UK / Ireland
UK - Braveheart invests £300k in Conjunct
Braveheart has invested £300,000 in Conjunct Ltd, a company that specialises in implementing short range optical interconnects using innovative transceivers.
UK - AAC acquires Dewhurst
AAC Capital Partners has acquired a significant stake in James Dewhurst, a manufacturer of engineered technical textiles.
UK - RJD leads £28m buyout of Stone Group
RJD Partners has lead the £28m management buyout of Stone Group, an IT provider to the public sector.
UK - Advent closes €6.6bn buyout fund
Advent International has closed GPE VI on its hard cap of €6.6bn.
UK - Exponent acquires Lowell from Cabot Square
Exponent Private Equity has acquired specialist debt purchasing company Lowell Holdings Ltd from Cabot Square Capital for an undisclosed sum.
UK - RJD leads £20m buyout of Character World
RJD Partners has led the management buyout of licensed character household textiles company Character World.
UK - LDC buys kidsunlimited from Isis
LDC has invested an undisclosed sum in kidsunlimited, an operator of children's day care nurseries, in a secondary buyout from Isis Equity Partners.
UK - Bowmark backs Datix buyout
Bowmark Capital has backed the management buyout of healthcare software provider Datix.
UK - KCP invests in Pandora Books
Key Capital Partners has acquired book supplier to schools Pandora Books for an undisclosed sum, alongside the company's managing director.
Q & A - The legal view
Nine months on from the first signs of a credit crunch, Nicola Bock talks to a crack group of private equity lawyers to assess where the market now stands and how things have changed
Squeeze those suppliers
With the new capital gains tax (CGT) regime upon us, a clearer picture should emerge of the mismatch between vendor and buyer price expectations. It has been suggested that the CGT changes have given a false picture of deal flow, especially in the lower...
UK - GLE acquires YFM
GLE Group has acquired early stage investment company YFM Group for an undisclosed sum.
UK - Finance Wales appoints new chairman
Finance Wales has appointed Ian Johnson as the new chairman.
UK - CGT changes prompts Towergate sale
Och-Ziff has completed the £100m acquisition of preference shares in Towergate, the insurance underwriter and broker. The transaction comes on the back of an aborted deal with Candover that would have seen the private equity investor acquire a 20 per...
UK - SJ Berwin lawyer departs
Bruce Gardner has left SJ Berwin to join US law firm Sidley Austin. He worked in the financial services department.
UK - Milestone buys Coffee Nation
Milestone Capital Partners has led the secondary buyout of Coffee Nation, a self-service coffee provider in a deal reported to be worth around £25m. RBS provided senior debt and capex facilities and Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance provided £5.25m...