Sector
Verdane invest €5m in web tools developer Vaadin
Nordic growth investor joins a group of three previous backers for the Finnish company
Deal in Focus: Finint bets on green with BP-CVS merger
An in-depth look at the GP’s strategies to cope in a highly fragmented sector following the merger of BP and CVS
Socadif, Brie Picardie, Idia in €15m round for Acrelec
Socadif, Brie Picardie Expansion and Idia Capital Investissement are all Crédit Agricole subsidiaries
Omnes and BPI support Ducatillon's €7.6m BIMBO
Omnes Capital's small-cap investment team led the GP's efforts in the deal
YFM, 3i sell Go Outdoors to JD Sports in £128.3m deal
Exit comes 18 years after YFM's initial investment and five years after 3i's
Karmijn Kapitaal leads €10m round for Five Degrees
Karmijn invested via its €90m vehicle Karmijn Kapitaal Fund II
GHO holds €660m final close for maiden fund
Healthcare-focused GP will target European and North American assets with international growth plans
BayBG in €6m AMW round
AMW recently acquired an additional site in order to build a new production facility
Daphni and Kima Ventures in €4m round for Agricool
Daphni prodived half the round and was joined by Kima Ventures and business angels on the round
Growth Capital Partners backs AMG
AMG's senior management team invested alongside Growth Capital Partners
Abris to de-list Graal from Warsaw bourse
Following a bidding process begun in August, CEE-focused Abris will take the Polish fish processor private
Deal in Focus: Ardian buys Equistone's Unither for €675m
Deal for French pharmaceuticals company will see the buisness enter its fourth consecutive period under PE ownership
Casual dining: Still private equity’s plat du jour?
Taylor Wessing's Ed Waldron and Ed Story discuss the challenges and opportunities facing a sector traditionally highly prized by private equity
Advent makes £221.5m bid for Brammer
Industrial components company's board recommends approval of the offer valuing shares at 165 pence
Target invests €2.2m in ArangoDB
GP currently invests from its second fund, a €113m vehicle
Mobeus invests £4m in Biosite
Investment will support the development of new site management tools
Ergon buys Deutsche Intensivpflege from Delta
Belgian family office Sofina and several other LPs invested alongside Ergon
SEP's Skyscanner sold to Ctrip in £1.4bn deal
Sale of so-called EUnicorn values the travel search engine at around 70x its 2015 EBITDA
Enterprise Investors makes 7x on €533m Profi exit to Mid Europa
CEE-focused private equity firm invested €76m over the course of its investment
EdRip takes minority stake in NetCo
French GP made the investment through its €300m Winch Capital 3 vehicle
eCapital invests in BrandMaker
Deal marks the sixth investment by eCapital's fourth fund, which has a €100m target
Siparex, Re-Sources, Nord Croissance in €5m round for Alive
Re-Sources and Nord Croissance had hitherto provided €1.5m in funding to Alive
BPI, Piton, Alven et al. in €7m round for MeilleursAgents.com
Alven Capital entered the group in 2009, providing €1m as part of a €2m expansion round
Deal in Focus: Omnes reaps 5x in Nomios exit to Infradata
GP oversaw a doubling of the IT company's revenues during its three-year holding period, leading it to make an exit ahead of schedule