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UK - Barclays Ventures completes £15m training services MBO
Barclays Ventures has completed the ТЃ15m management buyout of Develop Training (Develop), a leading provider of training services to the utility sector. HSBC Leveraged Finance provided acquisition debt facilities. The deal represents Barclays Ventures'...
SWEDEN - Industri Kapital makes internal promotions
Industri Kapital has made a number of internal promotions. Dan Soudry and Helena Stjernholm have been appointed as partners in France and Sweden. Soundry join the firm in 2003 from ABN AMRO Capital in Paris where he was part of the LBO team. Stjernholm...
GERMANY - bmp and VC-Fonds Berlin finance mobile DailyME.TV
bmp Media Investors AG & Co. KGaA and the VC-Fonds Berlin are taking a stake in mando.TV GmbH with its mobile phone TV-platform DailyME.TV. bmp Media Investors and VC-Fonds Berlin each assume just under 24%, yoc AG 2%, with the majority of the company...
AUSTRIA - SensorDynamics closes EUR 25m series-B round
SensorDynamics has closed a EUR 25m series-B funding round. The new capital was provided by a consortium of investors that included existing investors Global Equity Partners with HTA III Venture Beteiligungs-Invest AG, Siemens Venture Capital and DEWB....
UK - Close Brothers Corporate Finance strengthens team
Close Brothers, the independent European corporate finance house, has appointed Jonathan Broome and Nuala Higgins. Broome joins the European Debt Advisory Group as a Director to advise companies on all aspects of raising debt. He is rejoining Close Brothers...
UK - ECI appoints new investor relations manager
ECI Partners has appointed Jeremy Lytle as investor relations manager. Lytle will be responsible for investor relations, acting as a main point of contact for investors, as well as leading future fundraising with ECIтs investment committee.
UK - Exponent acquires Radley handbags from Phoenix in £130m deal
Exponent Private Equity has acquired Radley + Co, the ladies handbag and accessories brand, from Phoenix Private Equity in a ТЃ130m secondary buyout deal. Radley + Coтs revenues are expected to exceed ТЃ60m in the year to end of April 2008 and have increased...
IRELAND - Claret Capital invests EUR 21m in private jet start-up
Dublin-based Claret Capital has led a EUR 21m funding round for JetBird, a private jet start-up that intends to fly to 75 European airports.
UK - Barclays Ventures leads £10m+ BIMBO of environmental businesses
Barclays Ventures has backed the ТЃ10m+ BIMBO of two environmentally-driven businesses, Solar Home Energy and Warmroof. Both businesses are headquartered in Bournemouth, but operate nationally. The combined turnover of the two companies is around ТЃ20m...
GERMANY – Advent International sells SAG to EQT V
Advent International has sold SAG, a European provider of energy-related infrastructure services to utilities, to EQT V, for an undisclosed sum. SAG provides build and maintenance outsourcing services for utilities in their transmission and distribution...
AUSTRIA/GERMANY – Anmathe now also listed in Frankfurt
Anmathe Beteiligungs AG, listed in Vienna, is now also listed on the Frankfurt Open Market. Anmathe focuses on acquiring Mittelstand companies that go through difficulty or require succession plans. Anmathe holds minority and majority stakes in a number...
SWEDEN - ChromoGenics secures $2.3m from BankInvest
ChromoGenics, a Swedish developer of electrochromic technology, has closed a $2.3m funding round from BankInvest. The financing will be used to scale-up the company’s production capacity.
GERMANY – eCapital bolsters team
Münster-based venture capital firm eCapital has hired Dr Vasant Desai as venture partner. Dr Desai will increase activities in investments and will be directly involved in eCapital portfolio companies. eCapital manages three funds with capital of more...
NORWAY - Warburg Pincus-backed EMGS shares fall by more than 60¯ter IPO
Since Warburg Pincus-backed EMGS, the oil exploration and production company, was listed on Oslo Børs in March, the share price has fallen by over 60%, from NOK 135 to under NOK 50. At the time of the IPO, the listing received a lot of press coverage,...
GREECE – Government takes legislative steps to prevent Marfin building stake
Marfin Investment Group will be unable to stage a hostile takeover bid for Greek telecoms group OTE following a new piece of legislation issued by the Greek government which is to limit the stakes foreign investors can hold in strategic businesses. The...
UK - Gresham completes fourth deal in two months
Gresham Private Equity has completed its fourth deal in two months. Gresham has invested ТЃ21m in Hotter Shoes, a Lancashire-based manufacturer and multi-channel retailer of shoes. Hotter generates sales of ТЃ38m per year and aims to double its turnover...
UK - Candover and First Reserve close in on Abbot
Candover and First Reserve are still fighting it out for oil services business Abbot Group. US-based energy specialist investor First Reserve is believed to be in the lead with a 390p per share offer, compared to Candover's 370p per share offer. A 390p...
UK - Investec sees 45% IRR from Plastics Capital IPO
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance has exited its minority shareholding in Plastics Capital generating an IRR of 45% on its three year holding period. Plastics Capital, a consolidator of niche plastics products manufacturers, floated on AIM yesterday...
HUNGARY - Riverside adds Novamed to Diatron
The Riverside Company has acquired Novamed , an Israeli company operating in the field of microbiology and infectious disease testing. The company is an add-on to the platform company Diatron , a Hungarian-based manufacturer of haematology analysers...
BENELUX - 3i Benelux makes two appointments to advisory board
3i Benelux has announced the appointment of Marc van Gelder and Marcel van Poecke to its advisory board. Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, the former Minister of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands, had joined the advisory board in February. Van Gelder and van...
SPAIN – Applus+ to invest EUR 450m in acquisitions
Carlyle-owned Applus+ has set aside EUR 450m for acquisitions. The company aims to increase its presence worldwide and strengthen those sectors in which it is already present. The investors plan to double the company’s sales and the EBITDA by 2011 and...
UK - YFM backs TBiConnect with £330,000
YFM Group has invested ТЃ330,000 from its South West Ventures Fund into business-to-business eCommerce service TBiConnect.
GERMANY – Finatem exits MBB Liftsystems
Finatem has led the sale of portfolio company MBB Liftsystems AG to Austrian Palfinger Group for an undisclosed sum. The majority shareholder Ixen Partners and another minority investor also realised their stakes on that occasion. MBB Liftsystems is a...
FRANCE - Tetco raises additional EUR 2.1m
ACE Management has invested an additional EUR 2.1m in VoIP specialist Tetco, bringing total funds raised to EUR 10m.