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ITALY – Cape Live invests EUR 4.98m in Area Impianti
Cape Listed Investment Vehicle in Equity (Cape Live) has committed EUR 4.98m to environmental company Area Impianti. The deal sees Cape Live take a 10.9% stake in the company.
SWEDEN - Doughty Hanson sells Kista office portfolio
Doughty Hanson & Co Real Estate has agreed to sell its office portfolio in Kista, Stockholm for SEK 2.92bn. The portfolio has been acquired by DnB NOR Eiendomsfond I AS, a property fund managed by DnB NOR Bank ASA, DnB NOR Markets, the largest financial...
ITALY – L Capital's Piazza Sempione opens new store
Piazza Sempione, backed by L Capital, the private equity fund sponsored by the LVMH Group, has opened a Moscow store. Milan-based Piazza Sempione, was founded in 1991 and specialises in women’s prêt-a porter clothing and accessories. The opening takes...
FRANCE - 123Venture invests in sex toys
123Venture has invested EUR 1m in a EUR 1.5m seed round of funding for YESforLOV, a cosmetics brand intended for sensual pleasure and well-being.
SWEDEN - Securitas Direct board recommends rejecting EQT's offer
The board of directors of Securitas Direct has released a statement where they recommend the share and warrant holders in the company NOT to accept ESML Intressenter AB, jointly owned by EQT V (ca 64%), Säkl AB (ca8%), Melker Schörling AB (MSAB) (ca 10%)...
SWEDEN - Credit squeeze threatens EUR 6bn Vin & Sprit sale
The sale of Vin & Sprit, owner of the Absolut vodka brand, by the Swedish government might be delayed due to current conditions in the credit market. Vin & Sprit is one of six companies which the Swedish government is planning to sell over the next few...
SPAIN – Monitor Capital acquires Spanish catering business
Monitor Capital has acquired 95% of Franquicias Hoteleras, a catering business with 15 operations in 10 of the country’s provinces.
ITALY – Innogest Capital invests EUR 2m in data management player
Italian venture capital firm Innogest Capital provided Internet intelligence company IntelligenceFocus with a second round of financing valued at approximately EUR 2m.
GERMANY – antispameurope receives expansion capital
High-Tech Gründerfonds, Neuhaus Partners, and hannover innovation funds (hfi) have invested an undisclosed sum in antispameurope GmbH. The early-stage funding will be used to invest in the company's sales and marketing abilities. antispameurope is a Hanover-based...
UK - Advent International completes £523.9m delisting
Advent International has completed the ТЃ523.9m acquisition of Domestic & General Group Plc (D&G) following a successful offer for its shares listed on the London Stock Exchange. D&G is the first fully-financed public-to-private transaction announced...
UK - TA Associates pulls Sophos float
TA Associates IT security portfolio company Sophos has decided not to list this week on the London Stock Exchange. The IPO would have valued the business at approximately ТЃ325m. TA Associates owns a 20% stake in the company in which it invested ТЃ41m...
ITALY – Intesa Sanpaolo sells stake in yacht maker
Intesa Sanpaolo has sold its 12% stake in yacht manufacter, Azimut-Benetti. The deal comes after the agreed investment period came to an end.
UK - Biffa rebuffs HgCapital and Montagu again
Biffa has rejected a second offer pitched at 330p per share from suitors HgCapital and Montagu Private Equity. The waste disposal company has been in the sights of the bidding consortium since early September. The latest offer values the business at ТЃ1.2bn....
UK - Graphite backs £100m secondary buyout of Alexander Mann
Graphite Capital has backed the ТЃ100m secondary management buyout of Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) from Advent International. AMS is a provider of recruitment process outsourcing solutions to blue-chip companies worldwide. Graphite invested ТЃ50m in...
FRANCE - TCR refinances Thermocoax
TCR Capital has refinanced temperature measurement solutions business Thermocoax, two years after backing its secondary buyout.
UK - Infinity invests £2m in invoice discounting start-up
Infinity Asset Management has completed its first deal, investing ТЃ2m in invoice discounting and factoring business Positive Cash Flow Finance. Infinity's funding has been supported by a ТЃ25m debt package supplied by Lloyds TSB. Positive was established...
UK - Aberdeen invests additional £2m in Transys
Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital has completed a ТЃ2m follow-on investment in Transys Holdings Ltd, a rail maintenance business. Aberdeen originally completed the management buyout of the Birmingham-based company in 2002, investing ТЃ1.65m for a...
FRANCE - Streamezzo raises EUR 15m from existing investors
Mobile content software business Streamezzo has raised an additional EUR 15m from Sofinnova Partners, AXA Private Equity, I-Source Gestion, Qualcomm and NTEC.
GERMANY – AFINUM Management acquires d&b audiotechnik AG
AFINUM Management GmbH has acquired d&b audiotechnik AG for an undisclosed sum. The company develops, manufactures and distributes loudspeakers and amplifying systems. Headquartered in Backnang, the company operates under the brand d&b, and has sales...
SWITZERLAND - Sofinnova Ventures leads CHF 36m funding for PregLem SA
San Francisco-based Sofinnova Ventures has led a series-B funding round for Swiss company PregLem SA. Sofinnova has already provided seed capital and acted as lead investor in the series-A round. MVM Life Science Partners LLP, based in London, and NeoMed...
FRANCE - 21 Centrale Partners sells Alltub to management and Naxicap
21 Centrale Partners has sold containers and packaging business Alltub back to its management, supported by Naxicap Partners.
FRANCE - ING Parcom buys Safic Alcan from Alpha
ING Parcom Private equity has agreed to back the secondary buyout of chemicals distributor Safic Alcan from Alpha Associés Conseil.
SPAIN/US – BBVA backs internet service provider
MyStrands has received an investment by BBVA of approximately EUR 16m. Existing investors Sequel and Debaeque Venture Capital have also been involved in this round. Earlier this year a consortium including Debaeque Venture Capital invested a total of...
ITALY – Euraleo and 21 Partners promote public offer
Euraleo and 21 Partners have announced to the Italian regulatory body Consob, their intention to promote a mandatory public offer on the shares in Sirti.