UK / Ireland
UK - Thule and Blue Run make £1.5m Muzicall investment
Thule Investments, through Bru II Venure Capital Fund Sicar, and Blue Run Ventures have participated in a £1.5m funding round for ringback tone service provider Muzicall.
IRELAND - Thule leads £1m Datactics funding
Thule Investments has led a £1m funding round for data quality company Datactics, alongside Clarendon Fund Managers.
UK - LDC hires Martin Rowland
LDC has appointed Martin Rowland as investment director.
ITALY/UK - Foresight opens Italian office
Foresight Group has opened a new office in Rome, which will be headed up by Luca Passariello.
UK - Amplio hires Andrea Davi
Amplio Partners has hired Andrea Davi as partner.
UK - BC Partners in talks for RBS insurance division
Patrick Snowball, former head of insurance group Aviva's UK arm, is reported to have held talks with buyout house BC Partners regarding a takeover bid for RBS's insurance business.
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Extraordinary: LP defaults
Signs of panic are ubiquitous. The Bank of England has just slashed interest rates by 150 basis points to 3% - their lowest level in 54 years. All this seems to have achieved is to confirm fears that the situation is indeed dire, while doing little to...
UK - Solon supports GTS
Solon Ventures has made an indisclosed investment into gaming software developer Gaming Technology Solutions (GTS).
UK - Kelso supports Marshal merger
Kelso Place Asset Management has supported the merger of portfolio software company Marshal Holdings Ltd with US-based 8e6 International, a supplier of web filtration appliances and technology.
BENELUX/NORDIC/UK - Goldman acquires ABN AMRO portfolio
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of 20 buyout investments from ABN AMRO.
UK - Clyde Blowers acquires Textron division in $1bn deal
Scottish engineering group Clyde Blowers has acquired the fluid and power division of US-based Fortune 500 industrial group Textron, in a $1bn deal that included equity from the company's private equity fund, Clyde Blowers Capital Fund II LP.
EUROPE - Duke Street appoints partner
European mid-market buyout house Duke Street has appointed Miles Cresswell-Turner as a partner specialising in Financial Services.
EUROPE - CVCs remain optimistic
Corporate Venture Capitalists (CVCs) remain optimistic about investment activity in Europe according to a survey published by Ernst & Young, with respondents anticipating that Europe will be the second most important market globally over the next 24 months,...
UK - Brewin Dolphin strengthens management team
Brewin Dolphin Investment Banking has made a series of promotions to its management team.