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CBPE's OH Assist acquires Working On Wellbeing
Acquisition of mobile healthcare provider comes 14 months after the GP acquired OH Assist from Atos IT Services
Blackstone buys majority stake in Cloudreach
Blackstone has acquired a majority stake in Cloudreach, a global cloud service provider headquartered in London.
Epiris's Axio sells OAG to Vitruvian for $215m
Deal brings the total returns generated by the GP's investment in the data and analysis group to 3.9x
CapMan subsidiary Norvestia sells Idean Enterprises
CapMan acquired fellow Finland-based investment company Norvestia in November last year
CBPE's Xafinity floats with £190.3m market-cap
Divestment of the pension consultancy generated a 4.3x return for the GP after a four-year tenure
Cairngorm's Polyframe acquires Customade
New enlarged group has revenues in excess of ТЃ100m, following an MBO in August 2016
HgCapital raises £3.1bn in double fund close
GP successfully closes HgCapital 8 and Mercury 2 on ТЃ2.5bn and ТЃ575m respectively
Luxembourg the post-Brexit "jurisdiction of choice"
Country's RAIF structures, coupled with Britain's "wait and see" status, are luring more funds to Luxembourg
BNP Paribas, UI Gestion invest in La Boucherie
Existing backer Naxicap first entered the group in 2008 via an €8m expansion round
Alantra closes Alantra PEF III on €450m hard-cap
GP's previous vehicle, Alantra PEF III, has reportedly reaped returns equating to 2x money
LDC invests £6.5m in Blue Bay Travel
Deal comes shortly after the GP supported a bolt-on acquisition by another travel business, Away Resorts
Creandum leads €5.5m round for Pleo
Round adds to DKK 20m raised in September 2016 from early-stage investors, Danish family offices and a foundation
Beringea in £2m round for Perfect Channel
Online auction and trading platform will invest in product development and marketing activity
EQT sells SEK 696m AcadeMedia share block
GP retains a 41.6% stake in the Swedish private education company, which it listed in June 2016
Q4 Barometer: Large-cap deals boost value in a shrinking market
Spike in megadeals boosted aggregate deal value in Q4, though volume was down 20% year-on-year
Initiative & Finance backs Extruflex SBO
French vinyl extrusion was notably backed by Chequers Capital between 2003-2013
Vision Capital makes 5.2x on Nordax exit
Final sale of Stockholm-listed shares in the consumer finance business comes a-year-and-a-half after Nordax's IPO
MMC in £3.75m round for Bloom & Wild
Deal for flower delivery platform comes 19 months after the VC led a ТЃ2.5m investment in the company
Quadrivio exits Pantex in trade sale
Exit is the seventh completed by Quadrivio from its Quadrivio Q2 vehicle
Connection backs £10.2m ACT Clean MBO
GP invests ТЃ5m to support the buyout of the cleaning and kitchen portering business
Karolinska exits Inhalation Sciences
Family-owned investment company RУЅsunda FУЖrvaltning enters the company's capital structure as part of the deal
HTGF backs Wetransform
German early-stage VC investor expands in the spatial data system market
Macquarie sells 40% Pisto stake to Crédit Agricole entity Predica
Macquarie Group became sole shareholder in the group last year after acquiring Antin Infrastructure's shares
Siparex buys stake in HNH Hotels
French GP will support growth with an aim to double turnover and the number of rooms in the next five years