UK / Ireland
UK - Dubai International Capital interested in Liverpool FC
The board of Liverpool Football Club will meet this week to discuss the investment proposals of American billionaire George Gillett, who owns the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club.
UK - Pi Capital in £3m development capital deal with Medispa
Pi Capital has completed a £3m development capital fund raising for MediSpa, to support its roll-out growth plan to set up a national network of cosmetic clinics. Founded in 2004, MediSpa offers a range of cosmetic services under one roof, including...
UK - CDC appoints general counsel and chief compliance officer
CDC Group Plc, the UK government-backed emerging market private equity fund-of-funds investor, has appointed Mark Kenderdine-Davies as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
UK - Hotbed appoints new investment director
Hotbed has appointed Johnny Markham as investment director in its commercial property division. Markham has experience in investment, property development and corporate property solutions, having worked for a number of high-profile clients such as British...
UK - Baird Capital Partners Europe generates 3.5x return on Traffic Support exit
Baird Capital Partners Europe has realised its investment in Traffic Support Ltd, the innovative parking enforcement solutions company. Mouchel Parkman, the integrated support services company, has acquired the business for £21.5m. Added to a £4.8m...
UK - Barclays Private Equity's Your Move to float
Estate agency and surveying business LSL Property Services, formerly known as Your Move and held by Barclays Private Equity is planning a £221m IPO.
UK - Duke Street Capital exits Esporta
Duke Street Capital has realised its investment in Esporta. The racquets and country club focused sports chain has been acquired by the Halabi family trust through an auction process for an undisclosed sum.
UK - Bank of Scotland Corporate exits Paymentshield
Bank of Scotland Corporate has realised its investment in Paymentshield Ltd, a supplier of general insurance products to the mortgage intermediary sector. The value of the deal has not been disclosed although it is known that Bank of Scotland Corporate...
UK - Quester appoints Sergio Levi as director
Quester has appointed Sergio Levi as a director. Levi first joined Quester's ICT team in January 2006, specialising in investments in the semiconductor and electronics sector. As a director, he will be responsible for sourcing, implementing and managing...
UK - Apax exits The Stationary Office
Apax Partners has realised its investment in The Stationary Office (TSO). Britain's largest publisher by volume, which has many high profile contracts with the public sector, has been acquired by corporate information solution provider William Lea, itself...
UK - Amadeus portfolio company agrees $600m merger
Solexa Inc, an Amadeus portfolio company formerly headquartered in Cambridge but now primarily based in California, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Illumina Inc. Illumina will acquire all Solexa shares in a stock-for-stock transaction...
UK - Barclays Ventures supports £30m management buy-in
Barclays Ventures has backed a simultaneous £30m management buy-in of Amwell Systems and Twyford Bushboard. The combined businesses create the UK’s leading independent designer, manufacturer, supplier and installer of both traditional washroom systems...
UK - Baker Tilly's corporate finance team continues to expand
Baker Tilly has strengthened its national corporate finance team with the appointment of three new partners. Kirsty Sandwell, Alistair Hynd and Angela Toner join as partners taking Baker Tilly’s total number of corporate finance partners to 27. Sandwell,...
UK - Amec rejects £1.5bn bid from TPG and First Reserve
A takeover bid by Texas Pacific Group and First Reserve for engineering services group Amec has been rejected by its board. It was reported that the offer, at £1.5bn, was rebuffed on the grounds that it did not value the company highly enough. Analysts...
UK - Joseph A Stanislaw joins Climate Change Capital
A leading energy expert, Joseph A Stanislaw, has joined the international advisory board of Climate Change Capital, the UK based investment banking group dedicated to investment in clean energy and a low carbon economy.
UK - Hawkpoint moves offices
From the 20th November, Hawkpoint is moving offices and its new address will be: Hawkpoint Partners Ltd 41 Lothbury, London, EC2R 7AE, UK.
UK - Launch of Kenmore Private Equity
Kenmore Property Group, the international real estate business which operates from 9 offices in the UK, Europe and Dubai, has announced the formation of its sister company Kenmore Private Equity (KPE). KPE will originate transactions initially in the...
UK - Dunedin appoints new directors
Dunedin has announced that Giles Derry and Mark Ligertwood have been appointed directors. Mark Ligertwood joined Dunedin in 1999 following a six-month secondment from Ernst & Young’s Corporate Finance department where he qualified as a chartered accountant....
UK - Investment management company moves to Liverpool
A specialist multi manager investment firm with over £100m of assets under management is expanding into Liverpool with backing from Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF). Mercater Capital Management has opened offices in Liverpool after receiving...
UK - Liverpool Ventures appoints new managing director
A new managing director has been appointed to Liverpool Ventures. Liverpool Ventures provides specialist support services to businesses applying to and backed by, the £27m Liverpool Seed Fund, an MSIF Fund. Malcolm Stewart, 45, joins the Liverpool Ventures...
UK - Inflexion sells ACIS to The Carlyle Group
Inflexion Private Equity has sold its entire stake in Advanced Communications and Information Systems Ltd (ACIS) in a secondary buyout to The Carlyle Group. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
UK - Enterprise receives approach from unknown private equity company
A company which provides outsourced planned and reactive maintenance services to utility companies and local authorities, Enterprise, has received a takeover approach from an unknown private equity company.
UK - Alchemy in takeover bid for Cathedral Capital
Alchemy Partners is set to acquire insurance and reinsurance group Cathedral Capital after 80% of the unlisted public company's shareholders recommended the offer.
IRELAND - Irish Venture Capital Association elects new chairman
Niall Carroll, managing director of ACT Venture Capital, has been elected chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association.