Financials
JC Flowers sells 8% stake in OneSavings for £75m
Partial divestment comes four months after the GP sold a 10% stake in the specialist lender for £110m
Synova's Stackhouse Poland completes refinancing
Deal will fund the insurance brokerage's ongoing acquisitive expansion strategy
Kester backs MBO of CETA Insurance
Niche insurance provider will look to make acquisitions following the transaction
Cinven sells 10% of Just Group for £130m
Sell-down comes six months after Cinven and Permira sold a joint 10.2% stake in the group for £124m
Dunedin-backed Alpha announces intention to float
Proposed IPO of asset and wealth management consultancy would bring to an end a 20-month tenure
Bridges buys facilities management business Just Ask
GP will take a stake of around 70% while the founders retain a minority position
Eurazeo et al. in €40m capital increase for Younited
Previous investors Crédit Mutuel, AG2R and Weber, took part in the round alongside new investors
Goldman Sachs invests £100m in Neyber
Hybrid investment in consumer loans provider will see Goldman Sachs take a minority stake
Nordic Capital acquires MFEX
Nordic Capital invests from its eighth fund, which held a final close on €3.5bn in 2013
Centerbridge et al. to buy Sompo UK division Canopius for $952m
US-based investment firm Gallatin Point Capital also takes part in the deal
Banca Intermobiliare attracts PE offers
Warburg Pincus and JC Flowers filed binding offers for the Italian bank's 74% stake
VC firms back €10m seed round for Coya
Angel investors Mato Peric, Rolf Schrömigens, Elvir Omerbegovic and Marco Knauf also invest
Connection Capital backs £13.6m MBO of JCRA
GP invests £6.7m to support the MBO of the currency hedging and financial risk consultancy
TDR Capital sells Retirement Advantage via trade sale
GP has fully exited its holding in the financial services group after a four-year holding period
Duet buys minority stake in Marfin Bank Romania
Deal is the London-based GP's first financial services investment in the CEE region
Index leads $40m series-C for Prodigy Finance
Postgraduate student loans company also secured a $200m debt facility as part of the deal
Blackstone et al. buy stake in Rothesay Life from Goldman Sachs
Deal comes four years after the consortium of investors acquired a majority stake
Sovereign's Arachas to acquire Capital Cover
Deal is the first bolt-on for the insurance brokerage firm since the GP backed its MBO in February
Disruptive Capital sells Gentoo for an expected 15x return
Sale is expected to complete in Q4 2017, following regulatory approval
Blackstone and CVC to buy PaySafe in £2.96bn deal
Transaction would value equity in the digital payments company at around 13x its 2016 EBITDA
Cinven-backed Viridium buys Protektor
Combined group will manage one million insurance policies and assets of approximately €15bn
EQT VII buys BlueStep
GP acquires the asset from EMK Capital via its €6.75bn EQT VII fund
General Atlantic, DST Global sell Klarna stake to Permira
General Atlantic, DST Global and Niklas Adalberth will all sell equity to Permira, Adalberth will retain a stake
Intesa Sanpaolo's Neva Finventures backs Iwoca
Intesa's venture capital arm acquires a minority stake in the UK SME loan provider