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LITHUANIA - MartinsonTrigon acquires 100% of shares in MicroLink Lietuva
AS Martinson Trigon, a Tallinn-based investment fund, has acquired 100% of MicroLink Lietuva and IT training company Baltijos Kompiuteriu Akademija (BKA) from Lietuvos Telekomas.
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...
FRANCE - European Capital buys motorcycle specialist
European Capital has today announced the completion of its one stop buyout of Action Sport Holding, a leading distributor of motorcycle and bicycle gear and accessories in France. The group’s investment takes the form of senior term loans, mezzanine...
FRANCE - AXA goes it alone with eBuyClub
AXA Private Equity is sole investor in the recent EUR 2m round of funding in Plebicom. Founded in December 2000, following its incubation by Teamlog, Plebicom manages eBuyClub - an online retailing club. It offers its 300,000 members reductions on products...
FRANCE - Telisma receives further EUR 3m funding
Telisma has completed a EUR 3m fourth round of funding, via its existing investors. Ventech and Innovacom have each invested EUR 1m in the company, while 3i and AGF Private Equity have take equal stakes in the balance. As a result of this third round...
UK - Wragge launches PE funds team
Wragge & Co LLP has launched a private equity funds team with the appointment of funds expert Felicity Cole. Felicity joins Wragge & Co from Conyers Dill & Pearman in Bermuda where she headed the Cayman Islands practice. She will work with private equity,...
THE NETHERLANDS - Advent opens shop in Amsterdam
Advent International, the global private equity firm, today announced the opening of its Amsterdam office. The office will be led by Amsterdam-based Teartse Schaper, who will be supported from London by John Singer, an Advent managing director. The Amsterdam...
UK - Kennet Venture Partners hires new director
Kennet Venture Partners has announced that it has appointed Eileen Tanghal as director. She will be based in the company’s London office.
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 £10m (before expenses) via a placing of 151,515,152 shares with institutional investors at a share price of 6.6 pence to increase...
FRANCE - Naxicap funds La Fée
Naxicap Partners has financed a EUR 1.5m first round of funding in La Fée through its funds BP Développement and FIP Banque Populaire Proximité Sud-Est. Company founders, Jean-Michel Calsat and Jean-Pierre Braillard, hold the balance. The transaction...
GERMANY - NORD Holding buys wire mesh specialist
In a management buyout involving the management of the company and the Bavarian Beteiligungsgesellschaft, NORD Holding Unternehmensbeteiligungsgesellschaft has acquired Rhodius GmbH domiciled in Weissenburg (Bavaria), Laage (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)...
SPAIN - Catalana d'Iniciatives acquires Cadena Q
Catalana d’Iniciatives has led the EUR 20m MBI of the clothing retail chain Cadena Q. Other investors include the private equity fund EBN Vaccaria FCR, the founding family of Cadena Q and two external executives. Catalana and EBN invested EUR 10m and...
GERMANY - Ventizz invests in electronic manufacturing services firm
Ventizz Capital Partners Advisory AG has taken an undisclosed majority interest in AEMtec GmbH through its latest fund, Ventizz Capital Fund III.
UK - Somerfield looks to revive ailing Kwik Save chain
The Apax-led consortium in charge of Somerfield wants to radically restructure its ailing Kwik Save chain, which is likely to result in the sale or closure of many of the 500 stores, say press reports.
GERMANY - Halder exits Konrad Hornschuh AG
Halder has sold its stake in Konrad Hornschuch AG, which it acquired in 2001, to DZ Equity Partner GmbH, Frankfurt, and L-EA Private Equity GmbH, Karlsruhe, via a secondary buyout. The management of Hornschuch will increase its shareholding as a result...
UK - Owner Venture Managers backs IT MBI
Owner Venture Managers has originated and backed the MBI of Elcon Information Technology Ltd. The value of the deal is undisclosed.
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.
SWEDEN - Nordic Capital and Accent to float KappAhl
Swedish fashion retailer KappAhl, owned by Nordic Capital and Accent Equity Partners, has announced plans to list on Stockholm Stock Exchange on 23 February.
NORWAY - Ferd Venture's Mohive launches new e-learning system
Mohive, backed by Ferd Venture, has launched a new version of its e-learning publishing system, Mohive Toolbox.
UK - South West Ventures Fund invests £250,000 in Covalent Software
Taunton-based Covalent Software has secured £250,000 from the South West Ventures Fund, managed by YFM Venture Finance.
UK - Duke Street Capital buys global engineering firm
Duke Street Capital (DSC) has agreed to acquire Deloro Stellite from Vision Capital for an undisclosed sum.
GERMANY - capiton buys grocery logistics specialist
capiton has invested in the Steco Group as part of an expansion and replacement financing. Steco is a logistics services company, that operates a pool of reusable plastic crates for the grocery industry, mainly used for the transport of fruits and vegetables....