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UK - UNQUOTE AWARDS SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

unquote" is delighted to announce the shortlist for the unquote" Private Equity Awards 2007. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony being held on 28 November at The Royal Horticultural Halls in London, SW1P. Now in its third year, the event...

GERMANY – SiC Processing AG closes EUR 53m financing round

zouk ventures has led a EUR 53.4m financing round in SiC Processing, a management and recycling company of used slurry from the solar and semiconductor wafer industries. Other investors joining the round include Merrill Lunch Corporate Principal Investments...

ESTONIA - Skype founders back pet social networking site

The two social networking sites, www.uniteddogs.com and www.unitedcats.com , have received funding from Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the investment company set up by the four founding engineers of Skype. The capital injection gives ASI a 15% stake...

UK - Kaupthing acquires DLG from Promethean for £75m

Kaupthing Capital Partners has acquired consumer lifestyle database business Data Locator Group (DLG) for ТЃ75m. The deal represents an exit for Promethean Investments, which backed the ТЃ23.5m management buyout of DLG in March 2006. DLG has since grown...

UK - Octopus and Foresight see 4.4x return on Covion exit

Octopus Private Equity and Foresight Group have seen a 4.4x return from the sale of facilities infrastructure service business Covion. Trade buyer Balfour Beatty Group Ltd acquired Covion for ТЃ33m ending Octopus and Foresight's two year ownership of...

SPAIN - Advent-backed Euroloc in EUR 240m refinancing

Machinery rental business Euroloc, controlled by Advent International, has carried out a restructuring of its debt. The package, believed to total EUR 240m, was provided by Banesto and Royal Bank of Scotland. It was mentioned that the restructuring will...

UK - Zeus completes £50m first investment

Zeus Private Equity has completed the first investment from its maiden fund, investing more than ТЃ50m in a new platform company to carry out a buy-and-build strategy within the UK regional hotel sector.

UK - The Capital Fund backs Biocontrol with £500,000

The Capital Fund has invested ТЃ250,000 as part of a ТЃ500,000 funding round in Biocontrol. Biocontrol's research focuses on developing the clinical use of bacteriophages, that is naturally occuring viruses, which attack and destroy harmful bacteria....

UK - YFM invests in Dynmark

In a second round of funding, the South West Ventures Fund, managed by the YFM Group, has made an undisclosed investment in Dynmark International Ltd, a mobile phone messaging applications developer.

SPAIN - Corpfin sells its stake in Futura

UK-based fund Hutton Collins and the management team of charter airline Futura have purchased Corpfin Capital's majority stake in the business. It is understood that the company's founder Air Lingus is also selling its shareholding.

NORDIC - Nordic unquote" Awards shortlist announced

Nordic unquote” is pleased to announce the shortlist for the second Nordic unquote” Awards to be held on the 30th October at the Grand Hotel, Stockholm. The evening event follows the day-long Nordic unquote” Private Equity Congress also taking place at...