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UK - Tate & Lyle Ventures makes first investment
Tate & Lyle Ventures, a fund launched with backing from the sugar refiner and ingredients producer to invest in next generation food ingredients, has completed its first deal. The fund has invested in food safety diagnostics company Lumora Ltd, a spin-out...
GERMANY - Allianz Capital Partners to increase investment activity
Allianz Capital Partners is reported to look to invest up to EUR 1bn in the next 18 months. Market rumours suggest that the financial investor is involved in and close to signing two transactions with a combined equity value of EUR 300m in the next few...
FRANCE - Novexel receives Europe's largest biotech fundraising in 12 months
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners has led a EUR 50m series-B funding for Paris-based Novexel, a laboratory which researches and develops novel types of anti-infectives for the treatment of bacterial and fungal infections.
ESTONIA - Celecure receives EUR 1.6m from four Skype founders
Ambient Sound Investments (ASI) has agreed to invest EUR 1.6m in Estonian biotechnology drug developer Celecure to accelerate the international breakthrough of its projects.
BELGIUM - Barclays Private Equity France acquires Desmet Ballestra
Barclays Private Equity France has acquired a majority stake in Desmet Ballestra, operative in the fields of engineering and supply of plants and equipment for the edible oil industry, the detergent-surfactants and related chemical industry and the oleochemical...
UK - Stockwell Capital Investments announces proposed admission to AIM
Stockwell Capital Investments Plc, a newly formed, closed-ended investment company which has been established to invest in diversified private equity situations, directly through co-investments and indirectly through fund investments, today announces...
UK - Barclays Ventures exits Ancyra in £22m deal
Barclays Ventures has realised its investment in Care Holdings Ltd, an operator of care homes for the elderly which trades as Ancyra Health Ltd. The investor made the exit via a trade sale to Aermid Health Care Ltd following a direct approach to the vendors....
FRANCE - XAnge Capital raises EUR 15m
XAnge Private Equity's evergreen investment vehicle XAnge Capital has completed its second fundraising. The vehicle, which was created in April 2003, gathered EUR 15m from its previous investors.
UK - The Capital Fund provides instant messaging provider with £250,000
The Capital Fund has provided secure instant messaging service provider, Presence Networks, with £250,000 of expansion capital. One of a series of significant investments in Presence Networks, The Capital Fund’s backing will help take the company’s...
UK - Finance Wales invests £600,000 in animation company
Wales’ largest independent animation studio is planning further international expansion after securing a £600,000 capital investment from Finance Wales which will see it take a minority stake in the company. BAFTA award-winning company, Calon, will...
GLOBAL - SJBerwin loses three partners to Kirkland & Ellis
SJ Berwin LLP has announced that three private equity partners, Mark Mifsud, Richard Watkins and Justin Dolling, will move to rival law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s fund formation team.
ITALY - Mobango secures backing from Doughty Hanson
Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures has invested EUR 2m in Mobango, an online and mobile services developer.
UK - Mark Barrow leaves Close Brothers Corporate Finance
Unquote” can reveal that Close Brothers Corporate Finance has lost Mark Barrow, a director and head of Close Brothers' private equity coverage team. Barrow joined Close in 1996 and had been made head of the team in March 2005. Darren Redmayne, co-founder...
UK - Phoenix Equity Partners appoints John Rastrick
Phoenix Equity Partners has appointed John Rastrick to its team. Rastrick will have specific responsibility for Phoenix's activities and investments in the North of England, where he will be based.
UK - AIG expands its European leveraged loan group
AIG Global Investment Group has further strengthened its European leveraged loan group, with the appointment of Margarita Sabarny and Rebecca Reeve to its London office.
UK - AlixPartners names three new London managing directors
AlixPartners, the international corporate turnaround, performance improvement and financial advisory firm, has promoted three of its London team to the position of managing director: Laura Barlow, Andrew Grantham and David Hutchinson. The three professionals...
UK - Activist shareholders put pressure on 3i's Countrywide offer
It has emerged that investment group Artisan Partners and hedge fund Boussard & Gavaudan have been joined by another Countrywide shareholder, Standard Life, in opposing 3i's 490p per share offer for the estate agency chain. The three investors argue that...
UK - ISIS backs £33m buyout of AITCL
ISIS Equity Partners has backed the £33m management buyout of Anglo Irish Trust Company Ltd (AITCL). The investor provided £13m from its ISIS III fund to acquire a significant minority stake in the Isle of Man-based offshore trust and company administration...
GERMANY - Buchanan Capital Partners acquires stake in time:matters
Funds advised by Buchanan Capital Partners have acquired a majority stake in time:matters GmbH, the Neu-Isenburg-based specialist logistics company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Cargo AG.
UK - Wellington Partners leads EUR 18m investment in Truphone
Wellington Partners has led an EUR 18m series-A funding round for London-based mobile VoIP start-up Truphone. Also participating in financing Truphone are existing investors Eden Ventures and a number of business angels, as well as Independent News and...
UK - Bank of Scotland backs MBO of Willis & Gambier
Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance has funded the £55m management buyout of Willis & Gambier Ltd, taking a minority stake in the company.
UK - Bank of Scotland backs demerger of components division from Nylacast
Nylacast has agreed a demerger of its components division with backing from Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance in a deal worth over £30m. The components division of Nylacast supplies names such as Delphi, JCB, Caterpillar and GSK with highly engineered...
UK - More bad news for Countrywide deal
Sources report that UK hedge fund Boussard & Gavaudan has amassed a 5% stake in Countrywide and intends to oppose 3i's recommended 490p per share offer.
NORWAY - Norvestor's Elixia buys Sports Club
Elixia Holding AS has acquired Sports Club AS, creating a fitness club chain with over 110,000 members in the Nordic region. Following the merger, the fitness chain will have a total of 24 clubs in various Norwegian cities and an additional 7 in Finland.