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UK – Hutton Collins scales £150m Everest deal
Hutton Collins has acquired a 21.5% stake in home improvement company Everest in a deal that values the company at ТЃ150m.
UK - Bowmark invests in travel services provider JAC Group
Bowmark Capital has invested ТЃ11m in b2b travel services provider JAC Group. Royal Bank of Scotland provided an unspecified amount of additional senior debt to support the deal.
DENMARK - Via Venture Partners invests DKK 16m
Via Venture Partners has invested DKK 16m in Radiocomp, a provider of WiMAX radio infrastructure systems, in exchange for a minority stake in the business.
FRANCE - Electronic ticketing business raises EUR 8m
Partech International, CM-CIC Capital Privé and CIC Finance & High Co Venture have invested EUR 8m in the second round of financing for ticketing company Digitick.
NL - Candover extends acceptance period for Stork bid
Candover has extended the acceptance period for its EUR 1.5 bn Stork bid until September 18 in the face of shareholder opposition. LME Eignarhaldsfelag ehf, a holding company of Icelandic food processing group Marel , has recently raised its stake...
EUROPE - Stoxx launches private equity index
Stock exchange monitor Stoxx today launched a new index which tracks the performance of Europe's 20 largest listed private equity firms.
UK - Beringea backs Coal Restaurants
Beringea has committed ТЃ1.7m to emerging dining chain Coal Restaurants through its ProVen VCTs. The fund manager knew the firm's founder John Gater through a previous partnership with Gater's Ma Potterтs restaurants. Beringea sold the 16-strong chain...
EUROPE - CVC hires former RBS CFO
CVC Capital Partners has appointed former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief financial officer Fred Watt as chief operating officer.
FRANCE - EdRIP leads buyout of Captain Tortue
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Defi Gestion and BNP Paribas Développement have backed the owner buyout of children and women's pret-a-porter brand Captain Tortue.
UK - Kelso floats Sepura
Kelso Place Asset Management has floated Cambridge-based radio terminal supplier Sepura on the London Stock Exchange for proceeds of ТЃ42m.
SWEDEN - Arthur D. Little makes new appointment
The corporate adviser group, Arthur D. Little has recruited Hans Nyctelius MD, MBA to the venture capital and private equity team in life science and operational management.
CEE - Advent International announces new Ukraine team
Advent International has appointed Tamas Nagy and Natalie Polischuk as the first members of its Kiev team.
CEE - Enterprise Investors appoints two new partners
Enterprise Investors has appointed Monika Nachyla as a new partner, and promoted Christian Nacu, the head of the firm's Romania office, to partner.
NL - ING joins Agendia's pool of backers
ING is the latest investor to back molecular diagnostics company Agendia BV. The bank has joined existing investors Gilde Healthcare Partners , Van Herk Biotech BV and Global Life Sciences Ventures on the company's fourth financing round, valued at...
UK – Bridges invests in Newcastle building
Bridges Ventures has invested ТЃ750,000 in The Sheffield Insulation Unit, an industrial building in Newcastle.
FRANCE - Cita Gestion backs horse riding equipment business
Unquote" has learned that Cita Gestion has invested EUR 1m in Bordeaux-based Freejumpsystem, alongside its previous inevstors regional funds Fa Dièse and SFFP.
FRANCE - Crédit Agricole Private Equity invests in temporary work agency
Crédit Agricole Private Equity and regional fund Sofipaca have invested less than EUR 10m in equity in exchange for a minority stake in Proman, a temporary work agency.
FRANCE - Naxicap backs ip-label
Naxicap Partners has backed the leveraged buyout of ip-label, a company which measures the perceived quality of digital services and applications.
SWEDEN - Syntune AB receives SEK 47.8m from InnovationsKapital et al.
InnovationsKapital has led a SEK 47.8m financing round of financing for Syntune AB, a developer of lasers. Other investors who participated in the round were Teknoinvest, Vision Capital and existing private investors.
BELGIUM - Consortium invests EUR 4m in SteelThermHex
Finindus, Gemma Frisius Fonds KU Leuven, Allegro Investment Fund, KBC Arkiv and a number of private investors have together invested more than EUR 4m in SteelThermHex, a young Flemish enterprise specialised in the production of sandwich panels with a...
GERMANY - LRP Capital's portfolio company makes acquisition
CS Consulting AG, a portfolio company of LRP Capital, has acquired Berlin based MDE. The acquisition is a further step in developing CS Consulting AG from a regional leader in IT consulting for banks and insurance companies, to a national leader in its...
NORWAY - NorgesInvestor creates Nordic music chain
NorgesInvestor has together with Pål Asplin created a new retail chain for music instruments, Music Retail Holding (MRH). Pål Asplin presented the idea for NorgesInvestor to acquire the four largest stores and create one holding company. The investor...
FRANCE - Dailymotion raises EUR 25m from AGF-led syndicate
Unquote" can exclusively reveal details of France's largest venture deal of year - the EUR 25m second round of financing for video-sharing website Dailymotion.
UK - Imperial Innovations Group invests in Molecular Vision
Imperial Innovations Group has invested EUR 500,000 in handheld diagnostics device developer Molecular Vision.