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UK - TA Associates promotes Christopher Parkin to Principal
TA Associates has announced the promotion of Christopher Parkin from vice president to principal.
UK - Foresight and SPARK exit software business
Foresight Group and SPARK Venture Management, through its Quester VCTs, has sold software business Nomad Payments Ltd to Metavante Technologies, Inc for $58m. Nomad is a provider of prepaid and debt card processing and licensed software. The exit generated...
UK - Octopus backs £9.75m MBO of Tristar
Octopus Investments has invested ТЃ4.8m to support the ТЃ9.75m management buyout of Tristar Worldwide Chaffeur Services, with Barclays providing senior debt and invoicing discount facilities.
ROMANIA - Royalton acquires a 95% stake in CertAsig
Royalton Capital Investors II has acquired, directly and through a capital increase, a 95% stake in CertAsig, a Romanian insurance company, from a consortium of Spanish investors.
GERMANY – EquiVest acquires REGE Motorenteile
EquiVest, managed by CBR Management GmbH, has acquired REGE Motorenteile GmbH & Co KG from parent company Schaeffler AG. REGE manufactures parts for the automotive industry and is based in Herzogenaurach. The company has two manufacturing plants in Eisenach...
GERMANY - Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in family networking site
Hasso Plattner Ventures has provided OSN GmbH, the company behind family networking site verwandt.de, with a second round of funding. This marks the investor’s largest investment to date. Existing investor, Neuhaus Partners, also participated in this...
UK - Parallel Private Equity commits £70m to Greenhill fund
Parallel Private Equity has committed ТЃ70m to Greenhill & Co's first European fundraising effort. The money is structured as a ТЃ70m draw-down facility over five years. Greenhill announced the final close of the fund on ТЃ191m in December 2007.
UK - Advantage puts mortgage brokers on the block for £50m
Advantage Capital is to divest mortgage brokers portfolio company John Charcol for an estimated price of ТЃ50m. Gleacher Shacklock is to run a sale process to facilitate the disposal after Advantage received a number of approaches for the business.
UK - Electra Quoted Management acquires Peter Werth
Electra Quoted Management has led the ТЃ10m+ management buy-in of men's clothes brand Peter Werth. Clydesdale Bank provided a debt package to support the deal which represents an exit for founder Peter Werth.
UK - Blackstone edges closer to Close Brothers deal with £1.6bn offer
According to sources, Blackstone is prepared to pay up to 1,100p per share for Close Brothers. The offer represents a market capitalisation of ТЃ1.6bn for the London-listed investment bank.
UK/FRANCE - Platina announces EUR 75m close of fourth fund
Platina Finance Ltd has announced an intermediary close of its fourth fund, the European Renewable Energy Fund 1 LP (EREF), on EUR 75m. The fund was launched in October 2007 and is targeting a final close of EUR 250m by the end of 2008.
SPAIN - Nauta Capital backs tech player
Nauta Capital via its fund Nauta Tech Invest II has committed EUR 3m to technology company Scytl.
UK - Solon leads £1m Peakdale funding
Solon Ventures Ltd has led a ТЃ1m financing round for Peakdale Molecular Ltd, a specialist provider of chemistry services to the pharmaceutical industry.
BELGIUM - KBC Arkiv invests EUR 1m in Tailormade
KBC Arkiv has invested EUR 1m in Tailormade Logistics and Tailormade Transport, two Flemish companies specialising in integrated logistics services. This is a follow-on investment to the EUR 1m KBC Arkiv already invested in both companies in July 2006....