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GERMANY – HgCapital acquires toy manufacturer
HgCapital has acquired a majority stake in German toy manufacturer Schleich GmbH for an undisclosed amount. Schleich GmbH is based in Schwäbisch Gmünd and was founded in 1935. The company develops and produces figurines that are marketed world wide.
FRANCE - FPG-LFPI sells Cognon-Morin to BSN Medical
FPG-LFPI, Lazard's private equity firms, have announced the sale of its 55% stake in phlebological tights manufacturer Cognon-Morin to BSN Medical, for an undisclosed amount.
SWITZERLAND – NORD Holding buys into Kentaro AG
NORD Holding Unternehmensbeteiligungsgesellschaft has acquired a minority stake in sports rights agency Kentaro AG following a share capital increase. The financial investor acquired a 9.5% stake for an undisclosed sum and will increase its shareholding...
FRANCE - CVC hires industrial expert for its Paris office
CVC Capital Partners has announced the appointment of Patrick Verschelde as industrial partner in Paris.
UK - August Equity acquires superyacht publisher for £29m
August Equity has backed the ТЃ29m secondary management buyout of Boat International Group from funds managed by Henderson Private Capital. August Equity invested ТЃ13.4m of equity funding alongside debt facilities provided by Lloyds TSB to acquire the...
UK - LDC exits express company ANC through £120m sale to FedEx
LDC has sold UK express transportation company ANC Group to FedEx Corporation for ТЃ120m having acquired it just eleven months earlier for ТЃ37.3m. The original deal in February 2006, saw LDC acquire a 26.25% stake in the company through a refinancing...
UK - Gresham backs MBO of Town Centre Restaurants from Bank of Scotland Corporate
Gresham Private Equity has backed the secondary buy-out of Town Centre Restaurants (TCR) from Bank of Scotland Corporate, in a deal with a total funding package of ТЃ48m. With over 50 sites in the UK's busiest town and shopping centres, Town Centre Restaurants...
NL - 3i to acquire Business Media Europe from VNU
3i has announced that it has reached an agreement in principle to acquire substantially all of VNU Business Media Europe (BME), a Dutch careers classified and B2B magazines group, from VNU.
UK - Barclays Private Equity backs £28m MBO of Artigiano
Barclays Private Equity has backed the ТЃ28m management buyout of Scala Collections Ltd, the direct retailer of Italian designed ladiesт clothes, shoes and accessories which trades as Artigiano. As part of the deal, Barclays Private Equity will take a...
POLAND – ARGUS acquires GTX Hanex Plastic
ARGUS Capital Partners have acquired a majority stake in Polish manufacturer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) performs, bottles and film, GTX Hanex Plastic, for an undisclosed sum from Montluc Holdings. Following the buyout the financial investor intends...
UK - PPM Capital appoints new chairman for Paramount Restaurants
PPM Capital has appointed a new chairman to portfolio company Paramount Restaurants. John Conlan, the founder of First Leisure Plc and Chorion Plc, and more recently chairman of Barrucuda Plc, the managed pubs and bars business formerly backed by PPM...
UK - Primary Capital refinances YO! Sushi
Primary Capital has refinanced portfolio company YO! Sushi, the Japanese conveyor-belt restaurant brand it backed in a ТЃ10m management buyout in 2003. Over the last three years, YO! Sushi has expanded to 26 sites across the UK and eight international...
SWITZERLAND – SIRS-Lab raises EUR 10m
Affentranger Associates have led a EUR 10m funding round in SIRS-Lab alongside bm-t Beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen and Swiss institutional investors. The funding will be used to bring new molecular diagnostics to the market.
SWEDEN - EQT V hits EUR 4.25bn
EQT has closed its latest fund on EUR 4.25bn. EQT V attracted 25% of money from the Nordic region, 30% from the UK and Continental Europe, 25% from North America, and the remaining 20% from the rest of the world. New commitments came from Australia, Canada...
SPAIN - Ahorro Corporación invests in Biodiesel Alicante
Ahorro Corporación has agreed to purchase 20% of Biodiesel Alicante from Grupo Nátura. The consideration has not been disclosed.
SPAIN - Caixaholding backs baby food producer
According to reports in the Spanish press, Caixaholding has purchased 35% of Nafree for approximately EUR 1.25m. Private equity firm Molins Capital Inversión is reported to have invested as well, providing a total of EUR 50,000.
FRANCE - Canadian Telecom Media Fund invests EUR 8m in CheckPhone
Telecom Media Fund, a joint fund of Trio Capital and la Caisse de dépôts et placement du Quebec, has invested EUR 8m ($10.2m) in France-based VoIP security software developer CheckPhone.
UK - 3i sells Precise Media to Phoenix Equity Partners for £42m
3i has sold UK media monitoring agency Precise Media to Phoenix Equity Partners for ТЃ42m. The sale generated an IRR of 101% and a multiple of 3.2x for 3i, which backed the BIMBO of the company (then known as KBBI) in April 2005. During the holding period,...
NL - Casema, Multikabel and Essent merger receives regulatory clearance
Warburg Pincus and Cinven have received regulatory clearance by the European Commission for their intention to merge Dutch cable operator Essent Kabelcom with the Casema/Multikabel combination which received clearance in September. The new entity will...
UK - Legal & General Ventures sells Tragus to Blackstone
Legal & General Ventures (LGV) has announced the sale of Tragus Limited, one of the leading casual dining groups in the UK, to The Blackstone Group for ТЃ267m.
UK - EMI ends bid talks with Permira
EMI has reportedly ended talks about a potential ТЃ2.5bn sale to Permira. It is understood that the offer was not considered to fully reflect the prospects for and the value of the company which EMI could recommend to shareholders. The Financial Times...
AUSTRIA - Cerberus takes BAWAG in Austria's largest ever buyout
A group of investors led by US-based Cerberus Capital Management has agreed to purchase BAWAG P.S.K. from trade union OeGB.
SWEDEN - Doughty Hanson sells Tumba Centrum for SEK 550m
Doughty Hanson & Co Real Estate has agreed to sell Tumba Centrum to Citycon for SEK 550m. Tumba Centrum is a 32,000 square metre shopping centre, which also includes the municipal library and art gallery as well as municipal offices and residential apartments....
FINLAND - Aspida secures EUR 500,000 in funding
Finnish Industry Investment and private investors have invested EUR 500,000 in software company Aspida Oy.