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Disruptive Capital partially exits Tantalum in trade sale
Sale of the stolen vehicle tracking division comes 17 months after the VC's most recent investment
Stonehage Fleming expands private capital team
Meiping Yap joins as director and James Jefferson as senior associate
BGF invests £3.5m in Planixs
Data analytics software company will invest in marketing, product development and recruitment
Palamon-backed Simplify bolts on My Home Move
Smedvig Capital will retain the significant minority stake it purchased in 2005 for £6.8m
Ares refinances PE-backed Daisy with £1bn
Deal will enable the telecommunications company's founder to buy out minority investors
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: Crypto craze
Listen to the latest episode of the Unquote Private Equity Podcast, in which the team decodes the intricacies of securitised token offerings
Blossom Capital closes debut fund on $85m
Firm will look to make four or five deals per year and will focus on European technology startups
First Reserve to buy Flow Control from Weir for £275m
Deal values the carve-out from the listed Scottish mechanical engineering firm at £275m
Souter takes part in £60m round for DivideBuy
Equity and debt round will support marketing and increase the lender's available pool of capital
Cairngorm buys Sentry Doors
Deal marks Cairngorm's 18th transaction since July 2016 and its entry into the fire protection sector
LDC sells ATG Access to trade in £22.5m deal
ATG has been sold to Hills & Smith, a FTSE 250 group operating in infrastructure and galvanising
QED Investors lead £3.5m round for Capitalise
SMEs can use Capitalise to seek financial advice from competing providers
Downing Ventures leads £6.5m investment in Imagen
Guinness Asset Management and Cambridge Innovation Capital also take part in the round
Secondaries in Private Equity
Unquote analysis of the secondaries market is now available for download
Ardian acquires Study Group from Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners bought Study Group in a secondary buyout worth $570m in 2010
ICG hires Jamie Rivers from BC Partners
Rivers' deals at BC Partners included Acuris, CarTrawler, Cote Restaurants, Elysium and VetPartners
Workday Ventures invests in Beamery
Beamery said it has raised $40m to date and experienced 300% growth in the last 12 months
Multiples Heatmap: winter cooldown across Europe
Latest Multiples Heatmap, published in association with Clearwater International, is now available to download
Exponent to exit Bullitt via restructuring - reports
Reported transaction would come less than two years after Exponent acquired a 65% stake in the firm
Mobeus appoints Mead as venture partner
New recruit left his role as chief investment officer at Mercia Technologies in 2018
LDC backs £110m buyout of Evolution Funding
GP acquires a minority stake in the carve-out of the online B2B car finance broker
Augmentum leads £150m debt and equity round for Iwoca
NIBC and existing investors including Prime also took part in the round for the SME lender
Inovia holds close on $600m for double fundraise, launches in London
Initially launched the funds in May 2018 and held initial closes towards the end of the year
Adams Street co-leads $75m series-E for GoCardless
GV and Salesforce also lead the round, with Accel, Balderton, Notion and Passion taking part