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NVM reaps 2x on Silverwing sale to Eddyfi
Oil & gas testing business undertook an international expansion strategy
Tech startups power Italian recovery
Over the past few years, tech startups have accounted for an increasingly larger proportion of the Italian private equity landscape
Quadrivio reaps £12.8m in Directa Plus IPO
Venture capital fund exits the business after a seven-year holding period
Safinco takes 24% stake in Gimv's Vandermoortele
Family shareholders will regain full ownership of the business following the transaction
Trilantic's Gamenet buys Intralot
Deal sees the Greek listed gaming operator Intralot acquire a 20% stake in the merged group
Invision buys Parkresort Rheinfelden
Business recorded revenues of CHF 14.8m for the financial year 2014
Innova, HarbourVest et al. in €100m Benestra exit
SBO means a final exit for the PE consortium that purchased central European telco GTS in 2008
LDC backs £22m MBO of Magicard
ID card manufacturer will invest in marketing and international expansion
CapMan exits Esperi Care to ICG
Exit ends the six-year ownership of the care provider by CapManтs Buyout division
Bain-backed Maisons du Monde in €769m IPO
Bain Capital acquired a majority stake in the French home decoration group for €680m in 2013
Rutland's Walstead picks up Let's Print
Rutland-backed Walstead expands further into Europe with the тЌ175m acquisition of Let's Print
Menu Next Door gathers €1.75m in seed round
Belgian startup recently launched its activity in London, complementing Paris and Brussels
Benchmark in Contentful's $13m round
Contentful will use the fresh capital to open a San Francisco office this year
Ardian-backed Laboratoires Anios expands with Inibsa Hospital
Transaction marks the fourth bolt-on since Ardian invested in the company in 2013
LDC lists Joules on AIM
LDC makes ТЃ53m and scores a multiple of 2.4x, reinvests for a 7% stake
Sherpa raises €5.8m series-A from Alma Mundi
GP invested through its Alma Mundi Innvierte Fund, alongside several private investors
Cherry Ventures backs TourRadar's $6m series-A
Cherry Ventures and Hoxton Ventures join existing backers AWS and Speedinvest
PE-backed Argenta buys Somed for €30.4m
Private equity backers Motion Equity and KKR provided funding to support the transaction
Goldman Sachs-backed Dong prices IPO at up to DKK 106bn
Energy company will make Danish financial market history as largest-ever listing
LFPI acquires CMG Sports Club from 21 Partners
French fitness group CMG spent eight years under 21 CP's ownership
IK in €300-350m deal to acquire Marle from Carlyle
IK is acquiring Marle through its buyout fund IK VII, closed on €1.4bn in October 2013
Albion Ventures et al. sell Haemostatix to Ergomed
Ergomed pays an initial consideration of ТЃ8m, with an extra contingent of ТЃ20m
Foresight invests £1.9m in Agar Scientific
Stanstead-based Agar manufactures electron microscopy products
Gamaya raises CHF 3.2m from VI Partners et al.
Startup is a spinout from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne