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Cerus Endovascular raises £1.5m from Spark Impact
Medical devices company Cerus Endovascular has completed a £1.5m funding round led by the North West Fund for Biomedical.
BC brings in the banks for Foxtons float
BC Partners has hired Credit Suisse, Numis Securities and Canaccord Genuity to handle the flotation of London estate agency Foxtons.
Cinven to reap 7x from Partnership IPO
Cinven-backed Partnership Assurance Group (PAG) has listed on the London Stock Exchange, in an IPO valuing the business at £1.54bn.
SEP leads £1.2m investment in SocialBro
Scottish Equity Partners has led a £1.2m funding round for SocialBro, a Twitter analytics tool for businesses.
GCP in £6m Fishawack bolt-on
Fishawack, a medical communications agency backed by Growth Capital Partners (GCP), has acquired Switzerland-based Archimed Medical Communications for £6m.
LDC backs Rimor MBO
LDC has supported the management buyout of subsea oil and gas manufacturing and engineering services firm Rimor.
LDC returns to MB Aerospace
Despite exiting MB Aerospace three months ago, LDC, alongside new owner Arlington Capital Partners, has reinvested in the aerospace engineering group to support its acquisition of Delta Industries.
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures invests in ZiLift
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV) has invested in ZiLift, a developer of artificial lift systems.
August Equity hits £100m first close
August Equity's £100m first close brings it more than halfway to its £180m target for Fund III.
WestBridge appoints new senior investment manager
WestBridge Capital has hired Pascal Wittet as senior investment manager following the firm’s recent move to London.
General Catalyst et al. invest $12m in YPlan
General Catalyst Partners has led a $12m series-A funding round into British mobile start-up YPlan alongside existing investors Wellington Partners and Octopus Investments.
CD&R in potential Balfour and Rentokil deal
Clayton Dubilier & Rice is in talks over a potential merging of the office maintenance business of Balfour Beatty and Rentokil Initial.
DFJ Esprit et al. back extended £6.9m Horizon Discovery series-C
A consortium of venture capital firms and private investors has injected a further £6.9m into Horizon Discovery as part of the final close of the company's extended series-C round.
Rutland picks up Equistone’s AFI-Uplift
Equistone Partners Europe has offloaded AFI-Uplift to Rutland Partners in a deal that combines three companies for a total enterprise value of around £85m.
Serena Capital leads £10m round for WorldStores
Serena Capital and existing backers Balderton Capital and Advent Venture Partners have jointly invested £10m in a series-C funding round for UK-based online retailer WorldStores.
GCP-backed Iglu.com acquires Planet Cruise
Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has backed the acquisition of Planet Cruise by its portfolio company Iglu.com.
Rothschild in the running for Byron
Lord Jacob Rothshild's RIT Capital Partners has joined the bidding war for high-end burger chain Byron.
Sun European Partners in £23m Dreams debt pay-off
Sun European Partners is understood to have repaid £23m to creditors of Dreams, the UK-based bed retailer it acquired in a pre-pack deal in March.
Terra Firma granted EMI retrial
Terra Firma is to undergo a retrial over EMI as the private equity house continues to claim that Citigroup fraudulently forced it to overpay for the music group.
VC-backed crowdfunding platform InvestingZone set to launch
UK crowdfunding platform InvestingZone, backed by venture firm E-Synergy and Better Capital founder and managing director Jon Moulton, is preparing to go live next week.
BC Partners hires ex-Blackstone MD
BC Partners is understood to have hired Matthew Tooth as a senior partner in its London office.
JC Flowers sells half of CCM to Encore
JC Flowers has sold a 50.1% stake in Cabot Credit Management (CCM) to Encore Capital Group for £128m, just two weeks after acquiring the UK-based consumer debt manager from AnaCap Financial Partners.
Spark and Accel invest $3.5m in Qriously
Spark Capital has led a $3.5m series-A funding round for London-based Qriously, alongside existing investor Accel Partners.
Enterprise Ventures appoints new mezzanine fund manager
Enterprise Ventures has hired Stewart McCombe to manage the firm’s £15m North West Fund for Mezzanine, which is part of the £185m North West fund.