UK / Ireland
Silver Lake invests $500m in City Football Group
City Football Group, valued at $4.8bn, owns football clubs including Manchester City FC
Silverfleet-backed Microgen merges with Touchstone
Silverfleet has backed the merger drawing equity from its European Development Fund
Acropolis invests $20m in SEV
Acropolis is a family office based in London that makes investments in private companies
MGV holds first close for €150m early-stage fund
Fund achieves a €75m first close and expects to hit its target by the end of 2020
LDC invests £30m in Croud
Fresh capital will also go towards further global expansion and expansion of its range of services
Inflexion invests in Ridgewall, backs acquisition of QDos
QDos is Ridgewall's fourth acquisition in the past year and was backed by Inflexion
Macquarie acquires Biocow stake
BioCow uses anaerobic digestion to create energy from agricultural waste
FTV Capital leads $65m round for CloudFactory
FTV Capital partner Alex Mason and principal Puskoor join CloudFactory's board
Mobeus leads $11m series-A for Active Navigation
Company plans to open offices in New York and Los Angeles, and launch a new SaaS product
Bridges invests in AgilityEco
Bridges drew equity from its Evergreen fund, which held a final close on £50m in July 2018
Investindustrial closes seventh buyout fund on €3.75bn
Fund targets European companies operating in the consumer, industrial and healthcare services sectors
August Equity targeting early-2020 close for fifth fund
August Equity Partner IV closed on £224m in April 2017 and recently made its 10th acquisition
Cinven, Astorg to acquire LGC for £3bn
Advent International, Bain, Blackstone and Carlyle were among the bidders in the process
Syncona leads £32m series-B for Azeria
Magda Jonikas and Martin Murphy of Syncona join the board of Azeria Therapeutics
August acquires dentistry software developer Code
Deal is the 10th investment from August Equity Partners IV, which closed on £224m in 2017
Mid-market stays loyal to English limited partnership
Luxembourg structures may have their proponents, but the Brexit drama does not seem to have dented the appeal of the English partnership
Advent's £3.9bn Cobham take-private likely to go ahead
Advent made a takeover offer of 165 pence per share in cash, which represents a 34% premium in July
GHO Capital closes second healthcare fund on €975m
Fund targets companies operating in the healthcare industry, primarily pharma, medtech and outsourced services
August Equity exits Wax Digital
This is the fund's sixth realisation, following the sale of Vet Partners and Compass Community
Foresight sells Idio for 2x return
Insight Venture Partners acquired Episerver, the acquirer, from Accel KKR in 2018
Fog City leads $6m series-A for Ad-Lib
Company will use the fresh capital to expand further in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions
Warburg Pincus Global Growth Fund raises $14.8bn
Fund targets companies operating in a wide range of sectors and deploys tickets in the $50-500m range
Hermes GPE closes PEC IV on $603.5m
Predecessor vehicle PEC III closed on $389m in October 2017 and is now fully deployed
Arlington acquires Doncasters' forging business
Arlington expects to put fresh capital into the business and grow it through acquisitions
