application.
UK - 3i leads £53m investment in oil and gas services company TSMarine
3i and ABN AMRO Merchant Banking are between them investing ТЃ53m in Aberdeen-based TSMarine (Contracting) Ltd. TSMarine operates in the niche subsea rigless intervention and decommissioning market. ABN AMRO formerly provided a ТЃ130m debt facility to...
BALTICS - GILD Bankers plans to launch new EUR 50m fund
GILD Bankers is planning to launch a new private equity fund in Q2 2008 with a target of EUR 50m.
FRANCE – Wendel rumoured to seek Editis exit
Wendel Investissement is reported to be seeking to divest Editis, the second largest publishers in France. The company is valued at between EUR 750 and 950m.