Media
UK - Barclays Ventures exits Media Audits Group Ltd
Barclays Ventures has realised its investment in Media Audits Group Limited, a market leader in measuring returns on advertising investment.
NETHERLANDS - PGGM to invest in Cyrte
Press reports suggest that Dutch pension fund PGGM will invest EUR 500m in the recently launched TMT fund managed by Cyrte Investments.
UK - UHY Hacker Young appoints new head of corporate finance
Peter Petyt has been named the new Head of Corporate Finance at the London office of top twenty accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young.
FRANCE - Amboise Investissement to float
Amboise Investissement has announced the filing, on 24 February 2006, of its reference prospectus with AMF, the French financial markets authority (Autorité des Marchés Financiers).
FRANCE - Eyeka announces $5m Series-A round
Eyeka, a provider of mobile video and image service applications, announced today that it has completed a $5m Series-A round. Ventech Capital, based in Paris, invested $3.2m and DN Capital, based in London, provided $1.8m. This marks the second partnership...
UK - Darlington wins Rainmaker award
Christopher Darlington of Hawkpoint Partners has won HgCapitalтs Rainmaker of the Year award. During 2005 Darlington completed four deals.
UK - KCL rebrands as August Capital
Kleinwort Capital Ltd announced today that it will change its name to August Equity, effective immediately. Accompanying the name change is the release of a new company logo, which will begin appearing on the website (www.augustequity.com) and all company...
POLAND - Mid Europa completes Aster buyout
Mid Europa Partners, through its Emerging Europe Convergence Fund II, L.P., has completed the acquisition of Aster, a leading provider of media and communication services in Poland. The agreement to acquire Aster from Hicks Muse Tate & Furst was first...
THE NETHERLANDS - VNU accepts EUR 7.5bn LBO offer
VNU NV, a leading global information and media company, and Valcon Acquisition BV, a holding company newly incorporated in the Netherlands, announced today that they have agreed to a public offer for VNU that values the company’s equity at EUR 7.5bn,...
UK - Kleinwort announces two new investors
Kleinwort Capital Limited has announced that it has two new investors on board т Swiss-based Partners Group and F&C Private Equity Trust Plc.
GERMANY - Wellington invests in GIGA TV
Wellington Partners is investing in GIGA TV in connection with a round of funding totaling EUR 3m. This will enable the company to expand its position as the largest digital TV network for the gaming and e-sports community in Europe.
FRANCE - Motorola Ventures invests in IP over broadcast media provider
Motorola Ventures has injected EUR 2m for a third round of funding in UDcast. The investor joins existing shareholders CDC Entreprises Innovation, SGAM AI PE, I-Source, Baytech Venture and Mitsubishi Venture which collectively provided EUR 8.8m in two...
FRANCE - Stampede over Colony's Buffalo Grill stakes
France’s largest shareholder action group is urging the AMF (autorité des marchés financiers) to refuse Colony Capital’s attempt to delist Buffalo Grill. Colette Neuville, head of Association pour la Défense des Actionnaires Minoritaires (ADAM), opposes...
ESTONIA - MartinsonTrigon launches TVCorp for international TV projects
MartinsonTrigon, the Baltic venture capital fund, has agreed to invest EUR 1.4m into OÜ TVCorp, a holding company which will be involved in various international TV projects.
EUROPE - LBO market smashes EUR 100bn barrier
2005 saw further significant growth in the European buyout market with the total value of deals topping EUR 100bn for the first time ever, according to the latest European Buyout Review due to be published in March 2006 by Incisive Media in association...
UK - Real estate M&A to increase, says GT
The volume and value of mid-market M&A in the real estate sector has increased significantly over the past year, according to the latest Thomson Financial statistics analysed by Grant Thornton Corporate Finance. Whilst the number of mid-market deals in...
GERMANY - Sale of ProSiebenSat.1 falls through
Germany's Commission to Investigate Media Concentration (KEK) has rejected the takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 by Axel Springer. The media regulator made a final decision in January to block the sale by a fiancial consortium led by Saban Capital due to market-share...
UK - Interregnum announces acquisition and fundraising
Subject, amongst other things, to obtaining shareholder approval at an EGM, the board of Interregnum has raised a total of ТЃ10m (before expenses) via a placing of 151,515,152 shares with institutional investors at a share price of 6.6 pence to increase...
DENMARK - MACH acquires venture-backed End2End
MACH has today announced its acquisition of Aalborg-based End2End. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
UK - Mobile media solutions company Kodime backed by The Capital Fund
Kodime Ltd, an award-winning provider of mobile media software and services to property marketers, the music business and marketing agencies, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from The Capital Fund.
UK - NewMedia Spark invests in Skinkers
NewMedia Spark has invested ТЃ2m in Skinkers, an e-mail software developer, according to reports.
UK - IBIS Capital launches £30m VCT
IBIS Capital, the specialist media corporate finance and investment business, is joining forces with a team of media and investment management professionals to launch a ТЃ30m fund focusing on smaller private UK media companies.
UK - HMV rejects first Permira offer
The music and bookshop group HMV has rejected a ТЃ762m bid from the Permira, according to a report in The Independent.
UK - Actionality receives seed funding from Doughty Hanson
Actionality, an emerging leader of automated in-game advertising and marketing solutions for the mobile market, has announced that it has secured seed financing from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.